Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/19/2020

Posted on February 19, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, and attachment to them leads to a bad rebirth.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Take a case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by honor. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. Take another case where I see a certain person whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by lack of honor. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #10. With Verses 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/18/2020

Posted on February 18, 2020

A mendicant who is proud on account of their material possessions, honor, and praise is never at peace, like a bird in a gale.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … High in the sky there are gale-force winds blowing. Any bird that flies there is flung about by those gale-force winds. Their feet go one way, their wings another, their head another, and their body another. In the same way, take a certain monk whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #9. Gale-force Winds 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/17/2020

Posted on February 17, 2020

A mendicant who is proud on account of their material possessions, honor, and praise is never at peace, like a mangy jackal.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Mendicants, did you hear an old jackal howling at the crack of dawn?” “Yes, sir.” “That old jackal has the disease called mange. He’s not happy in his den, or at the root of a tree, or out in the open. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #8. A Jackal 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/16/2020

Posted on February 16, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, like a poison dart.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Who should be pierced by a poisoned arrow? A trainee who comes into possessions, honor, and popularity before they achieve their heart’s desire. ‘Arrow’ is a term for possessions, honor, and popularity. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #7. A Poisoned Arrow 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/15/2020

Posted on February 15, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, like a lightning strike.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Who should be struck by lightning? A trainee who comes into possessions, honor, and popularity before they achieve their heart’s desire. ‘Lightning strike’ is a term for possessions, honor, and popularity. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #6. A Bolt of Lightning 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/14/2020

Posted on February 14, 2020

A mendicant who is proud on account of their material possessions, honor, and praise is like a dung beetle proud of their ball of dung.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Suppose there was a dung-eating beetle full of dung, stuffed with dung, and before her was a huge pile of dung. She’d look down on other beetles, thinking: ‘For I am a dung-eating beetle full of dung, stuffed with dung, and before me is a huge pile of dung. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #5. A Dung Beetle 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/13/2020

Posted on February 13, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, which snare you like a long-haired goat in a briar patch.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Suppose a fleecy sheep was to enter a briar patch. She’d get caught, snagged, and trapped at every turn, coming to ruin. In the same way, take a certain mendicant whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. They robe up in the morning and, taking their bowl and robe, enter the village or town for alms. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #4. A Fleecy Sheep 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/12/2020

Posted on February 12, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, which hit you like a harpoon hits a careless turtle.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Once upon a time in a certain lake there was a large family of turtles that had lived there for a long time. Then one of the turtles said to another, ‘My dear turtle, don’t you go to that place.’ But that turtle did go to that place, and a hunter pierced her with a harpoon. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #3. A Turtle 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/11/2020

Posted on February 11, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, which catch you like fish on a hook.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh. They’re an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. Suppose a fisherman was to cast a baited hook into a deep lake. Seeing the bait, a fish would swallow it. And so the fish that swallowed the hook would meet with tragedy and disaster, and the fisherman can do what he wants with it. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #2. A Hook 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/10/2020

Posted on February 10, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are terrible things, obstructing spiritual progress.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh. They’re an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. So you should train like this: ‘We will give up arisen possessions, honor, and popularity, and we won’t let them occupy our minds. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #1. The First Chapter  #1. Brutal