Post by jimjackson on Jan 23, 2011 14:31:42 GMT -5
This discussion took place as part of the reading from the book Happiness by Thich Nhat Hanh, pages 110-111; titled Traveling and Returning Home.
The source article provides practices that promote happiness and minimize dukkha while traveling, although the practices apply to everything we do to maintain happiness and minimize dukkha. We experience dukkha across a broad spectrum from mild discontent to suffering. Travel, whether it’s a long trip, across town, or around the corner, provides an opportunity to work with the Twelve Turnings of the Wheel through the Four Noble Truths.
The Twelve Turnings are described in what tradition tells us was the Buddha's first discourse - the Dhammackkappavattana Sutta. It describes a process the Buddha used to establish the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Noble Path. As a practice, the process taught in the sutta is to be used to overcome the dukkha we experience. With the process we apply three skills to each of the Four Noble Truths - hence, twelve turnings.
To hear the sutta read in English, go to [http://www.suttareadings.net]
You can download a copy of the Pali translation of the sutta by Nanamoli Thera from within this post.
The source article provides practices that promote happiness and minimize dukkha while traveling, although the practices apply to everything we do to maintain happiness and minimize dukkha. We experience dukkha across a broad spectrum from mild discontent to suffering. Travel, whether it’s a long trip, across town, or around the corner, provides an opportunity to work with the Twelve Turnings of the Wheel through the Four Noble Truths.
The Twelve Turnings are described in what tradition tells us was the Buddha's first discourse - the Dhammackkappavattana Sutta. It describes a process the Buddha used to establish the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Noble Path. As a practice, the process taught in the sutta is to be used to overcome the dukkha we experience. With the process we apply three skills to each of the Four Noble Truths - hence, twelve turnings.
To hear the sutta read in English, go to [http://www.suttareadings.net]
You can download a copy of the Pali translation of the sutta by Nanamoli Thera from within this post.
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