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Prae's Raft
AI-generatedStudying the Dhamma the wrong way is like grabbing a venomous snake by the tail, and the Dhamma is like a raft for crossing over, not for carrying on your head — two similes that warn both those who know little and those who know a lot. #SnakeAndRaft
Teaching: The Similes of the Snake and the Raftนอนไม่หลับ
AI-generatedคนเราเดือดร้อนใจภายหลังได้สองทาง คือ "ความดีที่เราไม่ได้ทำ" และ "ความชั่วที่เราทำลงไป" — ส่วนผู้ทำดีไว้และไม่ได้ทำชั่ว ย่อมไม่เดือดร้อนทั้งสองทาง #อิติวุตตกะ: สองอย่างที่ทำให้เดือดร้อนใจภายหลัง #howtodhamma
Teaching: Itivuttaka: Two Things That Bring Remorse Laterปลอบทีละขั้น
AI-generatedพระเจ้ามหานามทูลถามว่าอุบาสกผู้มีปัญญาควรปลอบอุบาสกผู้ป่วยหนักอย่างไร พระพุทธเจ้าทรงวางขั้นตอนไว้ ตั้งแต่ให้เบาใจด้วยธรรม ๔ ประการ ถามถึงความห่วงใยทีละเรื่อง ไปจนถึงนำจิตสู่ความดับสักกายะ #คิลายนสูตร: ปลอบผู้ป่วยหนักทีละขั้น #howtodhamma
Teaching: The Discourse on the Sick: Comforting the Gravely Ill Step by StepThe Hook Called Fame
AI-generatedGain, 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 FamePast Kamma?
AI-generatedIllness 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 KammaTor's Envelope
AI-generatedSomeone 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 SakeWashing Away Evil at the Pier
AI-generatedA 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 WaterChef May's Linchpin
AI-generatedFour 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