Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom These five things make one’s gift good. What five? One gives with reverence, one gives thoughtfully, one gives with his own hand, one gives things that are good, and one…

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, one is concerned with the restraint of greed, hatred and delusion in himself, and he…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these three types of sick person to be found in the world. What three? There is the sick person who, whether he obtains the proper diet, proper medicines,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom What people expect to happen Is often different from what actually happens. Thus does disappointment arise, This is the way the world works

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom I tell you this: Let an intelligent person come to me who is sincere, honest, and straightforward, and I will instruct him, I will teach him Dhamma. If he practises…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Just as the River Ganges flows towards, inclines towards, tends towards the east – so too, one who cultivates and develops the Noble Eightfold Path flows towards, inclines towards and…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Potaliya the wanderer came to visit the Lord, greeted him courteously, and sat down at one side, and as he did, the Lord said to him: “Potaliya, there are these…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom This is how you should train yourselves: “Those discourses taught by the Lord – deep, profound, transcendental – from time to time we will spend our day in learning them.”…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom If anyone abuses you to your face, strikes you with a fist, throws clods of earth at you, beats you with a stick or gives you a blow with a…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Once, while the Lord was staying near Kosambĩ in the Ghosita Park, Venerable Udãyin, surrounded by a great gathering of laymen, sat teaching the Damma. Now, Ãnanda saw this, so…