Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/27/2020

Posted on June 27, 2020

The Buddha teaches a householder named Soṇa not to be conceited about the five aggregates.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground. Then the householder Soṇa went up to the Buddha … The Buddha said to him: “Soṇa, there are ascetics and brahmins who—based on form, which is impermanent, suffering, and perishable—regard themselves thus: ‘I’m better’, or ‘I’m equal’, or ‘I’m worse’. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/26/2020

Posted on June 26, 2020

The distinction between “five aggregates” and “five grasping aggregates”.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the five aggregates and the five grasping aggregates. Listen … And what are the five aggregates? Any kind of form at all—past, future, or present; internal or external; coarse or fine; inferior or superior; far or near: this is called the aggregate of form. Any kind of feeling at all … Any kind of perception at all … Any kind of choices at all … Any kind of consciousness at all—past, future, or present; internal or external; coarse or fine; inferior or superior; far or near: this is called the aggregate of consciousness. [Read More]
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Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/25/2020

Posted on June 25, 2020

When you identify anything as self, you always identify one or other of the five aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, whatever ascetics and brahmins regard various kinds of things as self, all regard the five grasping aggregates, or one of them. What five? It’s when an uneducated ordinary person has not seen the noble ones, and is neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the noble ones. They’ve not seen good persons, and are neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the good persons. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #5. Be Your Own Island  #47. Ways of Regarding 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/24/2020

Posted on June 24, 2020

Seeing the five aggregates as impermanent, etc., leads to letting go of views and ultimately to freedom.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, form is impermanent. What’s impermanent is suffering. What’s suffering is not-self. And what’s not-self should be truly seen with right understanding like this: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.’ Feeling is impermanent … Perception is impermanent … Choices are impermanent … Consciousness is impermanent. What’s impermanent is suffering. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #5. Be Your Own Island  #46. Impermanence (2nd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/23/2020

Posted on June 23, 2020

Seeing the five aggregates as impermanent, etc., leads to freedom.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, form is impermanent. What’s impermanent is suffering. What’s suffering is not-self. And what’s not-self should be truly seen with right understanding like this: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.’ Seeing truly with right understanding like this, the mind becomes dispassionate and freed from defilements by not grasping. Feeling is impermanent … Perception … Choices … Consciousness is impermanent. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #5. Be Your Own Island  #45. Impermanence 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/22/2020

Posted on June 22, 2020

Contemplation of the five aggregates as not-self is the path to the end of identity.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you the practice that leads to the origin of identity and the practice that leads to the cessation of identity. Listen … And what is the practice that leads to the origin of identity? It’s when an uneducated ordinary person has not seen the noble ones, and is neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the noble ones. [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #5. Be Your Own Island  #44. Practice 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/21/2020

Posted on June 21, 2020

Dwell with yourself as an island and refuge, with the Dhamma as an island and refuge. How? By investigating how suffering arises from identification with the aggregates.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, be your own island, your own refuge, with no other refuge. Let the teaching be your island and your refuge, with no other refuge. When you live like this, you should examine the cause: ‘From what are sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress born and produced? [Read More]
#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #5. Be Your Own Island  #43. Be Your Own Island 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/20/2020

Posted on June 20, 2020

To practice in line with the teachings a mendicant should meditate on the aggregates as not-self.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when a mendicant is practicing in line with the teachings, this is what’s in line with the teachings. They should live observing not-self in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. … They’re freed from suffering, I say.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #4. It’s Not Yours  #42. In Line with the Teachings (4th) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/19/2020

Posted on June 19, 2020

To practice in line with the teachings a mendicant should meditate on the aggregates as suffering.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when a mendicant is practicing in line with the teachings, this is what’s in line with the teachings. They should live observing suffering in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. … They’re freed from suffering, I say.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #4. It’s Not Yours  #41. In Line with the Teachings (3rd) 

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 06/18/2020

Posted on June 18, 2020

To practice in line with the teachings a mendicant should meditate on the aggregates as impermanent.At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, when a mendicant is practicing in line with the teachings, this is what’s in line with the teachings. They should live observing impermanence in form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. … They’re freed from suffering, I say.”

#Buddhist  #Linked Discourses 22  #4. It’s Not Yours  #40. In Line with the Teachings (2nd)