Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Bãhiya of the Bark Garment asked the monks: “Pray, sirs, where is the Lord staying – he who is a Noble One, he is a fully awakened Buddha?” “The Lord…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Music from a five-piece ensemble Cannot produce as much delight As that of a one-pointed mind With perfect insight into things ♦♦♦ Âm nhạc từ một dàn nhạc gồm năm…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom “Lord, there are three scents whose fragrance spreads with the wind but not against it. They are the root scent, the heartwood scent and the scent of followers. Is there…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There is that condition where there is not earth, water, fire, or air; where there are not the spheres of infinite space, infinite consciousness, nothingness or the sphere of neither-consciousness-nor-unconsciousness;…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Then Ãnanda came to the Lord and said: “Half of the holy life is friendship, association, and intimacy with the beautiful.” “Say not so, Ãnanda, say not so! It is…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The fool who listens to the Conqueror’s teachingsWith a hostile mindDoes not grow in the good DhammaAny more than a rotten seed grows in the field.                                                But one who…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Tathãgata does not live in abundance, he does not revert to the life of abundance, nor does he waver in his striving. The Tathãgata is a perfected one, a…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom At the time, the Lord said to the monks: “Once upon a time, a bamboo acrobat set up his pole, called his pupil, and said: ‘Now, my lad, climb the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Now, on one occasion, the Lord, having arisen from his solitude towards evening, was seated warming his back in the westerly sunshine. Then, Venerable Ãnanda came to see the Lord,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom I will teach you the burden, the taking hold of the burden, the lifting it up and the putting it down. And what is the burden? The answer is the…