Words of the Buddha
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Reflection of the Day
“I do not see any other form that so completely obsesses a man’s mind as the form of a woman.”
— AN 1.1·
Fire: Investigating Recurrent Experience
The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.
Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.
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See more →One is a trainee if they have cultivated the four establishments of mindfulness to a limited extent.
One is a trainee if they have the right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right collectedness.
The Buddha ranks four kinds of persons: those practicing neither for their own benefit nor for others’, those practicing only for others, those practicing only for themselves, and those practicing for both. He likens the first to a charred log and the last to the cream of ghee.
Sitting in the open during a pitch-black, stormy night, the Buddha is visited by Brahmā Sahampati, who speaks on the courage of solitary practice and the countless beings who have found release.
The venerable Bhadda asks the venerable Ānanda why the good Dhamma lasts long or does not last long after the Tathāgata’s final Nibbāna. Ānanda answers that it depends on whether the four establishments of mindfulness are cultivated and frequently practiced.
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