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The Rule of Three
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Seeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
The Rule of Three is a well-known and recognised principle which gives nouns, adjectives or sayings a memorable, and recognisable rhythm or grouping, in order to make them catchy, easy to recollect and perpetuate...
Young, Free and Single
Young, Gifted and Black,
Father Son and Holy Ghost
and now, @Person's thread, Fresh, Solid and Free.
How many more - that we have come across, or of our own invention and making - can we put here, as reminders of our practice, and as tenets or memorable phrases to help us along?
I'll start:
Karma Thinks, Karma Says, Karma Does.
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Taking refuge in Buddha, dharma and sangha
Older, wiser and slower.
I've added as part of my metta practice, safe, happy and free.
Three marks of existence:
Impermanence, suffering, and not-self
Three sights Gautama saw when he first left the palace:
Old age, sickness, and death
The one request I always used to make to my daughters, when they left my side to do their own thing with their friends...
"Be nice, Be good, Behave...."
I believe my eldest says it to her little boy/my grandson, now....!
vene vidi vici
(Have you read the proviso of the first post, @ScottPen ...?)
Sure have. Keeping the 5 precepts ain't easy. Any day during which I keep any of them all day is a victory over my impulses toward harmful behavior.
I understand that pride in accomplishment is a slippery slope, but I'm not past it yet. So, when I evaluate today before I go to sleep, maybe I'll have come, seen, and conquered. And maybe not. But either way I'm ok, which is a victory in itself.
Noted.
Cool post.
... or, as the French might have it, "Jamais deux sans trois."
(Three-truth-exegesis, from Great Calming Insight, a sermon by the ascetic Zhìyǐ, T1911.8a6)
Mind, bodhi and ... start again
Mined, buddies and ... no, mined is part of 3 gems ... start again
Mind, Body and Spirit
Never confuse love with possession, kindness with weakness or respect with fear.
Sila. Samadhi. Panna.
(Or ‘sealant’ as Bhante G sometimes annotates ‘sila’, in the sense of sealing the unskillful unwholesome leaks in the boat of our behavior or the foundation of our home.)
thee, me, we
Kindness, kindness, kindness (worth saying thrice)
I thought it was four sights he saw? The three above plus an ascetic
Tiramisu, panna cotta, and créme brûlée.
...But not necessarily in that order.....