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Bhikkhu: : Bhikkhu

In Pāli, a bhikkhu (male) or bhikkhuni (female) is a fully ordained Buddhist monk. The respective Sanskrit versions are bhikṣu and bhikṣunī. The word literally translates as "beggar" or more broadly as "one who lives by alms". It is philologically analysed in the Pali commentary of the Buddhaghosa as "the person who sees danger (in samsara or cycle of rebirth)" (Pali = bhayam. ikkhatīti bhikkhu) He therefore seeks ordination in order to release from it. A bhikkhu has taken a vow to enter the Sangha (

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Bhikkhu: Encyclopedia - Bhikkhu In Pāli, a bhikkhu (male) or bhikkhuni (female) is a fully ordained Buddhist monk. The respective Sanskrit versions are bhikṣu and bhikṣunī. The word literally translates as "beggar" or more broadly as "one who lives by alms". It is philologically analysed in the Pali commentary of the Buddhaghosa as "the person who sees danger (in samsara or cycle of rebirth)" (Pali = bhayam. ikkhatīti bhikkhu) He therefore seeks ordination in order to release from it. A bhikkhu has taken a vow to enter the Sangha (

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Bhikkhu: Encyclopedia - Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, he obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College (1966) and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School (1972). Drawn to Buddhism in his early 20s, after completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late Ven. Ananda Maitreya, ...

Bhikkhu: Four Things Increase

Buddhist Quotes: Four Things Increase

If you're respectful by habit,

constantly honoring the worthy,

four things increase:

long life, beauty,

happiness, strength.

- Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: No Fellowship with Fools

Buddhist Quotes: No Fellowship with Fools

If, in your course, you don’t meet

your equal, your better,

then continue your course

firmly,

alone.

There’s no fellowship with fools.

- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: The Advice of the Buddhas

Buddhist Quotes: The Advice of the Buddhas

Not to do any evil,

To cultivate good,

To purify one's mind--

This is the advice of the Buddhas.

- Dhammapada, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: Attention Is Living

Buddhist Quotes: Attention Is Living

Attention is living; inattention is dying.

The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already.

- Dhammapada 21, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: Don't Give Way to Heedlessness

Buddhist Quotes: Don't Give Way to Heedlessness

Don't give way to heedlessness

or to intimacy

with sensual delight--

for a heedful person,

absorbed in jhana,

attains an abundance of ease.

- Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Bhikkhu: Like the Snowy Himalayas

Buddhist Quotes: Like the Snowy Himalayas

The good shine from afar

Like the snowy Himalayas.

The bad don't appear

Even when near,

Like arrows shot into the night.

- Dhammapada, 21, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: A Thousand-Thousand Men

Buddhist Quotes: A Thousand-Thousand Men

Greater in battle

than the man who would conquer

a thousand-thousand men,

is he who would conquer

just one--

himself.

- Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: This Body Is Perishable

Buddhist Quotes: This Body Is Perishable

This body, bhikkhus, is perishable, consciousness is of a nature to dissolve, and all objects of clinging are impermanent, suffering and subject to change.

- Itivuttaka

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Bhikkhu: Be Gentle

Buddhist Quotes: Be Gentle

Not by harming life

Does one become noble.

One is termed noble

For being gentle

To all living things.

- Dhammapada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: : Buddhadasa

Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (Thai: พุทธทาสภิกขุ, May 27, 1906 - May 25, 1993) was one of the most influential Theravada Buddhist monks of the 20th century. Known as an innovative interpreter of Buddhist beliefs, Buddhadasa helped reform Buddhism in his home country of Thailand and inspired persons such as Pridi Phanomyong, leader of that country's 1932 revolution, and the Thai social activists of the 1960s. Buddhadasa - Early Years. Born in 1906 as Nguam Panid in Phumriang (Chaiya district) i ...

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Bhikkhu: Guard What's Won

Buddhist Quotes: Guard What's Won

Knowing this body

is like a clay jar,

securing this mind

like a fort,

attack Mara

with the spear of discernment,

then guard what's won

without settling there,

without laying claim.

- Dhammapada, 3, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: Like a Frontier Fortress

Buddhist Quotes: Like a Frontier Fortress

Like a frontier fortress,

guarded inside & out,

guard yourself.

Don't let the moment pass by.

Those for whom the moment is past

grieve, consigned to hell.

- Dhammapada, 22, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: Glory Grows

Buddhist Quotes: Glory Grows

Those with initiative,

mindful,

clean in action,

acting with due consideration,

heedful, restrained,

living the Dharma:

their glory

grows.

Through initiative, heedfulness,

restraint, & self-control,

the wise would make

an island

no flood

can submerge.

- Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: The Fruiting Bamboo

Buddhist Quotes: The Fruiting Bamboo

The teaching of those

who live in the Dhamma,

worthy ones, noble:

whoever maligns it

--a dullard

inspired by evil view--

bears fruit for his own destruction,

like the fruiting bamboo.

- Dhammapada, 12, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: The Monk

Buddhist Quotes: The Monk

The monk delighting in heedfulness,

seeing danger in heedlessness,

advances like a fire,

burning fetters

great & small.

The monk delighting in heedfulness,

seeing danger in heedlessness

--incapable of falling back--

stands right on the verge

of Unbinding.

- Dhammapada, 2, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: The Supreme Refuge

Buddhist Quotes: The Supreme Refuge

They go to many a refuge,

To mountains, forests,

Parks, trees, & shrines:

People threatened with danger.

That's not the secure refuge,

Not the supreme refuge,

That's not the refuge,

Having gone to which

You gain release

From all suffering & stress.

- Dhammapada, 14, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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Bhikkhu: The Dhamma of the Good

Buddhist Quotes: The Dhamma of the Good

Even royal chariots

well-embellished

get run down,

and so does the body

succumb to old age.

But the Dhamma of the good

doesn't succumb to old age:

the good let the civilized know.

- Dhammapada, 11, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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