Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/24/2019

Posted on December 24, 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: those who kill living creatures with those who kill living creatures, those who steal … commit sexual misconduct … lie … consume alcoholic drinks that cause negligence … Those who refrain from killing living creatures … who refrain from stealing … who refrain from sexual misconduct … who refrain from lying … those who refrain from consuming alcoholic drinks that cause negligence with those who refrain from consuming alcoholic drinks that cause negligence. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #25. The Five Precepts 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/23/2019

Posted on December 23, 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 … shameless … imprudent … unethical … witless … The faithful with the faithful … conscientious … prudent… ethical … and the wise with the wise.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #24. Unethical 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/22/2019

Posted on December 22, 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 … shameless … imprudent … lacking immersion … witless … The faithful with the faithful … conscientious … prudent… possessing immersion … and the wise with the wise.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #3. Ways of Performing Deeds  #23. Lacking Immersion 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/21/2019

Posted on December 21, 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 lazy with the lazy … unmindful … witless … energetic… mindful… wise…” (All these should be treated in terms of the past, future, and present.)

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #22. Beginning With the Lazy 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/20/2019

Posted on December 20, 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 uneducated with the uneducated … lazy … witless … learned… uneducated … unmindful … witless … learned… mindful… wise…”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #21. Beginning With the Uneducated 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/19/2019

Posted on December 19, 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 imprudent with the imprudent … uneducated … witless … prudent… educated… wise… imprudent … lazy … witless … prudent… imprudent … unmindful … witless … prudent…”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #20. Beginning With Imprudence 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/18/2019

Posted on December 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 …”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #19. Beginning With the Shameless 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/17/2019

Posted on December 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. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #18. Beginning With the Faithless 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/16/2019

Posted on December 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. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #17. Faithless 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 12/15/2019

Posted on December 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. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 14  #2. The Second Chapter  #16. With Verses