The Buddhist Path
The progressive practice which leads to liberation.
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Table of Contents
- Articles (10)
- Audio/Video (17)
- Booklets (19)
- Canonical Works (47)
- Essays (12)
- Excerpts (1)
- Monographs (6)
- Reference Shelf (1)
- Subtopics (3)
Articles (10)
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A dense and Pāli-laden survey explaining the different kinds of vimutti (liberation).
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how lust, hatred, delusion and other negative emotions are considered to cause physical and mental pain among [unenlightened beings]
Audio/Video (17)
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A more detailed commentary on MN 2 (the Sabbāsava Sutta).
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A talk giving a comprehensive overview of Buddhist practice, based on MN 2 (the Sabbāsava Sutta).
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Ayya Santussika gives a guided meditation, followed by a talk about her own practice of The Sallekha Sutta.
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But one day your body’s gonna say, “No, I can no longer do it.” Your body becomes old, sick or incapacitated. You cannot do anything. Then, people may think about killing themselves, right? But if you have peace from meditation, then you don’t need the body. Whatever happens to the body doesn’t bother you. You can still have peace and happiness directly. You don’t need a medium like the body and the things that the body consumes to make it happy. All you need is mindfulness to calm your mind, to stop your mind.
But it’s not easy. Mindfulness doesn’t come easily but it’s not impossible. You just have to concentrate on your effort to be mindful
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An introduction to the contemplation of the Buddha and the use of faith on the path.
Booklets (19)
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A short anthology of texts from the Pali Canon framed by the Noble Eightfold Path. An excellent study guide.
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an anthology of discourse excerpts from the Pāli Canon […] best used by readers who have already spent time in study and look to focus more on their practice. It can also be helpful for someone who likes to dive right into practice and prefers to keep reading to a minimum.
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Tucked away in the Samyutta Nikaya among the “connected sayings on causality” is a short formalized text entitled the Upanisa Sutta, the “Discourse on Supporting Conditions.” Though at first glance hardly conspicuous among the many interesting suttas in this collection, this little discourse turns out upon repeated examination to be of tremendous doctrinal importance.
Canonical Works (47)
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All of the monks and nuns who declare in my presence that they have attained perfection, did so by one or other of four paths.
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They focus on the cessation of identification, and their mind is eager, confident, settled, and decided about it. You’d expect that mendicant to stop identifying.
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a bhikkhu who is without ardour and without fear of wrongdoing is incapable of attaining enlightenment
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Diverse problems demand a diverse range of responses. Rather than selling a “one size fits all” solution, in this sutta the Buddha outlines seven methods for dealing with the afflictions of life and in so doing gives us a comprehensive overview of Buddhist practices.
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A beautiful and somewhat unusual description of the path to stream entry and beyond.
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‘Others will be cruel; we shall not be cruel here’
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a monk who is endowed with these fifteen factors including exertion, it is possible for [him to attain] breakthrough, it is possible for [him to attain] awakening, it is possible for [him to attain] arrival at unsurpassable security from bondage.
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So this holy life, bhikkhus, does not have gain, honour, and renown for its benefit, or the attainment of virtue for its benefit, or the attainment of concentration for its benefit, or knowledge and vision for its benefit. But it is this unshakeable deliverance of mind that is the goal of this holy life, its heartwood, and its end.
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Venerable Ānanda discusses the qualities of a noble trainee.
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a young tender infant lying prone does not even have the notion ‘identity,’ so how could identity view arise in him?
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And even those disciples of his who fall out with their companions in the holy life and abandon the training to return to the low life–even they praise the Master and the Dhamma and the Sangha; they blame themselves instead of others, saying: “We were unlucky, we have little merit”
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how a wise lay follower should advise another wise lay follower who is sick
Essays (12)
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There is no single “swiss-army knife” technique that works equally well at all times; instead, we must carefully examine our present conditions and determine what practice is most relevant.
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Kammaṭṭhāna meditation should be practised so as to reach Nibbāna, thereby escaping from all kinds of misery
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So, keep on practicing. There’s nothing to be afraid of. You’ll have to reap results, there’s no doubt about it.