Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/03/2020

Posted on March 3, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise are even a problem for a perfected one, as they interfere with their meditation.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, possessions, honor, and popularity are an obstacle even for a mendicant who is perfected, with defilements ended.” When he said this, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha, “Sir, what do possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct for a mendicant with defilements ended?” “Ānanda, I don’t say that possessions, honor, and popularity obstruct the unshakable freedom of heart. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #30. A Mendicant With Defilements Ended 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/02/2020

Posted on March 2, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise cut to the bone, like a rope.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … They cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until they reach the marrow and stay pressing there. Suppose a strong man was to twist a tough horse-hair rope around your shin and tighten it. It would cut through the outer skin, the inner skin, the flesh, sinews, and bones, until it reached the marrow and stayed pressing there. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #29. A Rope 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/29/2020

Posted on February 29, 2020

Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand possessions, honor, and popularity, their origin, their cessation, and the path that leads to their cessation … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #27. Ascetics and Brahmins (3rd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/28/2020

Posted on February 28, 2020

Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand the origin, ending, gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity … There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #26. Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/27/2020

Posted on February 27, 2020

Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand the gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity. I don’t regard them as true ascetics and brahmins. 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. There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand the gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to possessions, honor, and popularity. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #25. Ascetics and Brahmins 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/26/2020

Posted on February 26, 2020

A laywoman should wish that if her daughter remains in the household life, she should be like Khujjuttarā and Veḷukaṇḍakiyā. But if she becomes a nun, may material possessions, honor, and praise not come to her!At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … A faithful laywoman with a dear and beloved only daughter would rightly appeal to her, ‘My darling, please be like the laywomen Khujjuttarā and Veḷukaṇṭakī, Nanda’s mother. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #24. An Only Daughter 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/25/2020

Posted on February 25, 2020

A laywoman should wish that if her son remains in the household life, he should be like Citta and Hatthaka. But if he becomes a monk, may material possessions, honor, and praise not come to him!At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … A faithful laywoman with a dear and beloved only son would rightly appeal to him, ‘My darling, please be like the householder Citta and Hatthaka of Aḷavī. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #23. An Only Son 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 02/24/2020

Posted on February 24, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise can be even more tempting than the finest lady in the land.At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal … Even if you’re alone with the finest lady in the land she might not occupy your mind, but possessions, honor and popularity would still occupy your mind. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #3. The Third Chapter  #22. The Finest Lady in the Land