There are these ten things that a person gone-forth should reflect on often. Which ten? |
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'I have become casteless': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'My life is dependent on others': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'My behavior should be different [from that of householders]' : a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'Can I fault myself with regard to my virtue? : a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'Can my knowledgeable fellows in the holy life, on close examination, fault me with regard to my virtue?' : a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'I will grow different, separate from all that is dear & appealing to me': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'I am the owner of my actions (kamma), heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'What am I becoming as the days & nights fly past?': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'Do I delight in an empty dwelling?': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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'Have I attained a superior human attainment, a truly noble distinction of knowledge & vision, such that — when my fellows in the holy life question me in the last days of my life — I won't feel abashed?': a person gone forth should often reflect on this. |
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These are the ten things that a person gone-forth should reflect on often. |
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Cập nhập ngày: Thứ Sáu 08-11-2006 Kỹ thuật tŕnh bày: Minh Hạnh & Thiện Pháp |