Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/11/2020

Posted on March 11, 2020

Father, Etc. At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh. They’re an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. When I’ve comprehended the mind of a certain person, I understand: ‘This venerable would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of their father. … (To be expanded as in SN 17.37.) brother … sister … son … daughter … wife.’ But some time later I see them tell a deliberate lie because their mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #38–43. Father  #Etc. 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/10/2020

Posted on March 10, 2020

Mother At Sāvatthī. “Possessions, honor, and popularity are brutal, bitter, and harsh. They’re an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. When I’ve comprehended the mind of a certain person, I understand: ‘This venerable would not tell a deliberate lie even for the sake of their mother.’ But some time later I see them tell a deliberate lie because their mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. So brutal are possessions, honor, and popularity—bitter and harsh, an obstacle to reaching the supreme sanctuary. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #37. Mother 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/09/2020

Posted on March 9, 2020

Prince Ajātasattu supplied devadatta with 500 carts of offerings, leading to his downfall.Near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground. Now at that time Prince Ajātasattu was going with five hundred carts in the morning and the evening to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, “Sir, Prince Ajātasattu is going with five hundred carts in the morning and the evening to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #36. Five Hundred Carts 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 03/08/2020

Posted on March 8, 2020

Material possessions, honor, and praise led to Devadatta’s downfall, like the fruit of a plantain.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left. There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta: “Possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall. It’s like a banana tree … or a bamboo … or a reed, all of which bear fruit to their own ruin and downfall … It’s like a mule, which becomes pregnant to its own ruin and downfall. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 17  #4. The Fourth Chapter  #35. Shortly After He Left 

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