... of perception it occurs to him: "Mental activity is worse for me, lack of mental activity is better. If I were to think and imagine, these perceptions [that I have attain ed] would cease, and coarser perceptions ...
Saturday, 06 February 2010
... directly knew: 'Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.' 24. "This was the third true knowledge attain ed by ...
Monday, 25 January 2010
... how the Blessed One tames the untamed, brings peace to the unpeaceful, and leads to Nibbāna those who have not attain ed Nibbāna. Venerable sir, we ourselves could not tame him with force and weapons, yet ...
Sunday, 17 January 2010
... Master Kaccāna, that Blessed One, accomplished and fully enlightened?” “That Blessed One, accomplished and fully enlightened, has attain ed to final Nibbāna, great king.” 11. “If we heard that that ...
Sunday, 17 January 2010
... destroyed the five lower fetters, he is one who will reappear spontaneously [in the Pure Abodes] and there attain final Nibbāna without ever returning from that world. 19. “‘On one occasion when I was ...
Sunday, 17 January 2010
... "Again, the Tathāgata understands as it actually is the defilement, the cleansing, and the emergence in regard to the jhānas, liberations, concentrations, and attain ments. That too is a Tathāgata’s power… ...
Saturday, 16 January 2010
... to views, no longer clings to rules and observances, no longer clings to a doctrine of self. When he does not cling, he is not agitated. When he is not agitated, he personally attain s Nibbana . He understands: ...
Saturday, 16 January 2010
... this progress. So arouse still more energy to attain the unattain ed, to achieve the unachieved, to realize the unrealized. I shall wait here at Sāvatthī for the Komudī full moon of the fourth month.”
5. ...
Saturday, 05 December 2009
... free from craving.
Enlightened was Mangala, free from lust;
Usabha cut the net, the root of suffering.
Upanīta attain ed the state of peace,
Purified, excellent, truly named.
Jeta, Jayanta, Paduma, ...
Saturday, 05 December 2009
1. Thus have I heard. On one occasion the venerable Ānanda was living at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrels’ Sanctuary, not long after the Blessed One had attain ed to final Nibbāna.
2. Now on ...
Friday, 04 December 2009
... those bhikkhus who are in the higher training, whose minds have not yet attain ed the goal, who abide aspiring to the supreme security from bondage. But these things conduce both to a pleasant abiding here ...
Friday, 04 December 2009
... confidence in this base. Once there is full confidence, he either attain s to the imperturbable now or else he resolves [upon it] with wisdom. On the dissolution of the body, after death, it is possible ...
Friday, 04 December 2009
... that is declared to be a disaster for entering upon this base. For this base, it is declared, is not be attain ed as an attain ment with formations; this base, it is declared, is to be attain ed as an attain ment ...
Friday, 04 December 2009
... actions indeed have all these many kinds of tortures inflicted on them. Oh, that I might attain the human state, that a Tathāgata, accomplished and fully enlightened, might appear in the world, that I ...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
... on the search for sensual pleasures, could know, see, or realize that which must be known through renunciation, seen through renunciation, attain ed through renunciation, realized through renunciation? ...
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
... and went from cell to cell, saying: “Come forth, venerable sirs; come forth, venerable sirs. Today I shall attain final Nibbāna.”
[That the venerable Bakkula took a key and went from cell to cell, saying: ...
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
... about the Buddhas of the past – who attain ed to final Nibbāna, cut [the tangle of] proliferation, broke the cycle, ended the round, and surmounted all suffering – that for those Blessed Ones their birth ...
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
... in the practice, and he himself realized the three true knowledges. On a later occasion, the venerable Puṇṇa attain ed final Nibbāna.
8. Then a number of bhikkhus went to the Blessed One, and after paying ...
Tuesday, 04 August 2009
... and bhikkhunīs] headed by the Buddha; this is the first kind of offering made to the Sangha. One gives a gift to a Sangha of both [bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs] after the Tathāgata has attain ed final Nibbāna; ...
Tuesday, 04 August 2009
... either being or non-being, he does not cling to anything in this world. When he does not cling, he is not agitated. When he is not agitated, he personally attain s Nibbāna. He understands thus: ‘Birth is ...
Tuesday, 04 August 2009
