Dhamma shorts

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Chef May's Linchpin

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Four ways to hold people's hearts together — giving, kind speech, helpful action, and treating everyone as equals. They work at home and at work alike. #FourBasesOfSocialHarmony #howtodhamma

Teaching: The Four Bases of Social Harmony
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นอนไม่หลับ

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คนเราเดือดร้อนใจภายหลังได้สองทาง คือ "ความดีที่เราไม่ได้ทำ" และ "ความชั่วที่เราทำลงไป" — ส่วนผู้ทำดีไว้และไม่ได้ทำชั่ว ย่อมไม่เดือดร้อนทั้งสองทาง #อิติวุตตกะ: สองอย่างที่ทำให้เดือดร้อนใจภายหลัง #howtodhamma

Teaching: Itivuttaka: Two Things That Bring Remorse Later
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ปลอบทีละขั้น

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พระเจ้ามหานามทูลถามว่าอุบาสกผู้มีปัญญาควรปลอบอุบาสกผู้ป่วยหนักอย่างไร พระพุทธเจ้าทรงวางขั้นตอนไว้ ตั้งแต่ให้เบาใจด้วยธรรม ๔ ประการ ถามถึงความห่วงใยทีละเรื่อง ไปจนถึงนำจิตสู่ความดับสักกายะ #คิลายนสูตร: ปลอบผู้ป่วยหนักทีละขั้น #howtodhamma

Teaching: The Discourse on the Sick: Comforting the Gravely Ill Step by Step
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The Hook Called Fame

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Gain, honour and fame are harsh, bitter and rough — a fish that swallows the hook, a turtle caught on a line, a sheep snagged on thorns, a dung beetle that boasts, someone who wouldn't lie for gold but lies for fame, and Devadatta, whose gain arose to destroy himself. #LabhasakkaraSamyutta #howtodhamma

Teaching: The Connected Discourses on Gain and Honour: The Hook Called Fame
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Past Kamma?

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Illness and the various feelings we experience can arise from eight causes, and past kamma is only one of them — the Buddha rejected the belief that everything comes from past kamma. #SivakaSutta #howtodhamma

Teaching: The Sīvaka Discourse: Not Everything Is Due to Past Kamma
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Tor's Envelope

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Someone who cheats to support their family — could they plead that excuse before the wardens of hell? Venerable Sāriputta asks about each person we claim to do it for, and shows there are honest ways to provide for them too. #DhananjaniSutta #howtodhamma

Teaching: The Dhānañjāni Discourse: No Wrongdoing for Family's Sake
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Washing Away Evil at the Pier

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A water-carrying servant asked a brahmin who bathed in cold water every day to wash away evil: if water could wash away evil, then frogs, turtles and fish would all go to heaven. She showed him that the way out of suffering is to stop doing evil, go for refuge, and keep the precepts. #PunnikaTheri #howtodhamma

Teaching: Puṇṇikā Therī: Evil Can't Be Washed Away by Water
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The Rock Won't Float

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The headman Asibandhakaputta asked whether the Buddha could send everyone to heaven. He answered with the simile of a rock that sinks and ghee that rises, however anyone prays — together with the Caṇḍa Sutta: the fierce and the gentle differ in greed, hatred and delusion. #BhumakaSutta #howtodhamma

Teaching: The Bhūmaka Discourse: A Rock Does Not Rise Because of Prayers