Because puñña/merit is focused on fostering actions that lead to a genuine happiness, its practice also teaches many important lessons ...

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 9.1 Viveka Sutta: Seclusion

“Desiring seclusion you’ve entered the forest, and yet your mind goes running outside.…”

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Mendicants, these four people are found in the world. What four?

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 1.24 Manonivāraṇasutta: Shielding the Mind

“You needn’t shield the mind from everything.…”

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Renunciation is an intention to keep things simple, an approach that supports ease of being, lightness of mind, and a wise use of energy. For example, meditation in solitude is strongly renunciate, and certainly this is a skillful intention.
~Ajahn Sucitto

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 1.40 Dutiyapajjunnadhītusuttaṁ: With Pajjunna’s Daughter (2nd)

“I will state the meaning in brief as far as I have learned it by heart.…”

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@BasementDweller3000 And even if you have no subscription to anything, there are a ton of freely available meditation instructions available all over the place. Some examples:

Dharma Seed (https://dharmaseed.org/) has a collection called Introduction to Meditation (https://dharmaseed.org/collections/23577/)

Audio Dharma (https://www.audiodharma.org/) has a collection called Introduction to Mindfulness Instruction (https://www.audiodharma.org/series/14356)

Peter Doobinin has an introduction to breath meditation specifically on Berlin Dharma: https://www.berlindharma.org/dharma-talks.html

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Blaming somebody else for your suffering is like having an itch on your head and scratching your bottom. Now you have two itches for the price of one.
~Ven. Ajahn Chah

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Vv 3.9 Visālakkhī Sutta: Mansion of the Beautiful-Eyed Goddess

“Tell us, what meritorious deed have you done to gain this beauty?…”

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Restraint is a vital part of living a moral, civil life ...

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 3.127 Hatthakasutta: With Hatthaka

“I still rehearse now the teachings that I rehearsed as a human being.…”

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The senior Venerable Bhalliya said this:

He has swept away the army of the King of Death,
as a fragile bridge of reeds by a great flood.
Victorious since his fears have vanished:
tame and steadfast, he has become quenched.
~Thag1.7

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✨ We know only a fraction of what the Dhamma truly is ✨

🪷 Insightful wisdom from Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906–1993) 🪷

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906–1993) 🪷

✨ Although we call ourselves “Buddhists” and profess Buddhism, we haven’t yet realized the truth of Buddhism, for we are acquainted with only a tiny aspect of our own Buddhism. — Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906–1993) ✨

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 2.7 Pañcālacaṇḍasutta: With Pañcālacaṇḍa

“Those who have acquired mindfulness are perfectly serene in samādhi…”

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Question: Is there a key feature of the Buddhist attitude to morality?

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 11.11 Vatapadasutta: Vows

“‘As long as I live may I support my parents.’…”

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Interview with Bhikkhu Bodhi | Dharma Chats

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If we are practicing correctly, then life will always be new and interesting because we are always seeing more. We are observing nature happening in the deepest possible way. This is nature, experiencing nature.
~Sayadaw Tejaniya

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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 2.6 Kāmadasutta: With Kāmada

““It’s too hard, Blessed One! It’s just too hard!”…”

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