Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom For one who is virtuous, in full possession of virtue, there is no need for the purposeful thought: “May I be free from remorse.” Because it is natural for one…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Just as the dawn is the forerunner, the herald of the arising of the sun—so too, friendship with the beautiful is the forerunner, the herald of the arising of the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Whereas some recluses and Brãmins, while living on food provided by the faithful, make their living by such low arts, such wrong means of livelihood as palmistry, fortune-telling from signs,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Buddha is like one who passes down the inheritance of the Dhamma. The good Dhamma is like that inheritance. The Sangha, which is like a group of children who…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom These five things should often be contemplated by both women and men, by both householder and home-leaver. What five? “Old age can come to me; I have not got beyond…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom One conceives hatred at the thought: “So-and so has done me harm, he is doing me harm, he is doing to do me harm.” One conceives hatred at the thought:…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Then, King Milinda said: “Venerable Nãgasena, what is the characteristic of faith?” “Faith, Sire, has tranquility and leaping forward as its characteristic.” “How is tranquility a characteristic of faith?” “When…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Venerable Sona, meditating in solitude, thought to himself. “The Lord’s disciples live in active energy and I am one of them, yet my mind is not detached and free…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom When the Ageless exists, What do you want with sensual pleasures, Which are bound up with old age and death? All births everywhere Are inseparable from sickness and death. ♦♦♦…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Life in the world is unpredictable and uncertain. Life is difficult, short and fraught with suffering. Being born, one has to die; this is the nature of the world. With…