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Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom When you speak to others, you might speak at the right time or at the wrong time, according to fact or not, gently or harshly, about the goal or not,…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom In the southern districts, there is an ablution ceremony. At that time, there is much food and drink, edibles hard and soft, syrups and drinks, dancing, singing and music. This…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom These five things should often be contemplated by both women and men, by both householder and home-leaver. What five? “Old age can come to me; I have not got beyond…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association)  Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Once, when I was resting under the goatherd’s Banyan tree on the banks of Nerañjarã just after my enlightenment. Mãra came to see me and said: “Pass away now, now…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Just as the great ocean slopes away gradually, tends downwards gradually without any abrupt precipice, even so this Dhamma and discipline is a gradual doing, a gradual training, a gradual…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom Without tarrying and without hurrying did I cross the flood. For when I tarried I sank, and when I hurried I was whirled about. And so, without tarrying and without…

Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association) Venerable Shravasti Dhammika The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom I have learned two things: not to be content with good states one has already developed, and not to give up trying. Without giving up, I keep trying and think:…