Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/29/2020

Posted on August 29, 2020

Give up desire for the aggregates and they will come to an end.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling … perception … choices … consciousness; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #112. Giving Up Desire (2nd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/28/2020

Posted on August 28, 2020

Give up desire for the aggregates and they will come to an end.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, you should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form. Thus that form will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. You should give up any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for feeling … perception … choices … consciousness. Thus that consciousness will be given up, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #111. Giving Up Desire 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/27/2020

Posted on August 27, 2020

One who truly understand these five aggregates and is freed from them is a perfected one.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. A mendicant comes to be freed by not grasping after truly understanding these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape. Such a mendicant is called a perfected one, with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their own true goal, utterly ended the fetters of rebirth, and is rightly freed through enlightenment. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #110. A Perfected One 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/26/2020

Posted on August 26, 2020

One who truly understand these five aggregates is a stream-enterer.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. A noble disciple comes to truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape. Such a noble disciple is called a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #109. A Stream-Enterer 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/25/2020

Posted on August 25, 2020

Only a true ascetic fully understands the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape … Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand … Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #108. Ascetics (2nd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/24/2020

Posted on August 24, 2020

Only a true ascetic fully understands the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #107. Ascetics (1st) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/23/2020

Posted on August 23, 2020

The aggregates are to be fully understood, ending the defilements is the full understanding of them, and an arahant is the one who has achieved this.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the things that should be completely understood, complete understanding, and the person who has completely understood. Listen … And what things should be completely understood? Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. These are called the things that should be completely understood. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #106. Should Be Completely Understood 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/22/2020

Posted on August 22, 2020

The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths in terms of identity.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you identity, the origin of identity, the cessation of identity, and the practice that leads to the cessation of identity. Listen … And what is identity? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. This is called identity. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #105. Identity 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/21/2020

Posted on August 21, 2020

The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths in terms of suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering. Listen … And what is suffering? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. This is called suffering. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #104. Suffering 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 08/20/2020

Posted on August 20, 2020

The aggregates considered in light of the four noble truths, phrased as “portions” or “sides”.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these four sides. What four? The side of identity, the side of the origin of identity, the side of the cessation of identity, and the side of the practice that leads to the cessation of identity. And what is the side of identity? It should be said: the five grasping aggregates. What five? [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #11. Sides  #103. Sides