Re: Yawares Daily Dhamma Thread
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:19 pm
Dear Members,
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Daily Dhamma: Patience
[Presented by Dr.Tep Sastri @ Sariputtadhamma/JTN]
1. Patience is the 27th of the 38 Highest Blessings (Mahamangala): "Patience is the foundation of metta (loving-kindness). It is reckoned as a great power; and the strength of those who have patience is often praised in Buddhist writings."
"Patience is an excellent quality much praised in Buddhist scriptures. It can be developed easily only if restlessness and hatred have already been subdued in the mind, as is done by meditation practice." ...
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2. [Dhammapada XIV, 184: Awakened:]
"Enduring patience is the highest austerity.
'Nibbana is supreme,' say the Buddhas.
He is not a true monk who harms another, nor a true renunciate who oppresses others.
3. A Treatise on the Paaramiis, The All-Embracing Net of Views, translated from the Pali (Cariyaapi.taaka A.t.thakathaa) by Bhikkhu Bodhi: "Patience has the characteristic of acceptance; its function is to endure the desirable and undesirable; its manifestation is tolerance or non-opposition; seeing things as they really are is its proximate cause.
"Patience is mentioned immediately after energy:
(a) because patience is perfected by energy (Viriya), as it is said: "The energetic man, by arousing his energy, overcomes the suffering imposed by beings and formations";
(b) because patience is an adornment of energy, as it is said: "The patience of the energetic man shines with splendor";
(c) in order to state the causal basis for serenity immediately after the basis for exertion, for restlessness due to excessive activity is abandoned through reflective acquiescence in the Dhamma;
(d) in order to show the perseverance of the man of energy, since one who is patient and free from restlessness perseveres in his work;
(e) in order to show the absence of craving for rewards in a Bodhisattva diligently engaged in activity for the welfare of others, for there is no craving when he reflects on the Dhamma in accordance with actuality; and
(f) to show that the Bodhisattva must patiently endure the suffering created by others even when he is working to the utmost for their welfare.
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Love Buddha's dhamma
yawares/sirikanya
I wish metors fell somewhere in the Texas desert..I wish meteors carried some exotic/beautiful space gems inside too...meteors can be heavenly gifts from Sakka himself:jumping:
*************
Daily Dhamma: Patience
[Presented by Dr.Tep Sastri @ Sariputtadhamma/JTN]
1. Patience is the 27th of the 38 Highest Blessings (Mahamangala): "Patience is the foundation of metta (loving-kindness). It is reckoned as a great power; and the strength of those who have patience is often praised in Buddhist writings."
"Patience is an excellent quality much praised in Buddhist scriptures. It can be developed easily only if restlessness and hatred have already been subdued in the mind, as is done by meditation practice." ...
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... 6.html#ch4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
2. [Dhammapada XIV, 184: Awakened:]
"Enduring patience is the highest austerity.
'Nibbana is supreme,' say the Buddhas.
He is not a true monk who harms another, nor a true renunciate who oppresses others.
3. A Treatise on the Paaramiis, The All-Embracing Net of Views, translated from the Pali (Cariyaapi.taaka A.t.thakathaa) by Bhikkhu Bodhi: "Patience has the characteristic of acceptance; its function is to endure the desirable and undesirable; its manifestation is tolerance or non-opposition; seeing things as they really are is its proximate cause.
"Patience is mentioned immediately after energy:
(a) because patience is perfected by energy (Viriya), as it is said: "The energetic man, by arousing his energy, overcomes the suffering imposed by beings and formations";
(b) because patience is an adornment of energy, as it is said: "The patience of the energetic man shines with splendor";
(c) in order to state the causal basis for serenity immediately after the basis for exertion, for restlessness due to excessive activity is abandoned through reflective acquiescence in the Dhamma;
(d) in order to show the perseverance of the man of energy, since one who is patient and free from restlessness perseveres in his work;
(e) in order to show the absence of craving for rewards in a Bodhisattva diligently engaged in activity for the welfare of others, for there is no craving when he reflects on the Dhamma in accordance with actuality; and
(f) to show that the Bodhisattva must patiently endure the suffering created by others even when he is working to the utmost for their welfare.
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Love Buddha's dhamma
yawares/sirikanya