Discipline
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In its original sense, discipline is systematic instruction intended to train a person, sometimes literally called a disciple, in a craft, trade or other activity, or to follow a particular code of conduct or "order".
Often, the phrase "to discipline" carries a negative connotation. This is because enforcement of order–that is, ensuring instructions are carried out–is often regulated through Template:Wiki.
Discipline is the assertion of willpower over more base desires, and is usually understood to be Template:Wiki with Template:Wiki. Self-discipline is to some extent a substitute for motivation, when one uses reason to determine the best course of action that opposes one's desires.
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on the other hand, is when one does what one knows is best, but must do it by opposing one's motivations.
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Discipline (Skt. śīla; Tib. Template:BigTibetan, tsultrim; Wyl. tshul khrims) literally, ‘acting appropriately’.
The Template:Wiki of discipline is to simplify our lives. Discipline is a way of being that is conducive to positive and happy states of mind.
It is the first of the three trainings and the second of the six paramitas.
The Means of Keeping Discipline[edit | edit source]
Patrul Rinpoche says[1]:
"The means of keeping discipline are:
- Conscientiousness, which is a meticulous concern for what is to be engaged in and what is to be avoided;
- Mindfulness, which means not Template:Wiki what should be adopted and abandoned;
- And vigilance, which involves [continually] checking the Template:Wiki of your body, speech and mind.
Firstly, through mindfulness, you do not lose sight of what should be adopted or abandoned.
Then secondly, because you are checking the Template:Wiki of the body, speech and mind with vigilance, you recognize any occasions when you are tempted to avoid something virtuous or to engage in something negative.
At that time, because of your conscientiousness, you recall the benefits of virtuous actions and undertake them, or remember the faults of negative conduct and unwholesome actions and avoid them."
Subdivisions[edit | edit source]
Chökyi Drakpa says:
"Discipline is divided into the discipline of avoiding negative actions, the discipline of Template:Wiki positive actions, and the discipline of bringing benefit to beings:
- The first kind of discipline means that you give up even the slightest unwholesome deed of body, speech or mind.
- The second means that you strive to practise virtue as much as you possibly can, beginning with the tiniest of positive acts.
Be sure to embrace these acts with the proper preparation, main part and conclusion.
- Thirdly, bringing benefit to beings means working for the Template:Wiki of others through the four ways of attracting disciples, once the time has come for you to do so, and when you are free from any selfish motivation.
For beginners, it is most important to train the mind in the first two types of discipline with the bodhichitta motivation of wishing to benefit others."
discipline: "In the Shambhala tradition,...discipline is connected with how to become thoroughly gentle and genuine.
It is associated with how to overcome selfishness and how to promote egolessness, or basic goodness, in yourself and others...Discipline shows you how to make the journey of warriorship." (pg 71)
"Over the centuries, there have been many who have sought the ultimate good and have tried to share it with their fellow human beings.
To realize it requires immaculate discipline and unflinching conviction."
Alternative Translations[edit | edit source]
- moral conduct, moral discipline, morality (Dharma Publishing)
Further Reading[edit | edit source]
- Dzogchen Ponlop, Rebel Buddha (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2010), pages 73-78.
See Also[edit | edit source]
External Links[edit | edit source]
The texts of the Vinaya, or Discipline (’dul ba) comprise the monastic code, its history, and commentaries on it.
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This section of the Kangyur corresponds approximately to the Vinayapiṭaka of the Pāli and Template:Wiki Tripiṭakas.
Since it was largely due to divergences in the details of monastic code that early Buddhist groups differentiated into various schools, the vinaya Template:Wiki of each school is quite different.
The Pāli vinaya is that of the Theravāda school, while translations of vinaya texts into Template:Wiki include the more or less complete vinaya Template:Wiki of five other Indian Buddhist schools.
The works in this section of the Kangyur were translated into Tibetan from the Sanskrit texts of the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya, the vinaya tradition held by the first monks to bring their ordination lineage to Tibet.
Vinaya texts of other schools do not seem to have been translated into Tibetan.
While scholars disagree about whether there was a Mūlasarvāstivādin school as such, Template:Wiki from the Sarvāstivādin school, the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya is a Template:Wiki body of Template:Wiki many times longer than any other vinaya.
It has survived in Tibetan, Template:Wiki, and partially in Sanskrit in the form of manuscripts found in Template:Wiki. The Tibetan translations represent a more complete version than the Template:Wiki.
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a considerable number of sūtras, avadānas, and other works and passages elsewhere in the Kangyur; it almost constitutes a canonical collection in its own right.
The seven works listed here can be divided into the four major traditional divisions of the corpus:
(1) Vinayavibhaṅga, the codified Template:Wiki themselves and their Template:Wiki texts.
Toh 2 and 4 are the Prātimokṣasūtras outlining the Template:Wiki for monks and nuns, respectively, and each has a detailed commentary, Toh 3 and 5, in which the incidents that gave rise to the different Template:Wiki are recounted.
(2) Vinayavastu, Toh 1, a single large text containing seventeen “chapters” or topics (vastu, Tib. gzhi) each delineating a specific aspect of monastic life.
(3) Vinayakṣudrakavastu, Toh 6, a large additional “chapter” dealing with a wide range of miscellaneous topics not covered in the seventeen chapters of the Vinayavastu.
(4) Vinayottaragrantha, Toh 7, a compilation of ten or so subsections, some of which may have been Template:Wiki texts, providing amplified explanations of the monastic code and its history.
Two versions of the Uttaragrantha have been preserved in Tibetan translation (here numbered Toh 7 and 7A), of which the second is more complete, the first consisting only of the “Questions of Upāli” while the second contains the same text along with a number of others.
The colophons and the catalogue of the Degé Kangyur suggest that both versions were retained because of different levels of authentication concerning their respective contents.