Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Both now and in the past It has always been thus, O Atula! They blame those who are silent, They blame those who speak much, And they blame those who…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom One day as the Lord was seated in the Gandha Kuti at the Jeta Grove, he surveyed the world at down, and he saw a certain poor man at Alavĩ….

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom “I will teach you something, the parable of the raft for crossing over, not for clinging on to. Listen carefully, pay attention and I will speak. Say a man going…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Tathãgata lives free, detached and released from the body, feelings, perception, mental constructs, conciousness, rebirth, decay, death, and the passions. Just as a blue, red or white lotus, born…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Whoever is easy to speak to because of respecting, revering, and honoring Dhamma, his speech is gracious and I call him easy to speak to.

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these five limbs of striving. What five? One has faith in the enlightenment of the Buddha. One has health and wellbeing, a good digestion, not over-hot or over-cool,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom How does one live practicing contemplation of mind? Concerning this? One knows a mind with greed as a mind with greed, and a mind without greed as a mind without…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom It is just as if a man traveling in a forest should come across an ancient road, and ancient path, traversed by men in former times, and proceeding along it,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these gross impurities of golds: dust, sand, gravel and grit. The dirt washer or his apprentice heaps the gold into a trough and washes it up, washes it…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom How is one concerned with his own good and the good of others? Concerning this, a certain person is quick, he grasps teachings that are profitable, he has learned by…