… He gives her eight
principles for testing what counts as genuine Dhamma, genuine Vinaya.
The principles fall into three types. There are those that are related
to the ultimate goal in the practice. There are those that are related
to qualities we have to develop within ourselves as we practice, and
the third type includes qualities that have to do with our
relationship with …
… eight precepts on this day. “Uposatha” also refers to the ceremony in which monks meet to listen to the recitation of the Pāṭimokkha on the full moon and new moon uposathas.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
Vipassanā: Insight. In the Pāli Canon, this denotes a quality of the mind. In modern Buddhism, it also denotes …
… and listening to others talk about the practice.
b. Paripucchatā: Make a habit of asking questions about what you have learned and experienced, and then put the answers into practice.
c. Vinaya-pakataññutā: Be knowledgeable and scrupulous concerning the precepts and practices you have undertaken.
d. Vuḍḍha-sevitā: Associate with those who are mature in their virtue and circumspect in their knowledge and behavior …
… a learner, standing at the level of a learner, can discern that ‘I am a learner.’
“And further, the monk who is a learner reflects, ‘Is there outside of this (Dhamma & Vinaya) any contemplative or brahman who teaches the true, genuine, & accurate Dhamma like the Blessed One?’ And he discerns, ‘No, there is no contemplative or brahman outside of this who teaches the true …
… The Dhamma, as he said, was something
that he had discovered, but the Vinaya was something he had
formulated. And here he was handing it over to the monks. He was no
longer laying claim to one of his main accomplishments.
In one way, this was basically a challenge to them. He had told them
many, many times that if they really cared about …
… Although our concern in this book is with the Dhamma, or the teaching of the Wings to Awakening, we should not forget that the Buddha named his teaching Dhamma-Vinaya. The Vinaya was the set of rules and regulations he established for the smooth running of the order. Dhamma is the primary member of the compound, but the Vinaya forms the context that helps …
… this fourth great dream appeared to let him know that people from the four castes—brahmans, noble-warriors, merchants, and laborers—having gone forth from the home life into homelessness in the Dhamma & Vinaya taught by the Tathāgata, would realize unexcelled release.
“When the Tathāgata—worthy & rightly self-awakened—was still just an unawakened bodhisatta, and he walked back & forth on top of a …
… The Vinaya-mukha and the Thai translator of the Commentary object strongly to this interpretation, the Vinaya-mukha adding sarcastically, “How fortunate we are that the Buddha allowed us to confess multiple offenses collectively under the term ‘sambahulā,’ for what would we do if we had to count such things?” The only leniency granted by the Commentary is an allowance for touching the lodging …
… Merit for the Deceased
Paṭicca Samuppāda | Dependent Co-arising
Heedfulness
The Three Inspired Verses
The House Builder
The Mountain
Noble Wealth
An Auspicious Day
The Three Characteristics
Bhāra-sutta Gāthā | Verses from the Discourses on the Burden
Dhammasaṅgaṇī Mātikā Pāṭha | The List from the Dhamma Groupings
The Council Chant
Vinaya | Discipline
Sutta | Discourses
Abhidhamma | Higher Dhamma
Dhamma-saṅgaṇī | Classification of Qualities
Vibhaṅga | Analysis
Dhātu …
… subdue his heat-induced fever.
“In the same way, if a person from a noble-warrior family goes forth from the home life into homelessness and, on coming to this Dhamma & Vinaya proclaimed by the Tathāgata and thus developing goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, & equanimity, he gains stilling within, then he, I tell you, is practicing the practice proper to a contemplative.
“If a person …
… Dhamma as not-Dhamma;
not-Dhamma as Dhamma;
Vinaya as not-Vinaya;
not-Vinaya as Vinaya;
what was not spoken by the Buddha as having been spoken by him;
what was spoken by the Buddha as not;
what was not regularly practiced by him as having been regularly practiced by him;
what was regularly practiced by him as not;
what was not formulated by …
… idha sārīputta bhikkhu adhammaṁ dhammoti dīpeti dhammaṁ adhammoti dīpeti avinayaṁ vinayoti dīpeti vinayaṁ avinayoti dīpeti
“Here, Sāriputta, a monk explains not-Dhamma as ‘Dhamma’, Dhamma as ‘not-Dhamma’, not-Vinaya as ‘Vinaya’, Vinaya as ‘not-Vinaya’,
abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatena bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatena abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti
“what was not spoken, not mentioned by the Tathāgata as ‘spoken, mentioned by the …
… And look at all the rules in the Vinaya for the monks to look after the monastery. Basically, the monastery is pure generosity. If you were to open your eyes right now and look around, everything you’d see would be somebody’s gift. And as for the monks, the longer you live as a monk, the more and more the very bones of …
… cross-examining a monk accused of an offense against the Vinaya. In the preliminary stage of a Vinaya cross-examination, a learned monk is questioned about the rules relevant to the planned accusation in a way that (1) establishes, for those who may have not yet learned it, the general framework of principles on which the specific action is to be judged; and (2 …
… The Vinaya—the collection of the Buddha’s rules for governing monastic life—charts a middle course between these two extremes. The rules show how the Buddha himself worked out the practical details on how to apply the principles of goodwill and virtue to this specific issue.
On the one hand, he didn’t subscribe to the notion that medical treatment should try to …
… In fact, some of the details of the precepts he taught to the king are
not even in the Vinaya. He describes right action, right speech, right
livelihood, training in contentment, training in mindfulness and
alertness, training in concentration, training in the skills that come
from concentration, and finally release: That’s the fruit of the
contemplative life, the highest of the fruits.
As …
… This is what it means to be totally destroyed in the Dhamma & Vinaya, when the Tathāgata doesn’t regard one as being worth speaking to or admonishing, and one’s observant companions in the holy life don’t regard one as being worth speaking to or admonishing.”
“Yes, lord, wouldn’t one be totally destroyed if the Tathāgata doesn’t regard one as being …
… teachings.
Uposatha: Observance day, coinciding with the full moon, new moon, and half moons. Lay Buddhists often observe the eight precepts on this day. “Uposatha” also refers to the ceremony in which monks meet to listen to the recitation of the Pāṭimokkha on the full moon and new moon uposathas.
Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
… Of particular interest is the inclusion of the fourteen duties or protocols (vatta) from the Vinaya, which stress the way in which training in meditation is a form of apprenticeship. This is a distinctive feature of the Wilderness tradition, in that these duties have been abandoned by many other Buddhist practice traditions.
Duties of the Saṅgha is somewhat different sort of treatise, in that …
… He started studying the Vinaya and the Dhamma, and
realized that the Vinaya as it was practiced in his monastery was
pretty sloppy. As for the practice of the Dhamma, nobody spoke
anything about meditation. He felt that something was really lacking.
Finally, in his second year as a monk, he met Ajaan Lee, who happened
to wander into Chanthaburi. He went to listen …
Glossary | First Things First
… eight precepts on this day. “Uposatha” also refers to the ceremony in which monks meet to listen to the recitation of the Pāṭimokkha on the full moon and new moon uposathas. Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text. Vipassanā: Insight. In the Pāli Canon, this denotes a quality of the mind. In modern Buddhism, it also denotes …
SN 48:53 Sekha Sutta | The Learner
… a learner, standing at the level of a learner, can discern that ‘I am a learner.’ “And further, the monk who is a learner reflects, ‘Is there outside of this (Dhamma & Vinaya) any contemplative or brahman who teaches the true, genuine, & accurate Dhamma like the Blessed One?’ And he discerns, ‘No, there is no contemplative or brahman outside of this who teaches the true …
MvX: kosambakakkhandhako
… idha sārīputta bhikkhu adhammaṁ dhammoti dīpeti dhammaṁ adhammoti dīpeti avinayaṁ vinayoti dīpeti vinayaṁ avinayoti dīpeti “Here, Sāriputta, a monk explains not-Dhamma as ‘Dhamma’, Dhamma as ‘not-Dhamma’, not-Vinaya as ‘Vinaya’, Vinaya as ‘not-Vinaya’, abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatena bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti bhāsitaṁ lapitaṁ tathāgatena abhāsitaṁ alapitaṁ tathāgatenāti dīpeti “what was not spoken, not mentioned by the Tathāgata as ‘spoken, mentioned by the …
