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ENTS .345 31. The Practice of Austerities 347 32. Practising the Brahma-Faring 357 33. Seeing the Four Noble Truths 371 34. The Attainment of Nirvana 385 BLESSING GROUP X.: THE FRUITS OF HAVING PRACTISED UNTIL REACHING AN END OF 35. A Mind Invulnerable to Worldly Wa litag NTS 393 395 36. Sorr

ed bats. During the day the bats would return to the cave but at night they would fly outside to feed. Thus the bats would hear the chanting of the Abhidhamma every day. Even though the bats had no way of knowing the meaning of the chanting, they became familiar with the sound of the monk's chanting and

ntal Precepts for the bhikkhus (i.e., the PAEimokkha). Observing that the bhikkhus remained silent, Kapila said, 'There is no such thing as Sutta, Abhidhamma or Vinaya..lt makes no difference whether you listen to the PAEimokkha or not' and left the congregation. He had taught the Dhamma to others in a

e unwholesomeness is yet harder to observe. These fetters [anusaya] (D.iii.254, A.iv.8, Vbh.383) are like habits that stop us achieving the path to Nirvana: EFTA00286691 I. Sensual grasping [IcAmarAga]: 2. Irritability [paEigha] 3. Wrong View [diEthi] 4. Doubt [vicikicchA]: 5. Looking down on othe

e, and to raise up our morale giving us the means by which to definitively overcome those weak- nesses — ultimately attaining the path and fruit of Nirvana. C2 Predispositions acquired through listening to the Dhamma By listening to Dhamma sermons, even though we might not understand everything of wh

hAvaOsa-EEkA 190ff) In the time of Kassapa Buddha, there was a python which had dug a burrow just next to a cave where monks regularly chanted the Abhidhamma. The monks often chanted the verses concerning the sense doors [Ayatana] and how they should be re- EFTA00286757 strained. The python heard the c

h the provisions you have stored up for yourself through our generosity, you will be sure never to fall on hard times. 3. It is the direct path to Nirvana: It clears the way for doing other sorts of virtue with ease. To give an example, when peasants slaughter animals it is not that they don't know t

whole of one rainy-season retreat in TavatiOsa Heaven, through the might of his mental powers, in order to teach his late mother the whole of the Abhidhamma. His mother Queen MAyA had passed away only seven days after the birth of Prince Siddhartha. G.12 Et The Abandoned Brahmin Once, there lived in S