Words of the Buddha
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Reflection of the Day
“I do not see any other form that so completely obsesses a man’s mind as the form of a woman.”
— AN 1.1·
Fire: Investigating Recurrent Experience
The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.
Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.
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See more →After the Buddha’s foot is cut by a stone splinter, he endures the severe bodily pain mindfully and lies down in the lion’s posture. Māra approaches to taunt him for sleeping, and the Buddha replies in verse, explaining why one whose dart is removed sleeps in peace.
Seeing junior bhikkhus sleeping until sunrise, the Buddha urges them to train in sense restraint, moderation in eating, and wakefulness.
A well-known bhikkhu who encourages inappropriate bodily action, verbal action, and mental qualities practices for the detriment and unhappiness of many people, whereas one who encourages appropriate bodily action, verbal action, and mental qualities practices for the welfare and happiness of gods and humans.
One who possesses three qualities without abandoning three stains—immorality, jealousy, and stinginess—is placed in hell just as if carried and set down there, while one who is virtuous, free from jealousy, and generous after abandoning those three stains is placed in heaven.
Endowed with bodily, verbal, and mental misconduct, an immature person maintains themselves in a maimed and damaged state and accumulates much demerit; endowed with good bodily, verbal, and mental conduct, a wise person of integrity maintains themselves unmaimed and accumulates much merit.
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