Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Even if low-down criminals should cut you limb from limb with a double-handed saw, if you filled your mind with hatred, you would not be practicing my teachings.

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom In due time Kisã Gotamĩ became pregnant, and after ten lunar months gave birth to a son. But the child died as soon as he was able to walk. Kisã…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Lord said to Lohicca: “It is true that you reason like this: “If a recluse or Brãmin discovers some good Dhamma, he should not teach it to others, for…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Bhãradvãja asked the Lord: “What, good Gotama, is of great help in the attainment of truth? We are asking about the thing that is of great help in the attaining…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these four persons found in the world. What four? ♦ One with little learning who does not profit from his learning. ♦ One of little learning who does…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom As a mongoose approaches a snake to seize it only after having supplied his own body with medicine, so too, the meditator, the earnest student of meditation, on approaching this…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Mahãnãma the Sakyan came to see the Lord and said: “This town of Kapilavatthu is rich, prosperous, popular, crowded with men, thickly populated with people. Now, when I enter the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom When there is discontent, this woe may be looked for – whether one goes, stands, sits or lies, one has no happiness or pleasure; whether one has gone to the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom “If anyone should criticize me, the Dhamma or the Sangha, you should not on the account by angry, resentful or upset. For if you were, that would hinder you, and…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Venerable Ãnanda went to the house, leaned against the doorpost and wept, saying: “I am but a learner. I still have to attain perfection. But alas, my master who is…