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| VV.AA. (R. Bogoda, Susan Elbaum Jootla, & M.O'C. Walshe) The Buddhist Layman IntraText - Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1503 1 | and through it character shines. The development of personality
1504 3 | In so doing we may get a shock. ~By the ego (or self)
1505 2 | in an office, factory or shop -- we will always feel the
1506 3 | ego-boosting as the padded shoulders worn by the tough: indeed
1507 2 | the boss gets annoyed and shouts at us, we remind ourselves
1508 4 | society and individuals 'showing more and more taste for
1509 3 | of Dependent Origination shows by selecting twelve prominent
1510 4 | keeping our mental eyes tight shut while all the time pretending
1511 4 | want to help the poor, the sick, the oppressed, the suffering.
1512 1 | Buddha explained to young Sigãla the reciprocal relationships
1513 1 | with other people. ~In the Sigãlovãda Sutta, the Buddha explained
1514 3 | existing. It is not a pretty sight. Underneath all our lofty
1515 4 | then? He becomes what is significantly called an agitator. Now
1516 3 | full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'. How can we solve
1517 1(1)| 1976).--Dr. Padmasiri de Silva, Buddhist Economics (Bodhi
1518 4 | party politics or for other similar, perhaps semi-political
1519 2 | responsibility for killing involved. Similarly, anyone trying to follow
1520 3 | exaggerated modesty and simpering sweetness, or of unnecessary
1521 3 | is not repression. In its simplest form it can be something
1522 1 | decides to practise voluntary simplicity and finds a new freedom;
1523 4 | We accordingly have the simultaneous picture of more and more
1524 3 | has worn off. You have, I sincerely hope, tried to do a bit
1525 1 | person, there is nothing sinful or shameful in sex, nor
1526 1 | protection of father, mother, sister, brother or guardian, including
1527 2 | revolving in dukkha, and so sits back and does only the barest
1528 1 | Four Great Efforts (the sixth step of the path) - to the
1529 2 | not indulge in gossip or slander -- 'office or academic politics' --
1530 1 | sexual misconduct, lying, slandering, harsh speech, gossip, covetousness,
1531 1 | who attempted to abolish slavery, in which term is also included
1532 2 | trading in human beings as slaves or for prostitution is limited,
1533 2 | However, if we let the Dhamma slide and allow our daily routine
1534 4 | within, so it is not the slightest bit of use looking outside
1535 2 | phenomena, but we often slip into ignorance of this factor
1536 2 | objects, our work will be slowed down and perhaps inadequately
1537 2 | the anicca sensations and slowly it will decrease in frequency
1538 1(1)| See E.F.S. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful. (Blond & Briggs,
1539 1 | to other people to get on smoothly with them. Human relationships -
1540 1 | and without. It promotes soberness of mind and habit together
1541 1 | will be both democratic and socialistic, with liberty, equality,
1542 1 | from which one came nor the societal class into which one was
1543 1 | of today - a new and just socio-economic order based on Buddhist
1544 1 | Their lives mould robbers, soldiers, chaplains, kings.~What
1545 2 | people whose livelihood is solely dependent on hunting or
1546 1 | spiritual. It is the only true solution to the manifold problems
1547 2 | and sort out appropriate solutions. Concentration is one of
1548 2 | scheming up more plans or 'solving problems' without rest or
1549 3 | acts of hate committed by somebody else. ~What can we do about
1550 4 | equivalent of saying 'I have a sore place which I dare not touch.'
1551 3 | it to the poor'. He went sorrowfully away. ~What then must we
1552 0 | shares the joys and the sorrows of the Order;* He places
1553 3 | and touch and hear -- all sorts of things and it doesn't
1554 1 | absurdity is to create another source of unhappiness. ~One should
1555 1 | effect. We reap what we sow, in proportion to the sowing.
1556 1 | sow, in proportion to the sowing. Good begets good and evil,
1557 1 | knows how to go through space and sail across the seas,
1558 2 | arise in reaction to his sparks. ~Whenever a businessman
1559 4 | detached we have, so to speak, 'accepted the unacceptable'.
1560 1 | decisions between, broadly speaking, skilful (kusala) and unskilful (
1561 1 | and heedful in mind. He speaks only that which is true
1562 1 | that they belong to one species. Social classes and castes
1563 1 | his attitude should be to specific matters like self, job,
1564 2 | Path. For a businessman to spend all his waking hours involved
1565 1 | part of our waking life is spent in earning a living. So
1566 1 | potential, in the appropriate sperm and ovum of his human parents
1567 2 | Unrelenting effort in the mundane sphere is summarized by the Buddha
1568 2 | will be applied in all the spheres of life, including work.
1569 1 | and spiritual life. The spirit may be willing but the flesh
1570 2 | trade in flesh, trade in spirits [intoxicants] and trade
1571 1 | hollow as a bamboo when split. The result is frustration
1572 0 | Lotus-like Lay-follower~Thus spoke the Buddha: ~ A lay-follower (
1573 1 | at home, too. Unhappiness spreads. Likewise, business life
1574 2 | may fall into the trap of squandering pure Dhamma for material
1575 1 | Buddhist nations, including Sri Lanka, were moulded and
1576 1 | there is likelihood of stagnation and disinclination to further
1577 1 | person's happiness is at stake and possibly, that of another -
1578 1 | carries with it the indelible stamp of truth and is, therefore,
1579 1 | strive to maintain a Buddhist standard of conduct whatever disappointments
1580 1 | some degree of detachment, standing as it were apart from them.
1581 4 | point of fact, from the standpoint of the Buddhist training
1582 1 | is far from it. Buddhism stands for a society of equals,
1583 1 | world. ~In the opening stanza of the Dhammapada the Buddha
1584 1 | They provide the guiding star round which others, too
1585 3 | it is certainly no less startling than the first one: the
1586 1 | of conduct. As the Buddha stated: ~Not by birth is one an
1587 2 | having to exaggerate one's statements or omit disadvantageous
1588 2 | concentration is clear and his mind stays firmly with the materials
1589 2 | seize it, thieves may not steal it, nor fire burn it, nor
1590 3 | Wisdom without Faith is sterile. Energy unaccompanied by
1591 1 | wants leads not to peace and stillness of mind, but only to chronic
1592 4 | a system of artificially stimulated craving all along the line.
1593 1 | wants, often by arousing and stimulating the undesirable and lower
1594 1 | also avoid situations and stimuli likely to excite sexual
1595 4 | it his duty to go out and stir up the emotions of other
1596 1 | of detachment to life's storms is the only sound philosophy
1597 3 | one of us. We all know the story of the Emperor's new clothes,
1598 1 | Expounding the Doctrine and Straightening one's views. The unskilled
1599 4 | tension, is probably tense and strained. He should first try to
1600 1 | national life were woven the strands of His Teaching. ~It is
1601 3 | and the Sangha for refuge' strangely comforting. And so it should
1602 1 | in the onwards carrying stream of Buddhist ideas and ideals. ~ ~
1603 2 | and zeal, collected by the strength of his arm, by the sweat
1604 3 | do this, and faith will strengthen our will to persevere. Clearing
1605 4 | importance is repeatedly stressed under various aspects throughout
1606 1 | essential for existence, it also stresses that man does not live by
1607 1 | what form misfortune may strike him. Against suffering,
1608 3 | resemblance is sometimes striking. Of course the compensation
1609 2 | today's complex economic structures, it is very difficult to
1610 2 | communicate information to his students. ~ ~In addition to this
1611 3 | alone, but if you haven't studied the theory to some extent
1612 1 | Buddha's attitude towards stupefying drugs and intoxicants is
1613 1 | and by developing a life style in accordance with it, the
1614 1 | spiritual welfare of its subjects. ~While Buddhism recognises
1615 1 | Much can be done by sublimating the instinct by diverting
1616 1 | is also an entrance. Each subsequent individual born is not the
1617 3 | contingent or adjectival, not substantival. The further implications
1618 3 | the way of uncovering the subterfuges of the ego. The Buddha described
1619 3 | Insights often come very subtly. ~People's motives for
1620 1 | at all times. If one has succeeded in meditative practice,
1621 1 | continuity; that is to say, each succeeding birth depends upon, or emerges
1622 2 | neither. If the meditator succeeds in appying sîla (morality),
1623 4 | amusement. By so doing we may suddenly discover that some of the
1624 3 | while Concentration without sufficient Energy leads to sloth. It
1625 3 | mundane wisdom has been sufficiently developed, a basis has been
1626 1 | the scheme of things. It suggests the lines of conduct, supported
1627 4 | own emotions having been suitably stirred up, he feels it
1628 4 | breathing is a method that suits practically everybody. First
1629 2 | in the mundane sphere is summarized by the Buddha in a discourse
1630 3 | required, in fact. This can be summed up in one word - restraint.
1631 3 | also the id and even the super-ego. Though not wholly adequate,
1632 1 | doctrine based on the alleged superiority of any caste, class or race,
1633 2 | favourable at present, if our superiors are pleased with our work,
1634 0 | disregarding belief in superstitions and omens; he will not accept
1635 0 | he is virtuous; he is not superstitious; he believes in action (
1636 1 | ethical principles shall supplant privilege and chaos. But
1637 1 | respectful to his wife, supply her needs and give her due
1638 4 | to hang the executioner. Supporters of capital punishment often
1639 4 | twist. You may say 'Yes, I suppose that's true. But somehow
1640 3 | have to know where we are supposed to be going. The goal of
1641 4 | it is, out there, that is supposedly causing this dukkha, or
1642 1 | the Buddha declared the supremacy of mind over matter: "Mind
1643 3 | frustration, the one permanent and supremely desirable thing. Buddhism
1644 3 | undivided attention. This is the surest way to achieve calm, concentration,
1645 3 | happens. You may get some surprises, but whatever happens you
1646 4 | quite unconscious part. And surprisingly often too they are really
1647 3 | a bit in your new mental surroundings and trying to take stock
1648 3 | blockage we have is that which surrounds the ego-idea. Since it is
1649 2 | PATH IN THE WORKING LIFE ~Susan Elbaum Jootla ~The question
1650 1 | laity should support and sustain the monks and other holy
1651 4 | accompanied by initial and sustained application (vitakka-vicãra),
1652 4 | passionately'. They are under the sway of emotions, not all of
1653 2 | strength of his arm, by the sweat of his brow, justly acquired
1654 1 | in accordance with facts, sweet, peaceable and helpful.
1655 3 | exaggerated modesty and simpering sweetness, or of unnecessary and slightly
1656 1 | Loving Kindness, Compassion., Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity, besides
1657 1 | evolution of a perfect Man synonymous with the attainment of Nibbãna
1658 1 | beliefs and desires. Some systems emphasise the latter; the
1659 1 | lines results in charm, tact and tolerance - essential
1660 3 | expense-account johnnie, the take-over charlie: he is anybody who
1661 3 | exception are simply 'a tale told by an idiot, full of
1662 1 | intoxicants and harmful lying, tale-bearing, harsh words and idle talk. ~
1663 1 | improvement of one's resources and talents, acquired or inherited,
1664 1 | tale-bearing, harsh words and idle talk. ~The Buddha's attitude
1665 2 | distinguish relevant from tangential issues, and sort out appropriate
1666 3 | sympathy or of more apparently tangible satisfactions in the way
1667 1 | thinker in known history to teach the doctrine of human equality,
1668 3 | requires certain methods or techniques. But the great thing is
1669 4 | of it that they go about telling themselves and others that
1670 1 | comes his way. Buddhism tells him the meaning and purpose
1671 1 | disappointments and the pain of temporal life. Now, the one and only
1672 2 | businessman's perpetual tendency towards "rapacity for gain
1673 1 | the perpetuation of social tensions and conflict, and will never
1674 3 | this respect seems to come terribly easy to many people. Intuition,
1675 4 | attitude in the context of my theme, which is detachment. So
1676 4 | as the -- now -- rather theoretical one mentioned. I am arguing
1677 1 | security of Nibbãna and, therewith, freedom from repeated births
1678 2 | kings may not seize it, thieves may not steal it, nor fire
1679 1 | or basic urges of hunger, thirst and sex as well a host of
1680 3 | to know one's emotions as thoroughly as possible. When these
1681 | thou
1682 1 | right direction and drive. A thoughtful lay Buddhist will not simply
1683 1 | and free himself from the thralldom of base desire, the blindness
1684 0 | world); see Anguttara, The Threes, No. 40. ~ ~ ~
1685 | throughout
1686 1 | freedom here on earth were thrown open to all, regardless
1687 1 | Existence (life) was not thrust on him by an unseen Deity
1688 3 | Mahãyãna, in the form of Zen, Tibetan Buddhism and several other
1689 4 | up? What really makes him tick? The answer to this question
1690 4 | keeping our mental eyes tight shut while all the time
1691 1 | practise sexual self-restraint till such time as he is able
1692 1 | round which others, too timid to lead but strong enough
1693 2 | that he becomes skilful and tireless. He is endowed with the
1694 1(3)| intended to provoke sexual tittilation. ~
1695 1 | and thereby make possible tomorrow the seemingly impossible
1696 4 | about ourselves that we once took with deadly seriousness
1697 1 | life. Now, the one and only tool he has at his disposal to
1698 2 | defilement of sloth and torpor, and probably ill-will as
1699 2 | we are not living by the totality of the Path; and without
1700 3 | padded shoulders worn by the tough: indeed the resemblance
1701 4 | knitted brows and a wet towel round his head, who is desperately
1702 1 | Their lives mould farmers, tradesmen, merchants, serfs; ~Their
1703 1 | duties and maintain family traditions;. teachers must train and
1704 1 | term is also included the traffic in, and the sale of, females
1705 3 | grows inevitable as one trains oneself in Buddhism, and
1706 1 | Meditation, Reverence, Service, Transference of merit, Rejoicing in others'
1707 1 | Knowledge and discipline may transform a society into a workshop
1708 3 | term which is misleadingly translated. The German for 'repression'
1709 2 | driver may sometimes have to transport arms or poison. Often one
1710 2 | meditator may fall into the trap of squandering pure Dhamma
1711 3 | murderous rage, sadism, treachery and disloyalty of every
1712 1 | can depend for the same treatment and sound guidance grounded
1713 4 | who wish to oppose such a trend will need to be very careful
1714 1 | Guide Incomparable to a troubled world. ~
1715 3 | the root-cause of all our troubles. The three unhealthy roots
1716 2 | mosquitoes and their larvae, a truck driver may sometimes have
1717 1 | to the restlessness and turmoil that is life. ~ ~Kamma,
1718 1 | Simply neglect such thoughts, turning your mind either to beneficial
1719 3 | Origination shows by selecting twelve prominent factors how it
1720 4 | an interesting and subtle twist. You may say 'Yes, I suppose
1721 1 | children duly cherishing, ~Types of work unconflicting, ~
1722 2 | the tradition of Sayaji U Ba Khin), we have acquired
1723 4 | is probably dominated by uddhacca-kukkucca 'restlessness and worry',
1724 1 | refers to indecision or un-steadiness in the particular thing
1725 4 | to speak, 'accepted the unacceptable'. As a result of this practice
1726 3 | Faith is sterile. Energy unaccompanied by Concentration can easily
1727 1 | own sake will only lead to unbridled acquisitiveness and self-indulgence
1728 1 | things as they really are. Uncertainty and change are the keynotes
1729 1 | the Deathless and of the unconditioned freedom beyond, and of social
1730 1 | cherishing, ~Types of work unconflicting, ~This, the Highest Blessing. ~
1731 3 | impossible. It is the way of uncovering the subterfuges of the ego.
1732 3 | just a technique of self undeception. This is not easy, though
1733 1 | neither overestimating nor underestimating one's capacities and capabilities.
1734 3 | It is not a pretty sight. Underneath all our lofty ideals, our
1735 1 | genuine love, sympathy and understandinug for fellow-men, guided by
1736 2 | suffering. ~When we have undertaken the task of removing all
1737 4 | withdrawal which the individual undertakes may vary considerably -
1738 1 | arousing and stimulating the undesirable and lower elements of human
1739 3 | as you can manage, with undivided attention. This is the surest
1740 1 | but their promotion will undoubtedly foster healthier inter-personal
1741 1 | The five hindrances are undue attachment to sensual desire,
1742 1 | discerning lay Buddhist is not unduly elated nor upset by the
1743 1 | flesh may prove to be weak. Unemployment and economic insecurity
1744 3 | suffering. We do not, as unenlightened individuals, know what this
1745 3 | books about most of them. Unguided and indiscriminate reading
1746 3 | the egoless state, it is unimaginable and therefore frightening
1747 1 | In His teaching all men unite, lose identity, even as
1748 1 | a natural outcome of the Universal Law of Kamma; Kamma is one
1749 2 | getting good grades at the university, or if any other pleasant
1750 1 | It is not easy for an unmarried adult to practise sexual
1751 1 | they truly are, we, often unmindful of the rights of others,
1752 3 | that we find life frankly unnerving, in fact, because insecure.
1753 3 | conquest of self is genuine unobtrusiveness. ~The formula of Dependent
1754 1 | shelter in a world of delusive unreality or phantasy. ~ ~To remedy
1755 2 | ignorance of this factor and unreasonably try to prolong favourable
1756 4 | punishment is a victim of his own unresolved aggression and insecurity,
1757 2 | that is their impermanency, unsatisfactoriness and egolessness. This understanding
1758 1 | not thrust on him by an unseen Deity to whose will he must
1759 1 | Straightening one's views. The unskilled actions are rooted in greed,
1760 1 | minority at the expense of the unthinking majority, based on the intensification
1761 3 | learn to see. A-VID-YA 'unwitting' or not seeing is no mere
1762 2 | license to indulge in great upãdãna, -- that is, in clinging,
1763 0 | Buddha: ~ A lay-follower (upasaka) who has five qualities
1764 1 | the duty of the state to uphold justice, and provide for
1765 1 | compassionate to all, honest and upright, pure and chaste, sober
1766 3 | so much more difficult to uproot. From the psychological
1767 1 | have one's share of life's ups and downs. ~He looks at
1768 1 | is not unduly elated nor upset by the eight worldly conditions
1769 1 | every choice, one moves upwards or downwards, ascends or
1770 1(2)| freedom from the sexual urge. ~
1771 1 | Nibbãna. If there is an urgent felt need, the ideal has
1772 1 | satisfy the primary or basic urges of hunger, thirst and sex
1773 2 | slaughter as meat or for other uses that may be made of the
1774 1 | just and righteous society ushering in a period of great prosperity:
1775 4 | sexual matters has become usual. In any case, it is clear
1776 3 | emotions, and this is immensely valuable. Perhaps the most widespread
1777 2 | to which it is developed varies considerably between individuals.
1778 3 | Buddhism and several other varieties. There are numerous books
1779 1 | reduce both the intensity and variety. As the Dhammapada states: ~
1780 3 | a 'self' and we expend a vast amount of energy in trying
1781 2 | and the Householder" by Ven. Acharya Buddharakkhita,
1782 1 | carry with it the risks of venereal infection. A compassionate
1783 4 | attachment to ignorance with a vengeance. No wonder it is frustrating,
1784 4 | ought to be like. Or we can vent our ill-temper on it in
1785 3 | psychoanalytical sense is Verdrãngung, 'thrusting away'. It is
1786 2 | are confronted with the vibrations of a big city or the workplace,
1787 2 | endure -- no matter what vicissitudes we have to face. At any
1788 1 | chance, are, if correctly viewed, the result of ignorance
1789 3 | Clearly a certain amount of vigour is required to do this,
1790 1 | consciousness (patisandhi viññãna), using the mechanism of
1791 1 | education without resorting to violence; worthy aims must be realised
1792 2 | meditator will find that vipasssanã has enhanced his one-pointedness
1793 4 | often is not his opponent in virtually the same case! A slight
1794 0 | He has faith; he is virtuous; he is not superstitious;
1795 2 | harmful to bacteria and viruses, not because he hates the '
1796 1 | nothing belongs to us. We can visualise everything else being taken
1797 4 | and sustained application (vitakka-vicãra), is born of detachment (
1798 4 | is born of detachment (viveka) and filled with rapture
1799 3 | their essence, which is voidness. When this lower, still
1800 3 | available in English, are voluminous. There is Theravãda and
1801 1 | employees, give adequate wages, ensure satisfactory conditions
1802 1 | nevertheless, it is a fight worth waging and a goal worth winning. ~(
1803 3 | and true enlightenment, or wakefulness. We can therefore usefully
1804 3 | leadership of Mindfulness, let us walk on. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
1805 1 | of a man is to feel he is wanted in the world. Of human
1806 3 | a lot of credit for not wanting some of them or at least
1807 2 | in one's own control. To wantonly give away one's hard-earned
1808 2 | living? Is work a total waste -- just a means to the end
1809 4 | instance, the emotion or the watcher? Or neither, or both? By
1810 2 | it, nor fire burn it, nor water carry it off, nor ill-disposed
1811 1 | identity, even as do the waters of the rivers that flow
1812 1 | the flesh may prove to be weak. Unemployment and economic
1813 2 | they arise, they will be weaker. Becoming impatient with
1814 1 | both of these goals is the weapon of the mind, which, under
1815 3 | we go round and round the weary circle of rebirths, and
1816 2 | meditator generally has a well-developed faculty of concentration
1817 1 | development of man into a well-rounded, happy human being in the
1818 3 | give it to the poor'. He went sorrowfully away. ~What
1819 1 | clue to the paradox of the Western civilization that knows
1820 4 | furiously knitted brows and a wet towel round his head, who
1821 | whence
1822 2 | is indoors or outdoors, white collar or blue collar or
1823 1 | and maintain all that is wholesome, as for instance, wise friendship,
1824 3 | valuable. Perhaps the most widespread meditational practice in
1825 4 | situation, we must have some willingness to understand it. So we
1826 1 | mist of a delusive self, to win the highest of all freedoms -
1827 1 | waging and a goal worth winning. ~(d) Social Relationships
1828 4 | that in a calmer atmosphere wiser counsels may have a chance
1829 4 | this be the case, those who wish to oppose such a trend will
1830 1 | over others, fame and name, wishing to go on living forever.
1831 1 | of a deflated "I", and to withdraw from the realities and responsibilities
1832 4 | physical detachment and withdrawal which the individual undertakes
1833 1 | means sexual union with the wives of others or those under
1834 1 | worlds of bliss, below the woeful states of sorrow. With every
1835 1 | matters then is not the womb from which one came nor
1836 2 | the circumstances, be they work-related or otherwise, is precisely
1837 2 | more accurate decisions, a workman to avoid accidents, and
1838 1 | transform a society into a workshop or a military camp, but
1839 4 | own mind'. ~Let us leave world-problems now and turn to the problem
1840 1 | Above are the celestial worlds of bliss, below the woeful
1841 2 | hampered and held back by worries about the past or fears
1842 3 | wholeheartedly in anything worthwhile. When we say 'I take refuge
1843 4 | has really happened to our would-be reformer is that, his own
1844 1 | fabric of national life were woven the strands of His Teaching. ~
1845 1 | only, as it is sometimes wrongly conceived. In a large number
1846 1 | of things as it truly is (yathã bhûtã ñãna dassana). All
1847 3 | recently, or within the last year or so, begun to take Buddhism
1848 2 | diminish. So when our superior yells at us and we in turn get
1849 2 | of, obtained by work and zeal, collected by the strength