Material possessions, honor, and praise cut to the bone.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … They cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until they reach the marrow and stay pressing there. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/29/2020
Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand possessions, honor, and popularity, their origin, their cessation, and the path that leads to their cessation … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/28/2020
Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand the origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/27/2020
Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand the gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity. I don’t regard them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don’t live having realized it with their own insight. There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand the gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/26/2020
A laywoman should wish that if her daughter remains in the household life, she should be like Khujjuttarā and Veḷukaṇḍakiyā. But if she becomes a nun, may material possessions, honor, and praise not come to her!At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … A faithful laywoman with a dear and beloved only daughter would rightly appeal to her, ‘My darling, please be like the laywomen Khujjuttarā and Veḷukaṇṭakī, Nanda’s mother.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/25/2020
A laywoman should wish that if her son remains in the household life, he should be like Citta and Hatthaka. But if he becomes a monk, may material possessions, honor, and praise not come to him!At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … A faithful laywoman with a dear and beloved only son would rightly appeal to him, ‘My darling, please be like the householder Citta and Hatthaka of Aḷavī.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/24/2020
Material possessions, honor, and praise can be even more tempting than the finest lady in the land.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Even if you’re alone with the finest lady in the land she might not occupy your mind, but possessions, honor and popularity would still occupy your mind. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/23/2020
Material possessions, honor, and praise can be even more tempting than a woman.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Even if you’re alone with a female she might not occupy your mind, but possessions, honor and popularity would still occupy your mind. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/22/2020
Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, which can corrupt the mind even of a pure mendicant.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when I’ve comprehended the mind of a certain person, I understand: ‘This venerable would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of a gold coin.’ … ‘… for the sake of a hundred gold coins.’ … ‘… for the sake of a gold doubloon.’ … ‘… for the sake of a hundred gold doubloons.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/21/2020
Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, which can corrupt the mind even of a pure mendicant.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … When I’ve comprehended the mind of a certain person, I understand: ‘This venerable would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of a silver bowl filled with gold powder.’ But some time later I see them tell a deliberate lie because their mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity.
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