#pali canon

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle chatter: This is called right speech. —Gautama Buddha, Mahācattārīsakasutta, Pāli Canon (c 500 BCE)

[Scott Horton]

[gleaningsinbuddhafields]

Who Dwells In This House?

I’ve been mulling over a certain quotation of Honen (法然, 1133–1212), the 12th century Buddhist monk credited with spreading the Pure Land tradition in Japan, and thus founder of movements such as Jodo-Shu and Jodo-Shinshu: “All of our deeds in the realms of saṃsāra result from ties with the three worldly passions of greed, anger, and ignorance. Understand that when the worldly passions of greed,…

[buddhismnow]

Crossing the Flood.

Crossing the Flood. This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. https://wp.me/pFy3u-7mo

Crossing the Flood Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Savatthi in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapiṇḍika’s Park. Then, when the night had advanced, a certain devatā of stunning beauty, illuminating the entire Jeta’s Grove, approached the Blessed One. Having approached, he paid homage to the Blessed One, stood to one side, and said to him: “How, dear sir, did you cross the…

[theravadin]

hi! as you may know i have just acquired the bhikku nanamoli/bhikku bodhi english translation of the majjhima nikaya! i would like to ask anyone willing to comment on this, what order should i read the suttas in? i was initially going to simply read them from 1 to 152 in the order they are presented in the book, but i also found this study guide which offers perhaps a more coherent/cohesive order in which to progress through the suttas. for anyone who has spent time with these texts, which of these two reading orders would you recommend?

[thejsacco]

Enough Self Improvement

Our world is always imploring us to improve. You need to have a better physique, create some new skills so that you don’t get left behind, improve your relationships, your spirituality, learn a new language, or manage your money better. Here is the thing; the list is endless and 90% of the investment you make reading or taking classes in self improvement is pretty much worthless. Why do we get on…

[bunger-royale]

"Does Master Gotama have any position at all?" "A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is perception...such are fabrications...such is consciousness, such its origination, such its disappearance.' Because of this, I say, a Tathagata — with the ending, fading away, cessation, renunciation, & relinquishment of all construings, all excogitations, all I-making & mine-making & obsessions with conceit — is, through lack of clinging/sustenance, released."

-- Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta: To Vacchagotta on Fire

[mr-sylvilagus]

Abandoning divisive speech he abstains from divisive speech. What he has heard here he does not tell there to break those people apart from these people here. What he has heard there he does not tell here to break these people apart from those people there. Thus reconciling those who have broken apart or cementing those who are united, he loves concord, delights in concord, enjoys concord, speaks things that create concord.

AN 10.176, Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta / To Cunda the Silversmith

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Gautama Buddha to his mutuals 2560 years ago

"why are you being so insufferable on tumblr today" well you see everything is fucking burning

[robsmooth]

The asier viewing the prophecy were like:

[palilious]

been thinking about Caleb Nomad again

[transgenderer]

Writing my treatise on the fusion of traditional Buddhist ethics and modern liberal sexual mores (in sanskrit, of course): the Poly Canon

[gleaningsinbuddhafields]

Battlefields

Spock: To expect sense from two mentalities of such extreme viewpoints is not logical. Star Trek, “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” (s3ep15), Stardate: 5730.2 In the infamous episode of Star Trek, season three, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, we see two aliens who have been chasing and attempting to defeat one another for “50,000 standard years” because the patterns on their faces are…

[buddhismnow]

Crossing the Flood.

Crossing the Flood. This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. https://wp.me/pFy3u-7mo

Crossing the Flood Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Savatthi in Jeta’s Grove, Anathapiṇḍika’s Park. Then, when the night had advanced, a certain devatā of stunning beauty, illuminating the entire Jeta’s Grove, approached the Blessed One. Having approached, he paid homage to the Blessed One, stood to one side, and said to him: “How, dear sir, did you cross the…

[deluweil]

Speculation: "Death and taxes" is about Chimney and Maddie. This is where legal guardian issues for Jee-Yun will probably come up.

I wonder if we finally get that talk that reveals Buck is written down in Eddie's will as Christopher's legal guardian in case something happens to Eddie. 👀

[thejsacco]

The Perils Of Attachment

Introduction This is a bit longer than my normal posts as the topic of this post is focused on the 2nd Noble Truth “the origin of dukkha” and also touches on the 3rd and 4th Noble truths. For the purposes of this blog post, you can think of craving and attachment as the same thing and will be used interchangeably. Most of my references are from books in the Pali Canon. The Pāli Canon is the…

[tellingittash]

Religious Studies Term Of The Day: Pali