Having the Path as a guide is something to make full use of. Do I practise Right View? Do I practise Right Thought? Do I practise ...

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Freedom from illness: the foremost good fortune.
Contentment: the foremost wealth.
Trust: the foremost kinship.
Unbinding: the foremost ease.
~Dhammapada 204

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To achieve anything, whether it is wholesome, unwholesome or neutral, ‘the four bases of success’ need to be ...

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Keep reminding yourself ...
~Ven. Ajahn Suchart

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If you see that other people are suffering, and you’re in a position to help, you focus not on ...

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In the Saṅghāṭikaṇṇa Sutta, the Buddha says:

Though closely following behind,
Full of longings and resentment,
See how far away he is—

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While virtue concerns itself with actions and speech, the second aspect of the Buddhist training is meditation, or samadhi – a training of the mind and ...

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One should not think that sīla/moral behaviour is exclusively a human faculty, ...

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The idea of owning and hanging on to things is the illusion of the ...

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Give up anger, get rid of conceit,
and get past all the fetters. ...

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Habits are hard to break. Maybe we are able to see: ...

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You've given dāna before; that dāna ...

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With mettā, things are no longer seen as personal, there’s not me and you, ...

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In the Sikkhāpada Sutta, the Buddha says:

And what is a bad person?

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The Buddha encouraged us to practice until we have tamed our mind. We don't have to tame other people's minds. They have to learn that for themselves.
~Ajahn Kalyano

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The Dhamma is a condition that can cut through and reduce the problems and difficulties in the human heart—reducing them, reducing them until ...

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Suppose there was a tree that was complete with branches and foliage. Its shoots, bark, softwood, and heartwood would grow to fullness. ...

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So when we go to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha for Refuge, this isn’t just a catch-phrase; it’s a practice of ...

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When you look at the four noble truths and the fact that the Buddha is taking suffering as the main problem, you should focus your attention on...

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When we do not understand the reality of seeing, we may get lost in the things we see instead of recognizing that seeing is happening.

Seeing is such an obvious object that we may not recognize it as such, simply because we don't yet understand it.
~Sayadaw Tejaniya

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Hunger: the foremost illness.
Fabrications: the foremost pain.
For one knowing this truth
as it has come to be,
Unbinding
is the foremost ease.
~Dhammapada 203

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... wisdom operates by means of mindfulness, the function that bears in mind a particular topic, impulse, mood or sensation so that...

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Sādhu anumodāna 🙏

Sādhu anumodāna, thank you, John 🙏😊

If we're talking about realms of existence, yes, humans would be higher than animals.

But in this case, from the perspective of sīla & mettā, in the practice of harmlessness & goodwill, all living beings are equally entitled to life regardless of shape, size or realm of existence.

Hope this helps.