Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/27/2020

Posted on January 27, 2020

The Buddha recounts how peoples of the past had different names for the mountains of Rājagaha. Yet now they have all goneAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, “Mendicants!” “Venerable sir,” they replied. The Buddha said this: “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 15  #2. The Second Chapter  #20. Mount Vepulla 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/26/2020

Posted on January 26, 2020

It is not easy to find a being who has not been your daughter.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your daughter. Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 15  #2. The Second Chapter  #19. Daughter 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/21/2020

Posted on January 21, 2020

It is not easy to find a being who has not been your mother.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. … It’s not easy to find a sentient being who in all this long time has not previously been your mother. Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 15  #2. The Second Chapter  #14. Mother 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/20/2020

Posted on January 20, 2020

The blood you have shed from being slaughtered or beheaded in transmigration is greater than the waters in the oceans.Near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove. Then thirty mendicants from Pāvā went to the Buddha. All of them lived in the wilderness, ate only alms-food, wore rag robes, and owned just three robes; yet they all still had fetters. They bowed to the Buddha and sat down to one side. Then it occurred to the Buddha, “These thirty mendicants from Pāvā live in the wilderness, eat only alms-food, wear rag robes, and own just three robes; yet they all still have fetters. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 15  #2. The Second Chapter  #13. Thirty Mendicants 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/19/2020

Posted on January 19, 2020

When you see someone happy, know that you too have experienced that.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. … When you see someone in a good way, in a happy state, you should conclude: ‘In all this long time, we too have undergone the same thing.’ Why is that? Transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 15  #2. The Second Chapter  #12. In a Good Way 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 01/18/2020

Posted on January 18, 2020

When you see someone suffer, know that you too have experienced that.At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving. When you see someone in a sorry state, in distress, you should conclude: ‘In all this long time, we too have undergone the same thing.’ Why is that? [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 15  #2. The Second Chapter  #11. In a Sorry State