Category: The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Whatever a Tathãgata utters, speaks and proclaims beteen the day of his enlightment an the day he dies, all that is factural, not otherwise, and that is why he is…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Even if one should seize the hem of my robe and walk step by step behind me, if he is covetous in his desires, fierce in his longings, malevolent of…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Possessed of four qualities, one is understood as being a good person. What four? ♦ Concerning this, the good person does not speak of what is to the discredit of…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom These five trades ought not to be practices by a layman. What five? Trade in weapons, trade in human beings, trade in flesh, trade in alcohol, and trade in poisons….

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom There are these three unskilled types of thought. What three? Thoughts of self-esteem, thoughts of gains, honors and fame, and thoughts of worrying about other. ♦♦♦ Có ba kiểu suy…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Four things lead to worldly progress: achievement in alertness, in caution, in good friendship, and achievement in balanced livelihood. ♦ And what is achievement in alertness? Concerning this, in whatever…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Greed, hatred and delusion are unskillful. Whatever the greedy, hating and deluded person does with body, speech or mind—that is unskillful, also. Whatever one overwhelmed by greed, hatred or delusion,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom  Who is one’s own best friend, and who is one’s own worst enemy? Those whose thoughts, speech and actions are evil, they are their own worst enemy. Even if they…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom  The mind is luminous, but it is stained by defilements that come from without. Ordinary folk do not realize this, so they do not cultivate the mind. The mind is…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom  Whatever families endure long, all of them do so because of four reasons or because of several of them. What four? They recover what is lost, repair what is decayed,…