Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom “If, with full comprehensive, the good Gotama teaches Dhamma to his disciples for the purification of beings, for the overcoming of sorrow and despair, for the ending of grief and…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom In this way one should draw this inference from oneself: “That person who has evil desires and is in the grip of evil desires – he is unpleasant and disagreeable…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom These five advantages come to the virtuous man because of his practice of virtue. What five? Concerning this: The virtuous man, possessed of virtue, by reason of his earnestness, comes…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Do not be afraid of doing good deeds. It is an other name for happiness. I know well that good deeds lead to a ripening, a blossoming, which is pleasing,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these four powers. What four? The power of mindfulness, of concentration, of innocence, and the power of showing kindness.

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Develop the meditation that is like water, for in so doing, pleasant and unpleasant sensory impressions that have arisen and taken hold of thought will not persist. Just as people…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The thought of love, of compassion, of sympathetic joy, of equanimity, if cultivated and developed, is of great fruit and profit.

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom From the day the Lord said: “Four months from now I will attain final Nirvãna”. Thousands of men came to wait upon him. Those who had not yet attained the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Compassion is that which makes the heart of the good move at the pain of others. It crushes and destroys the pain of others; thus, it is called compassion. It…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Now, it may be that some of you think: “The Teacher’s instructions have ceased. We have no teacher anymore.” But it should not be seen like this. That which I…