Three types of persons hard to find in the world

1. The appearance of the Buddha and Arahants
2. A person who can expound the Dhamma-discipline
3. A person who is mindful and grateful
 

1. Greed (Lobha)
2. Hatred (Dosa)
3. Delusion (Moha)
 

1. Desire
2. Ill-will
3. Delusion
4. Fear
 

The World is led by thought. By thought it is drawn along.
 

1. Growth in faith (Saddha)
2. Growth in virtues (Sila)
3. Growth in insight (Panna)
 

One that thunders but doesn’t rain, one that rains but doesn’t thunder, one that neither thunders nor rains, and one that both thunders and rains.

“In the same way, there are four types of persons resembling these thunderheads in this world. Which four?

1. How is one thunders but doesn’t rain?
- a person has mastered the Dhamma – the Teachings of the Buddha but doesn’t put them into practice.

2. How is one rains but doesn’t thunder?
- a person who has not mastered the Dhamma but practices the moral way.

3. How is one who neither thunders nor rains?
- a person has not mastered the Dhamma and does not walk on the Right Path.

4. How is one who both thunders and rains?
- those who mastered the Dhamma and put them into practice.
 

5. Hardened Sensualist (Sensual Indulgence)
6. Self-tormentor (Self Mortification)
7. Midway Practice (Middle Way)
 

1. Robes
2. Alms-food
3. Lodging
4. Success or failure in this and that
 

1. One in darkness who is headed for darkness,
2. One in darkness who is headed for light,
3. One in light who is headed for darkness and
4. One in light who is headed for light.
 

1. Long life
2. Beauty
3. Happiness
4. Status
5. Rebirth in heaven
 

1. One hears what one has not heard before.
2. One clarifies what one has heard before.
3. One gets rid of doubt.
4. One’s views are made straight.
5. One’s mind grows serene.
 

1. He fully comprehended what is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, attained, searched into, ponder over by the mind of all beings.

2. He utters, speaks and proclaims only the Truth and not otherwise.

3. As He speaks, so He does: as He does, so He speaks.

4. He is a conqueror, unconquered, all-seeing and omnipotent.
 

1. Gains,
2. Loss,
3. Status (Fame)
4. Disgrace (Defame)
5. Censure (Blame)
6. Praise,
7. Pleasure (Happiness)
8. Pain (Sorrow)
 

1. He who goes with the stream
- indulges his passion and does wrong deeds.

2. He who goes against the stream
- indulges not in his passion and does no wrong deeds but with suffering and dejection, with tearful face and lamentation lives the God-life, complete and utterly fulfilled.

3. He who stands fast
– he destroys the first 5 fetters.

4. He who crossed over, gone beyond and stands on dry land
- He destroys all the fetters, realized in this life and attained enlightenment.
 

1. Earth element.
2. Water element.
3. Heat element.
4. Air element.
 

1. Dukkha
-  the Noble Truth of the Unsatisfactoriness or Suffering.

2. Samudaya
-  the Noble Truth of the Cause of this Unsatisfactoriness (Craving).

3. Nirodha
-  the Noble Truth of the Cessation of this Unsatisfactoriness (Nibbana).

4. Magga
-  the Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of this Unsatisfactoriness (Noble Eight-fold Path).
 

The Middle Path consist of:

SILA – Morality
1. Samma Vaca – Right Speech
2. Samma Kammanta – Right Action
3. Samma Avija – Right Livelihood

SAMADHI – Mental Culture
4. Samma Vayama – Right Effort
5. Samma Sati – Right Mindfulness
6. Samma Samadhi – Right Concentration

PANNA - Wisdom
7. Samma Ditthi – Right Understanding
8. Samma Sankappa – Right Thought
 

1. That which is devoted to sensual pleasure with reference to sensual objects: base, vulgar, common, ignoble, unprofitable; and

2. That which is devoted to self-affliction: painful, ignoble, unprofitable.
Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathagata – producing vision, producing knowledge – leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding.
 

1. Growth in Faith
2. Growth in Virtue
3. Growth in Learning
4. Growth in Charity
5. Growth in Insight
 

1. A monk gets by heart a text that I wrongly taken, with words and sense that are wrongly arranged causing misleading.

2. The monks are difficult to speak to, possess of qualities that made them difficult to speak to, intractable and incapable of being instructed.

3. The monks who are widely learned yet do not dutifully hand on the text to another.

4. The elderly monks live in abundance and taking the lead in backsliding (to the worldly life), no effort to reach the unattained and realize the unrealized.
 

1. A listener – gives attention to the instruction

2. A Destroyer during the battle – abandons, restraints and destroys the unprofitable state of action, speech and mind.

3. A Bearer of spear, arrows and sword during the battle – bears the physical and mental endurance such as hunger, thirst, abusive speech and blames.

4. A Goer who charges in the direction of the trainer- challenges to destroy craving, renouncing and sacrifices to reach Nibbana.
 

1. Fear of self-reproach
- reflecting the result of evil conduct of one-self

2. Fear of other’s reproach.
- reflecting the reaction of others due to the evil conduct of oneself on them.

3. Fear of punishment.
- as of the country’s rules and laws

4. Fear of the way of woe.
- the rebirth after one passed away
 

1. Dwelling in a fitting place
2. Association with the worthy one
3. Perfect application of the self
4. Merit done aforetime
 

1. When the truly good and wise people in the world show compassion, they will first show compassion to people of conviction.

2. When visiting, they first visit people of conviction.

3. When accepting gifts, they will first accept those from people with conviction.

4. When teaching the Dhamma, they will first teach those with conviction and not those without conviction.

5. A person of conviction, on the break-up of the body, after death, will arise in a good destination, the heavenly world.
 

1. Sensual clinging,
2. View clinging,
3. Precept and practice clinging and
4. Doctrine of self-clinging.
 

The four places that a pious person should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence,

1. Lumbini
– the birth place of the Tathagata

2. Bodhi-Gaya
– the place the Tathagata became fully enlightened in unsurpasses, supreme Englightenment!

3. Isipatana
– the place where the Tathagata set rolling the excelled Wheel of the Dhamma!

4. Kusinara
– The place the Tathagata passed away into the state of Nibbana in which no element of clinging remains!
 

 - appearing in the world, for the benefit of many, the happiness of many, in sympathy for the world – for the welfare, the benefit the happiness of beings, human and divine.

1. There is the Tathagata, worthy and rightly self-awakened, consummate in clear knowing and conduct, well-gone, an expert with regards to the cosmos, unsurpassed trainer of tamable people, teacher of beings, human and diving, awakened, blessed. He teaches the Dhamma admirable in its beginning, admirable in its middle, admirable in its end.

2. There is the disciple of that Teacher who is worthy one, his mental effluents ended, who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming and who is released through right gnosis. He teaches the Dhamma …

3. There is the disciple of that Teacher who is a learner, following the way, erudite, endowed with [good] practices and principles. He, too, teaches the Dhamma …