Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/28/2019

Posted on December 28, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: those of wrong view with those of wrong view … wrong thought … wrong speech … wrong action … wrong livelihood … wrong effort … wrong mindfulness … wrong immersion … wrong knowledge … wrong freedom … Those who have right view … right thought … right speech … right action … right livelihood … right effort … right mindfulness … right immersion … right knowledge … right freedom with those who have right freedom. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/27/2019

Posted on December 27, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: those of wrong view with those of wrong view … wrong thought … wrong speech … wrong action … wrong livelihood … wrong effort … wrong mindfulness … wrong immersion … Those who have right view … right thought … right speech … right action … right livelihood … right effort … right mindfulness … right immersion with those who have right immersion. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #28. The Eightfold Path 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/26/2019

Posted on December 26, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: those who kill living creatures with those who kill living creatures, those who steal … commit sexual misconduct … lie … speak divisively … speak harshly … talk nonsense … are covetous … are malicious … have wrong view … Those who refrain from killing living creatures … who refrain from stealing … who refrain from sexual misconduct … who refrain from lying … who refrain from divisive speech … who refrain from harsh speech … who refrain from talking nonsense … are not covetous … are not malicious … have right view with those who have right view. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #27. Ten Ways of Performing Deeds 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/25/2019

Posted on December 25, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: those who kill living creatures with those who kill living creatures, those who steal … commit sexual misconduct … lie … speak divisively … speak harshly … talk nonsense … Those who refrain from killing living creatures. … who refrain from stealing … who refrain from sexual misconduct … who refrain from lying … who refrain from divisive speech … who refrain from harsh speech … who refrain from talking nonsense with those who refrain from talking nonsense. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #26. Seven Ways of Performing Deeds 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/24/2019

Posted on December 24, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: those who kill living creatures with those who kill living creatures, those who steal … commit sexual misconduct … lie … consume alcoholic drinks that cause negligence … Those who refrain from killing living creatures … who refrain from stealing … who refrain from sexual misconduct … who refrain from lying … those who refrain from consuming alcoholic drinks that cause negligence with those who refrain from consuming alcoholic drinks that cause negligence. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #25. The Five Precepts 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/23/2019

Posted on December 23, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the faithless with the faithless … shameless … imprudent … unethical … witless … The faithful with the faithful … conscientious … prudent… ethical … and the wise with the wise.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #24. Unethical 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/22/2019

Posted on December 22, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the faithless with the faithless … shameless … imprudent … lacking immersion … witless … The faithful with the faithful … conscientious … prudent… possessing immersion … and the wise with the wise.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #23. Lacking Immersion 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/21/2019

Posted on December 21, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the lazy with the lazy … unmindful … witless … energetic… mindful… wise…” (All these should be treated in terms of the past, future, and present.)

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #22. Beginning With the Lazy 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/20/2019

Posted on December 20, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the uneducated with the uneducated … lazy … witless … learned… uneducated … unmindful … witless … learned… mindful… wise…”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #21. Beginning With the Uneducated 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/19/2019

Posted on December 19, 2019

Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the imprudent with the imprudent … uneducated … witless … prudent… educated… wise… imprudent … lazy … witless … prudent… imprudent … unmindful … witless … prudent…”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #20. Beginning With Imprudence