Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom And Sãriputta said to the Lord: “I believe that there has never been, there will not be in the future nor is there now a recluse or Brãhmin who is…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom And what is a monk’s wealth? Concerning this, one abides with the mind filled with love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity, suffering the first, second, third, and fourth quarter. One…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom An ordinary man experiences pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings, and so does the instructed noble disciple. So, what is the distinction, the division, the difference between them? When an ordinary…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There is one person who is born into the world for the welfare of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom When one has freed the mind, the gods cannot trace him, even though they think: “This is the consciousness attached to the Tathãgatha”. And why? It is because the Tathãgata…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom How does one practice contemplation on feeling? When experiencing a pleasant feeling, one knows: “I am experiencing a pleasant feeling”. When experiencing a painful feeling, one knows: “I am experiencing…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Venerable Tissa, the nephew of the Lord’s father, came to the Lord crying. Then the Lord said to him: “What is wrong, Tissa? Why do you sit beside me sad…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom A tree makes no distinction in the shade it gives. Even so, the meditation, the earnest student of meditation must make no distinction between any beings, but must develop love…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Lord said to Sãriputta: “Tell me, Sãriputta, could a noble disciple who is fully devoted to and has perfect faith in the Tathãgata have any doubt or uncertianty in…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Where there is pain, Please is to be strive for. In the same way, Where there is becoming, Non-becoming is to be desired. Where there is heat, There must be…