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 11/14/2019

The wanderer Susı̄ma fraudulently enters the Sangha so that the wanderers can learn the secret to the Buddha’s fame and success. Hearing that some mendicants claimed to be perfected, Susīma approaches and asks them if they have developed psychic powers or the formless states, to which they say no. Perplexed, he asks the Buddha, who explains that awakening follows insight into the principles of impermanence and causality. Eventually Susı̄ma confesses his misdeed. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 11/14/2019

And he made the altar of burnt offering {of} shittim… And he made the altar of burnt offering {of} shittim wood: five cubits {was} the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; {it was} foursquare; and three cubits the height thereofAnd he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, {and} the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he {of} brass. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 11/13/2019

Like rivers flowing to the ocean, the factors of dependent origination lead to suffering.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. “Mendicants, when the ocean surges it makes the rivers surge. When the rivers surge they make the streams surge. When the streams surge they make the lakes surge. When the lakes surge they make the ponds surge. In the same way, when ignorance surges it makes choices surge. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 11/13/2019

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is… Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is rightHonour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Servants, be obedient to them that are {your} masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether {he be} bond or free. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 11/12/2019

Venerable Saviṭṭha questions Venerable Musīla about his attainments, and concludes he is an arahant. But Venerable Nārada offers an explanation showing that it is possible to see the Dhamma without having fully realized arahantship.At one time the venerables Musīla, Saviṭṭha, Nārada, and Ānanda were staying near Kosambī in Ghosita’s monastery. Then Venerable Saviṭṭha said to Venerable Musila: “Reverend Musila, apart from faith, preference, oral tradition, reasoned contemplation, or acceptance of a view after consideration, do you know for yourself that rebirth is a condition for old age and death? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 11/12/2019

A wise son {heareth} his father's instruction: but… A wise son {heareth} his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebukeA man shall eat good by the fruit of {his} mouth: but the soul of the transgressors {shall eat} violence. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: {but} he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. The soul of the sluggard desireth, and {hath} nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 11/11/2019

Venerables Mahākoṭṭhita and Sāriputta discuss whether the factors of dependent origination are created by oneself, another, both, or by chance.At one time Venerable Sāriputta and Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita were staying near Benares, in the deer park at Isipatana. Then in the late afternoon, Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita came out of retreat, went to Venerable Sāriputta, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to Sāriputta: “Well, Reverend Sāriputta, are old age and death made by oneself? [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 11/11/2019

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should… These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended{offended: scandalized or, made to stumble} They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 11/10/2019

The right way to investigate inside oneself is to see how suffering is created craving and attachment, stimulated by pleasant experiences.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kurus, near the Kuru town named Kammāsadamma. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: “Mendicants, do you perform inner self-examination?” When he said this, one of the mendicants said to the Buddha, “Sir, I perform inner self-examination. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 11/10/2019

And Bezaleel made the ark {of} shittim wood: two cubits… And Bezaleel made the ark {of} shittim wood: two cubits and a half {was} the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round aboutAnd he cast for it four rings of gold, {to be set} by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. [Read More]