{"id":13371,"date":"2025-02-05T21:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2025-02-05T21:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:18:13","slug":"buddhist-holy-day-dhamma-05-02-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/?p=13371&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Holy Day Dhamma (05\/02\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row animation_type=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221; conditional_render=&#8221;%5B%7B%22value_role%22%3A%22administrator%22%7D%5D&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"porto-testimonial wpb_content_element   wpb_custom_4760b66c0cbf51ec9a7673f3785bca75\"><div class=\"testimonial\"><div class=\"testimonial-author\"><p><strong><\/strong><span><\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"testimonial-arrow-down reversed\"><\/div><blockquote><p>\n<p>So, mendicants, you too should give up what\u2019s unskillful and devote yourselves to skillful qualities. In this way you\u2019ll achieve growth, improvement, and maturity in this teaching and training.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suppose that not far from a town or village there was a large grove of sal trees that was choked with castor-oil weeds. Then along comes a person who wants to help protect and nurture that grove. They\u2019d cut down the crooked sal saplings that were robbing the sap, and throw them out. They\u2019d clean up the interior of the grove, and properly care for the straight, well-formed sal saplings. In this way, in due course, that sal grove would grow, increase, and mature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the same way, mendicants, you too should give up what\u2019s unskillful and devote yourselves to skillful qualities. In this way you\u2019ll achieve growth, improvement, and maturity in this teaching and training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MN 21 The Simile of the Saw (Bhikkhu Sujato)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/mn21\/en\/sujato\">https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/mn21\/en\/sujato<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row animation_type=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221; conditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhist-holy-day-dhamma"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhammainyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}