Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the imprudent with the imprudent … uneducated … witless … prudent… educated… wise… imprudent … lazy … witless … prudent… imprudent … unmindful … witless … prudent…”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/18/2019
Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the shameless with the shameless … imprudent … witless … … shameless … uneducated … witless … … shameless … lazy … witless … … shameless … unmindful … witless …”
Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/17/2019
Those of bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the faithless with the faithless, the shameless with the shameless, the witless with the witless, the faithful with the faithful, the conscientious with the conscientious, and the wise with the wise. In the past … In the future … At present, too, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/16/2019
The faithless and those of other bad qualities associate together, while those of good qualities associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element: the faithless with the faithless, the shameless with the shameless, the imprudent with the imprudent, the uneducated with the uneducated, the lazy with the lazy, the unmindful with the unmindful, and the witless with the witless. In the past, too, sentient beings came together and converged because of an element.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/15/2019
People of poor character associate together, while people of good character associate together. Illustrated with similes and verses.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element. Those who have a bad attitude come together and converge with those who have a bad attitude. In the past … In the future … At present, too, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element. Those who have a bad attitude come together and converge with those who have a bad attitude.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/14/2019
The Buddha points out that each of the great disciples has a retinue of students of a similar character. And the monks in Devadattas’s retinue all have evil wishes.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. Now at that time Venerable Sāriputta was walking meditation together with several mendicants not far from the Buddha. Venerable Mahāmoggallāna was doing likewise, as were Venerable Mahākassapa, Venerable Anuruddha, Venerable Puṇṇa Mantāniputta, Venerable Upāli, Venerable Ānanda, and Devadatta.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/13/2019
People of poor character associate together, while people of good character associate together.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sentient beings come together and converge because of an element. Those who have a bad attitude come together and converge with those who have a bad attitude. Those who have a good attitude come together and converge with those who have a good attitude. In the past, too, sentient beings came together and converged because of an element.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/12/2019
When unenlightened people have the view that certain people are Buddhas, this is due to ignorance.At one time the Buddha was staying at Nādika in the brick house. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: “Mendicants, an element gives rise to a perception, a view, and a thought.” When he said this, Venerable Kaccāna said to the Buddha, “Sir, regarding those who are not fully awakened Buddhas, there is a view that they are in fact fully awakened Buddhas.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/11/2019
Thoughts of sensuality, ill-will, and delusion arise due to a series of causes.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts arise for a reason, not without reason. And how do sensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts arise for a reason, not without reason? The element of sensuality gives rise to sensual perceptions. Sensual perceptions give rise to sensual thoughts. Sensual thoughts give rise to sensual desires. Sensual desires give rise to sensual passions.
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/10/2019
A rare group of seven elements: light, beauty, the four formless states, and the attainment of cessation. Each of these is known due to the negation of something: light vs. darkness, beauty vs. ugliness, and so on. At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these seven elements. What seven? The element of light, the element of beauty, the element of the dimension of infinite space, the element of the dimension of infinite consciousness, the element of the dimension of nothingness, the element of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, and the element of the cessation of perception and feeling.
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