Namakāra Gāthā
Araham Sammā-Sambuddho Bhagavā,
Buddham Bhagavantam abhivādemi.
Svākkhāto Bhagavatā Dhammo,
Dhammam namassāmi.
Supaṭipanno Bhagavato sāvaka-sangho,
Sangham namāmi.
The Blessed One is the Arahant, the Perfectly and Fully Awakened One;
I pay homage to the Buddha, the Blessed One.
The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One;
I pay homage to the Dhamma.
The Saṅgha of the Blessed One's disciples has practiced well;
I pay homage to the Saṅgha.
Araham Sammā-Sambuddho Bhagavā,
Buddham Bhagavantam abhivādemi.
Svākkhāto Bhagavatā Dhammo,
Dhammam namassāmi.
Supaṭipanno Bhagavato sāvaka-sangho,
Sangham namāmi.
The Blessed One is the Arahant, the Perfectly and Fully Awakened One;
I pay homage to the Buddha, the Blessed One.
The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One;
I pay homage to the Dhamma.
The Saṅgha of the Blessed One's disciples has practiced well;
I pay homage to the Saṅgha.
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The Karma of Questions
Essays on the Buddhist Path
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay Perennial Issues, and Pali diacritics were added throughout. The essays included are: Life Isn’t Just Suffering, Opening the Door to the Dhamma, Questions of Skill, Freedom from Fear, Samsara, Samsara Divided by Zero, The Agendas of Mindfulness, De-perception, The Weight of Mountains, Five Piles of Bricks, Perennial Issues, and When You Know for Yourselves.
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The Karma of Questions
Essays on the Buddhist Path
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay Perennial Issues, and Pali diacritics were added throughout. The essays included are: Life Isn’t Just Suffering, Opening the Door to the Dhamma, Questions of Skill, Freedom from Fear, Samsara, Samsara Divided by Zero, The Agendas of Mindfulness, De-perception, The Weight of Mountains, Five Piles of Bricks, Perennial Issues, and When You Know for Yourselves.
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Free Buddha Dharma ebook
The Karma of Questions
Essays on the Buddhist Path
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay Perennial Issues, and Pali diacritics were added throughout. The essays included are: Life Isn’t Just Suffering, Opening the Door to the Dhamma, Questions of Skill, Freedom from Fear, Samsara, Samsara Divided by Zero, The Agendas of Mindfulness, De-perception, The Weight of Mountains, Five Piles of Bricks, Perennial Issues, and When You Know for Yourselves.
Free download available:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/KarmaOfQuestions_251113.pdf
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The Karma of Questions
Essays on the Buddhist Path
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu
This is a revised edition to the second collection of essays. Significant changes were made to the essay Perennial Issues, and Pali diacritics were added throughout. The essays included are: Life Isn’t Just Suffering, Opening the Door to the Dhamma, Questions of Skill, Freedom from Fear, Samsara, Samsara Divided by Zero, The Agendas of Mindfulness, De-perception, The Weight of Mountains, Five Piles of Bricks, Perennial Issues, and When You Know for Yourselves.
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6. Middhã yadà hoti mahagghaso ca
niddàyità samparivattasàyã
Mahàvaràho' va nivàpapuññho
punappunam gabbham upeti mando. 325.
BE MODERATE IN EATING
6. The stupid one, when he is torpid, gluttonous, sleepy, rolls about lying like a great hog nourished on pig-wash, goes to rebirth again and again. 325.
Story
Owing to overeating King Kosala had to experience much discomfort. As advised by the Buddha he became moderate in eating and improved in health.
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niddàyità samparivattasàyã
Mahàvaràho' va nivàpapuññho
punappunam gabbham upeti mando. 325.
BE MODERATE IN EATING
6. The stupid one, when he is torpid, gluttonous, sleepy, rolls about lying like a great hog nourished on pig-wash, goes to rebirth again and again. 325.
Story
Owing to overeating King Kosala had to experience much discomfort. As advised by the Buddha he became moderate in eating and improved in health.
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“And what is the origin of suffering? In dependence on the eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition, feeling comes to be; with feeling as condition, craving. This is the origin of suffering.
“In dependence on the ear & sounds …[the nose & odours, the tongue & tastes, the body & tactile objects, the mind & mental phenomena], mind-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition, feeling comes to be; with feeling as condition, craving. This is the origin of suffering.
“And what , is the passing away of suffering? With the remainderless fading away & cessation of that same craving comes cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of existence; with the cessation of existence, cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, & despair cease. This is the passing away of suffering.
Partial excerpts from SN 12.43: Dukkhasutta
“In dependence on the ear & sounds …[the nose & odours, the tongue & tastes, the body & tactile objects, the mind & mental phenomena], mind-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition, feeling comes to be; with feeling as condition, craving. This is the origin of suffering.
“And what , is the passing away of suffering? With the remainderless fading away & cessation of that same craving comes cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, cessation of existence; with the cessation of existence, cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, & despair cease. This is the passing away of suffering.
Partial excerpts from SN 12.43: Dukkhasutta
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Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing
BUDDHADASA BHIKKHU
“Sit up straight with all the vertebrae of the spine fitting together snugly. Keep the head upright, with the eyes gazing toward the tip of the nose. Whether you see it or not doesn’t really matter, just gaze in the direction of the nose or past it. Once you get used to this, the results will be better than closing the eyes, and you won’t be inclined to fall asleep so easily. In particular, people who are sleepy will benefit from keeping the eyes open at first rather than closing them. Practice like this steadily and they will close by themselves when the time comes for them to close. However, if you want to practice with your eyes closed from the start, that’s fine too...”
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Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing
BUDDHADASA BHIKKHU
“Sit up straight with all the vertebrae of the spine fitting together snugly. Keep the head upright, with the eyes gazing toward the tip of the nose. Whether you see it or not doesn’t really matter, just gaze in the direction of the nose or past it. Once you get used to this, the results will be better than closing the eyes, and you won’t be inclined to fall asleep so easily. In particular, people who are sleepy will benefit from keeping the eyes open at first rather than closing them. Practice like this steadily and they will close by themselves when the time comes for them to close. However, if you want to practice with your eyes closed from the start, that’s fine too...”
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Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing
BUDDHADASA BHIKKHU
“Sit up straight with all the vertebrae of the spine fitting together snugly. Keep the head upright, with the eyes gazing toward the tip of the nose. Whether you see it or not doesn’t really matter, just gaze in the direction of the nose or past it. Once you get used to this, the results will be better than closing the eyes, and you won’t be inclined to fall asleep so easily. In particular, people who are sleepy will benefit from keeping the eyes open at first rather than closing them. Practice like this steadily and they will close by themselves when the time comes for them to close. However, if you want to practice with your eyes closed from the start, that’s fine too...”
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Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing
BUDDHADASA BHIKKHU
“Sit up straight with all the vertebrae of the spine fitting together snugly. Keep the head upright, with the eyes gazing toward the tip of the nose. Whether you see it or not doesn’t really matter, just gaze in the direction of the nose or past it. Once you get used to this, the results will be better than closing the eyes, and you won’t be inclined to fall asleep so easily. In particular, people who are sleepy will benefit from keeping the eyes open at first rather than closing them. Practice like this steadily and they will close by themselves when the time comes for them to close. However, if you want to practice with your eyes closed from the start, that’s fine too...”
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“Bhikkhus, there are world interstices, vacant and abysmal regions of blinding darkness and gloom, where the light of the sun and moon, so powerful and mighty, does not reach.”
When this was said, a certain bhikkhu said to the Blessed One: “That darkness, venerable sir, is indeed great; that darkness is indeed very great. But is there, venerable sir, any other darkness greater and more frightful than that one?”
“There is, bhikkhu.”
Those ascetics and brahmins, bhikkhu, who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is suffering’; who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is the origin of suffering’; who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is the cessation of suffering’; who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is the way leading to the cessation of suffering’— they tumble into the darkness of birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
Partial excerpts from SN 56.46 : Andhakasrasutta : Darkness
When this was said, a certain bhikkhu said to the Blessed One: “That darkness, venerable sir, is indeed great; that darkness is indeed very great. But is there, venerable sir, any other darkness greater and more frightful than that one?”
“There is, bhikkhu.”
Those ascetics and brahmins, bhikkhu, who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is suffering’; who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is the origin of suffering’; who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is the cessation of suffering’; who do not understand as it really is: ‘This is the way leading to the cessation of suffering’— they tumble into the darkness of birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
Partial excerpts from SN 56.46 : Andhakasrasutta : Darkness
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7. Idam pure cittam acàri càrikam
yena'icchakam yatthakàmam yathàsukham
Tadajj' aham niggahessàmi yoniso
hatthippabhinnam viya aïkusaggaho. 326.
CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS
7. Formerly this mind went wandering where it liked, as it wished and as it listed. Today with attentiveness I shall completely hold it in check, as a mahout (holds in check) an elephant in must. 326.
Story
A young novice who led a very virtuous life later desired to leave the Order. But his mother dissuaded him from doing so. Finally he realized the manifold advantages of the Holy Life. The Buddha uttered this verse in admonition.
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yena'icchakam yatthakàmam yathàsukham
Tadajj' aham niggahessàmi yoniso
hatthippabhinnam viya aïkusaggaho. 326.
CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS
7. Formerly this mind went wandering where it liked, as it wished and as it listed. Today with attentiveness I shall completely hold it in check, as a mahout (holds in check) an elephant in must. 326.
Story
A young novice who led a very virtuous life later desired to leave the Order. But his mother dissuaded him from doing so. Finally he realized the manifold advantages of the Holy Life. The Buddha uttered this verse in admonition.
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The vigilant sage who practises alone,
who unshaken is by blame or praise,
is as a lion that trembles not at sounds,
or as wind within a net cannot be caught,
or like a lotus flower by water not defiled,
leading other people but not by others led—
that one do the wise proclaim as a sage.
True Knower of the universe, Seer of highest truth,
crossed the ocean’s flood, One Thus and unattached,
One who’s knots are cut, with no inflows left—
that one do the wise proclaim as a sage.
Partial excerpts from Snp 1.12 : Muni Sutta
who unshaken is by blame or praise,
is as a lion that trembles not at sounds,
or as wind within a net cannot be caught,
or like a lotus flower by water not defiled,
leading other people but not by others led—
that one do the wise proclaim as a sage.
True Knower of the universe, Seer of highest truth,
crossed the ocean’s flood, One Thus and unattached,
One who’s knots are cut, with no inflows left—
that one do the wise proclaim as a sage.
Partial excerpts from Snp 1.12 : Muni Sutta
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