Welcome to Daily Digital Devotion

This website is meant to be your source for a daily scripture to read and contemplate. Regardless of religion there is something we can all gain by reading scripture daily. Let us rejoice in the universe! Below are the most recent posts to start your journey.

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/19/2020

Posted on October 19, 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. Then Venerable Rādha went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: “Rādha, I will teach you the things that should be completely understood, complete understanding, and the person who has completely understood. Listen and pay close attention, I will speak. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 23  #1. About Māra  #4. Should Be Completely Understood 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 10/19/2020

Posted on October 19, 2020

If there be a controversy between men, and they come… If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that {the judges} may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wickedAnd it shall be, if the wicked man {be} worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. [Read More]
#Christian  #Deuteronomy  #Deuteronomy 25 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/18/2020

Posted on October 18, 2020

Rādha asks the Buddha about the tie or conduit to rebirth, and the Buddha explains in terms of craving for the five aggregates. At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘the cessation of attachment to rebirth’. What is the attachment to rebirth? And what is the cessation of attachment to rebirth?” “Rādha, any desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form; and any attraction, grasping, mental fixation, insistence, and underlying tendencies—this is called the attachment to rebirth. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 23  #1. About Māra  #3. Attachment To Rebirth 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 10/18/2020

Posted on October 18, 2020

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first… And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more seaAnd I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God {is} with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, {and be} their God. [Read More]
#Christian  #Revelation  #Revelation 21 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/17/2020

Posted on October 17, 2020

Rādha asks the Buddha about a the term “sentient being”, and the Buddha explains in terms of craving for the five aggregates. He compares such craving to a child playing with sandcastles.At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, Venerable Rādha said to the Buddha: “Sir, they speak of this thing called a ‘sentient being’. How is a sentient being defined?” “Rādha, when you cling, strongly cling, to desire, greed, relishing, and craving for form, then a being is spoken of. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 23  #1. About Māra  #2. Sentient Beings 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 10/17/2020

Posted on October 17, 2020

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness,… Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock {whence} ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit {whence} ye are diggedLook unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah {that} bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. [Read More]
#Christian  #Isaiah  #Isaiah 51 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/16/2020

Posted on October 16, 2020

Rādha asks the Buddha about Māra, and the Buddha explains in terms of the five aggregates. Seeing in this way leads to freedom.At Sāvatthī. Then Venerable Rādha went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘Māra’. How is Māra defined?” “When there is form, Rādha, there may be Māra, or the murderer, or the murdered. So you should see form as Māra, the murderer, the murdered, the diseased, the abscess, the dart, the misery, the miserable. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 23  #1. About Māra  #1. About Māra 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 10/16/2020

Posted on October 16, 2020

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from… When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, {and} Israel his dominionThe sea saw {it}, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, {and} the little hills like lambs. What {ailed} thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, {that} thou wast driven back? [Read More]
#Christian  #Psalm  #Psalm 114-115 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 10/15/2020

Posted on October 15, 2020

When Ānanda wants to go on retreat, the Buddha advises him to contemplate the aggregatesAt Sāvatthī. Then Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Sir, may the Buddha please teach me Dhamma in brief. When I’ve heard it, I’ll live alone, withdrawn, diligent, keen, and resolute.” “What do you think, Ānanda? Is form permanent or impermanent?” “Impermanent, sir.” “But if it’s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness? [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #15. Views  #159. With Ānanda 

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 10/15/2020

Posted on October 15, 2020

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and… When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give {it} in her hand, and send her out of his house{some…: Heb. matter of nakedness} {divorcement: Heb. cutting off} And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's {wife}. [Read More]
#Christian  #Deuteronomy  #Deuteronomy 24