Tikkhapaññā☁

As we try to integrate the Buddha’s teachings into our daily lives, we can reflect on the following questions:

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If Right Intent isn’t accessed, the mind gets snagged on the moods and thoughts that pass on the surface. Then we don’t recognize the basic goodness in ourselves and ...

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Fading away is said to be the best of all things whether conditioned or unconditioned ...

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Sadness is actually not depressing. We can become depressed by wanting it to be otherwise, ...

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Right Effort involves work. It’s a steering of the mind. You are recognizing the unwholesome, letting it go, recognizing the wholesome and feeding it, maintaining it, keeping it in being – there is work going on. The Eightfold Path is a path of action.
~Ajahn Amaro

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Buddhist Romanticism is a result of a very natural human tendency: When presented with something foreign and new, people tend to see it ...

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If one shows oneself in one way
While actually being otherwise,
What one enjoys is obtained by theft
Like the gains of a cheating gambler.
~SN1.35

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People want to go to Nibbāna but when you tell them that there is nothing there, they begin to have second thoughts. But ...

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A meditation session is the time to put down for a while all of our identities: ...

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‘All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, will become separated from me.’

True or false?

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In the Tatiyavagga, the Buddha says:

One person, mendicants, arises in the world for the hurt and unhappiness of the people, ...

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What is the mind?

The mind doesn’t have any form. That which receives impressions, ...

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When there’s physical birth, notice how it makes us seem separate. We’re not physically joined to each other, are we? ...

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Long is the night to the sleepless;
long is the league to the weary.
Long is worldly existence to fools
who know not the Sublime Truth.
~Dhammapada 60

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Our teacher, Ajahn Chah, taught us to practice with integrity. It means doing the right thing, whether you are alone or with others. You know what you do, even if no one else sees you.
~Ajahn Kalyano

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Mindfulness is the factor that takes up a reference point — such as body or feeling — then surveys it and refers to unbiased awareness:

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What has been attained, and
what can be attained—

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The Pali word sīla originally meant simply conduct. But in the context of the Buddhist spiritual training, the term is used to...

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Foolish people devoid of wisdom
Devote themselves to negligence.
But the wise man guards diligence
As his foremost treasure.

Don't yield to negligence,
Don’t be intimate with sensual delight.
For the diligent ones, meditating,
Attain supreme #happiness.
~SN1.36

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Question: What is the relationship between keeping precepts and the practice of meditation?

Answer: Progress on the Buddha’s path of awakening is possible only when there is harmony between...

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And what is the treasure of discernment/wisdom?

There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones is discerning, endowed with discernment of arising and passing away—noble, penetrating, leading to the right ending of stress.
~AN7.6

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Many people in this world haven’t encountered the Buddhist teachings and don’t know how to meditate or realize its value...

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📡🧡🧡🧡Radiating Pavāraṇā Full Moon mettā:
May all hardships be alleviated.
May all misfortunes be averted.
May good triumph over evil.
May universal kindness and harmlessness prevail.
May the world be healed and whole again.

:Exiting the 3-month Rains Retreat.🙏

Sādhu anumodāna 🙏

Sādhu anumodāna, thank you, John 🙏😊

If we're talking about realms of existence, yes, humans would be higher than animals.

But in this case, from the perspective of sīla & mettā, in the practice of harmlessness & goodwill, all living beings are equally entitled to life regardless of shape, size or realm of existence.

Hope this helps.