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I have always loved reading the stories of the Buddha's disciples as found in the Thera and Therigatha's. It shows the struggles that the monks went through (even during the time the Buddha was still alive) and which aren't so different from my own and other meditator's. I especially love the poetic verses that the monks and nuns use to describe the natural beauty that surrounded them in the forests. It's very inspirational!
Here is one of my favorites:
10:2 Ekavihāriya—“Dwelling Alone”
If, in front or behind,
there is no one else,
it’s extremely pleasant
for one staying alone
in the forest.
Come then! Alone
I will go to the wilderness
praised by the Awakened One
pleasant for a resolute monk
dwelling alone.
Alone,
astute in my goal,
I’ll quickly enter the grove
—refreshing,
giving rapture
to meditators—
the haunt
of elephants in rut.
When the Cool Forest’s in full flower,
in a cool mountain gorge,
having bathed my limbs
I’ll walk back & forth
alone.
Ah, when will I dwell,
alone and free from companions,
in the refreshing great forest—
my task done,
effluent-free?
As I desire to do this,
may my purpose succeed.
I myself
will bring it about.
No one can do it
for anyone else.
I myself
bind on my armor.
I will enter the grove
and will not emerge
without having attained
the end of the effluents.
While soft breezes blow—
cool,
heavily, fragrantly scented—
I’ll make ignorance burst,
as I sit on a mountaintop.
In the forest covered with blossoms
or perhaps on a cool hillside,
blessed with the bliss of release,
on Giribbaja I’ll delight.
I am now he
whose resolves are fulfilled
like the moon on a full-moon night.
With effluents all
totally ended,
there is now no further becoming.
If anyone has any comments or favorite verses of your own please feel free to share.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
dharmacorps wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:02 pm
Thanks for sharing. I've been re-reading the Therigatha and theragatha lately and have found a lot in there of great value.
Same! Feel free to post your favorite suttas!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
dharmacorps wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:02 pm
Thanks for sharing. I've been re-reading the Therigatha and theragatha lately and have found a lot in there of great value.
Awesome!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
With clear waters &
massive boulders,
frequented by monkeys &
deer,
covered with moss &
water weeds: Those rocky crags
refresh me.
Thanks JohnK!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
I—having eaten honey-rice
in a bamboo patch
and rightly grasping the aggregates’
arising-disbanding—
will return to the hillside, intent
on seclusion.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
Lightning lands on the cleft
between Vebhāra & Paṇḍava,
but,
having gone to the cleft in the mountains,
he’s absorbed in jhāna—the son
of the one without compare,
the one who is Such.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.