Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/11/2020

Posted on March 11, 2020

Father, Etc. At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh. They’re an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. 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 their father. … (To be expanded as in SN 17.37.) brother … sister … son … daughter … wife.’ But some time later I see them tell a deliberate lie because their mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #38–43. Father  #Etc. 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/10/2020

Posted on March 10, 2020

Mother At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh. They’re an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. 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 their mother.’ But some time later I see them tell a deliberate lie because their mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity—bitter and harsh, an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #37. Mother 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/09/2020

Posted on March 9, 2020

Prince Ajātasattu supplied devadatta with 500 carts of offerings, leading to his downfall.Near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground. Now at that time Prince Ajātasattu was going with five hundred carts in the morning and the evening to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, “Sir, Prince Ajātasattu is going with five hundred carts in the morning and the evening to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #36. Five Hundred Carts 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/08/2020

Posted on March 8, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise led to Devadatta’s downfall, like the fruit of a plantain.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left. There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta: “Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall. It’s like a banana tree … or a bamboo … or a reed, all of which bear fruit to their own ruin and downfall … It’s like a mule, which becomes pregnant to its own ruin and downfall. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #35. Shortly After He Left 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/07/2020

Posted on January 7, 2020

One who does not understand the four material elements is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand the earth element, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. They don’t understand the water element … fire element … air element … 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. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #39. Ascetics and Brahmins (3rd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/06/2020

Posted on January 6, 2020

One who does not understand the four material elements is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these four elements. What four? The elements of earth, water, fire, and air. There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these four elements’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand these four elements’ origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #38. Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd)