Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom One who is virtuous, possessed of virtue, is like an antidote for destroying the poison of the defilements in beings; He is like a healing balm for allaying the sickness…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom “It is like a hen with eight, ten or a dozen eggs which she has sat on properly, warmed properly and hatched properly. Is the chick which first pierces through…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom As a lotus is unsoiled by water, even so, Nĩrvãna is unsoiled by defilements. This is the one special quality of lotus that is present in Nĩrvãna. As cool water…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The Buddha is like a skilled physician in that he is able to heal the sickness of the defilemans. The Dhamma is like a rightly applied medicine, and the Sangha,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom I do not praise wrong behaviour in either householder or homeleaver. If either a householder or a homeleaver fares along wrongly, then he is not accomplishing the perfect way, the…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Truly dangerous are gains, honors and fame. Concerning this, I have known a man, reading his mind, who even for the sake of a golden bowl filled with silver nuggets…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom You should recollect beautiful friends like this: “It is indeed a gain for me. Indeed, it is good for me that I have beautiful friends, compassion, desiring my welfare, and…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are four types of people who should be known as enemies disguised as friends: the greedy person, one who speaks but does not act, the flatterer and squanderer. 1….

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Recollect the immeasurable Buddha, Be believing, And with the body filled with joy, You will always be uplifted. ♦♦♦ Recollect the immeasurable Dhamma, Be believing, And with the body filled…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom The doer of good rejoices here, rejoices there, Rejoices both here and there. He rejoices and is glad As he recollects his own good deeds. The doer of good delights…