Ven. Akshay Kamble

Title- Associates of Enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma s ) Bodhipakkhiya is the combination of the Pali words: Bodhi, pakkha and iya . Bodhi means Magga-nana or Enlightenment of the Four Ariya Truths. Bodhipakkhiya means the components or associates of Enlightenment. Mindfulness (Sati), effort (viriya), etc., are called the factors associated with Enlightenment. The Bodhipakkhiya dhammas consist of Thirteen-Seven Factors, namely:     The 4 foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana),    The 4 supreme efforts (Sammappadhana),     The 4 bases of accomplishment (Iddhipada),     The 5 faculties (Indriya),     The 5 powers (Bala),     The 7 factors of enlightenment (Bhojjhanga) and     The 8 constituents of the path (magganga). Explanation of the 4 foundations of mindfulness (Satipatthana) Satipatthana means mindfulness or heedfulness which is firmly established on its objects....

21meditation for the Shamatha 🙏🙏 སེམས་གནས་དགུ ༡༽སེམས་འཇོག་པ།  ༢༽རྒྱུན་དུ་འཇོག་པ།  ༣༽གླན་ཏེ་འཇོག་པ།  ༤༽ཉེ་བར་འཇོག་པ།  ༥༽དུལ་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༦༽ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༧༽རྣམ་པར་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ།  ༨༽རྩེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ།  ༩༽མཉམ་པར་འཇོག་པ་སྟེ་དགུ Deepening Calm-Abiding- The Nine Stages of Abiding  1) Stage Stabilising in the Mind  2) Stage Continuous Stabilising  3) Stage Habitual Stabilisation  4) Stage Near Stabilsation  5) Stage Habituation  6) Stage Pacifying  7) Stage Thorough Pacification  8)Stage Becoming One-Pointed  9) Stage Entrance into Samadhi  The elephant is the example of the mind for: If an elephant is wild, it is very dangerous to all other animals. Likewise, if the mind is not tamed it harms others. All suffering is caused by the untamed mind.  An elephant once tamed obeys its master better than any other animal; even if the master were to say pick up a very large hot ball with ...

THE FIRST DISCOURSE OF THE BUDDHA DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANA SUTTA Thus have I heard: On one occasion the Exalted One was residing at the Deer Park,[2] in Isipatana,[3] near Benares. Thereupon the Exalted One addressed the group of five Bhikkhus as follows: "There are these two extremes (antā), O Bhikkhus, which should be avoided by one who has renounced (pabbajitena) -- (i) Indulgence in sensual pleasures [4]-- this is base, vulgar, worldly, ignoble and profitless; and, (ii) Addiction to self-mortification [5] -- this is painful, ignoble and profitless. Abandoning both these extremes the Tathāgata [6] has comprehended the Middle Path (Majjhima Patipadā) which promotes sight (cakkhu) and knowledge (ñāna), and which tends to peace (vupasamāya), [7] higher wisdom (abhiññāya), [8] enlightenment (sambodhāya), [9] and Nibbāna. What, O Bhikkhus, is that Middle Path the Tathāgata has comprehended which promotes sight and knowledge, and which tends to peace, higher wisdom, en...

#LITERARY_TERMS #PART_1 #Allegory A story or picture with two or more different meanings – a literal meaning and one or more symbolic meanings. The setting, characters, and things that happen inside an allegory are symbols for ideas or qualities. #Alliteration The repeating of consonant sounds. The repetition can be put side by side (for example, "sleepy sun sank slowly over the sea"). #Allusion A figure of speech which refers indirectly to a situation, and leaves the reader (or audience) to make the connection. #Analogy New words, ideas, or pronunciations become like the pattern of older or more familiar ones. Comparing two different things. The purpose of an analogy is to describe something unfamiliar or new with something that is more familiar. #Antagonist The character who the main character has the most conflict with. The antagonist is not always a person or animal, however: for example, the main character could have the most conflict again...

Loving-Kindness thus have i heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Park. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: “Bhikkhus!” “Venerable sir!” those bhikkhus replied. The Blessed One said this: “Bhikkhus, when the liberation of the mind by loving-kindness has been pursued, developed, and cultivated, made a vehicle and basis, carried out, consolidated, and properly undertaken, eight benefits are to be expected. What eight? ( 1) “One sleeps well;  (2) one awakens happily;  (3) one does not have bad dreams;  (4) one is pleasing to human beings;  (5) one is pleasing to spirits;  (6) deities protect one;  (7) fire, poison, and weapons do not injure one; and  (8) if one does not penetrate further, one moves on to the brahmā world. “When, bhikkhus, the liberation of the mind by loving-kindness has been pursued, developed, and cultivated, made a vehicle and ba...

The Aryan Eightfold Path   "And what, bhikkhus, is the Aryan Trust concerning the Way that leads to the Cessation of Ill?     "This is that Arayan Eightfold Path, to wit, right view, right aspirations, right speech, right doing, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right rapture.          "And w hat, bhikkhus, is right view?     " Knowledge, bhikkhus, about Ill, knowledge about the coming to be of Ill, knowledge about the cessation of Ill, knowledge about the way leads to the cessation of Ill, This is called right view.         ” And what, bhikkhus, is right aspirations?      "The aspirations towards renunciation, the aspirations towards benevolence, the aspiration towards kindness. This is what is called right aspirations.       "And what, bhikkhus, is right speech?      "Abstaining from lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk. T...

WHAT IS NOT DHAMMA?  Source: Buddha And His Dhamma- Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR  1. The Brahmins put all their emphasis upon knowledge. They taught that knowledge was the be-all and end-all of everything. Nothing further was to be considered.     2. The Buddha was on the other hand an upholder of education for all. Besides, he was more concerned with the use of knowledge a man is likely to make, than with knowledge itself.     3. Consequently he was very particular to emphasise that he who has knowledge must have Sila (Virtue), and that knowledge without Sila (Virtue) was most dangerous.     4. The importance of Sila, as against Prajna, is well illustrated by what he told the Bhikku Patisena.     5. In olden times when Buddha was residing at Sravasti, there was an old mendicant called Patisena who, being by nature cross and dull, could not learn so much as one Gatha by heart.     6. The Buddha accordingly ordered 500 Arahata...

ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD OR MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE INTRODUCTION : The Normans, who were residing in Normandy (France) defeated the Anglo-Saxon King at the Battle of Hastings (1066) and conquered England. The Norman Conquest inaugurated a distinctly new epoch in the literary as well as political history of England. The Anglo-Saxon authors were then as suddenly and permanently displaced as the Anglo-Saxon king. The literature afterwards read and written by Englishmen was thereby as completely transformed as the sentiments and tastes of English rulers. The foreign types of literature introduced after the Norman Conquest first found favour with the monarchs and courtiers, and were deliberately fostered by them, to the disregard of native forms. No effective protest was possible by the Anglo-Saxons, and English thought for centuries to come was largely fashioned in the manner of the French. Throughout the whole period, which we call the Middle English period (as belonging to the Midd...

The Story of Thera Belatthasisa 🍚 Thera Belatthasisa, after going on an alms-round in the village, stopped on the way and took his food there. After the meal, he continued his round of alms for more food. When he had collected enough food he returned to the monastery, dried up the rice and hoarded it. Thus, there was no need for him to go on an alms-round every day; he then remained in jhana concentration for two or three days. Arising from jhana concentration he ate the dried rice he had stored up, after soaking it in water. Other Bhikkhunis thought ill of the thera on this account, and reported to the Buddha about his hoarding of rice. Since then, the hoarding of food by the bhikkhus has been prohibited. As for Thera Belatthasisa, since he stored up rice before the ruling on hoarding was made and because he did it not out of greed for food, but only to save time for meditation practice, the Buddha declared that the thera was quite innocent and that he was not to be blamed. ...