Month: August 2021

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The carpenter or his apprentice sees on his tool handle the wearing away caused by his fingers and thumb, but he does not necessarily know that so much has been…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Once there was a certain King in this very city of Sãvatthtĩ. He called someone, saying: “Come my good man, go and gather together in one place all the men…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom It is not possible that one who is himself unrestrained, undisciplined, and unquenched could restrain, discipline, and quench others. But it is very possible that one who is himself restrained,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Buddha is like a steadfast man who gives protection from fear. The Dhamma is like the protection from fear, and the Sangha is like those who have found protection…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these six ways of being considerate. What six? ♦ One has love in deed toward one’s companions in the holy life, both openly and in private;  ♦ One…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom I am a true Brãmin, one to ask a favour of, purehanded, wearing my last body, an incomparable physician and surgeon. You are my own true children, born of my…