Faith in Buddhism

If mindfulness is lacking, nothing can restrain it.

Saddha, faith, is like a car with a fully charged battery and a full tank of fuel.

It is ready to go.

The driver is mindfulness, which controls everything.

Buddhism describes an almost identical list of five spiritual faculties.

Saddha, faith, viriya, energy, sati, mindfulness, and samadhi, concentration, and then panna, wisdom.

The Pali and Sanskrit terms are, in several cases here, direct linguistic cousins.

We see the same terms used in Buddhist texts.

[clears throat] And so maybe reflecting on your relationship to faith as I offer this.

So the Pali word for faith is saddha, S-A-D-D-H-A.

So Pali, hoping you all have some context for that [clears throat] word now.

It's generally referred to as the language of the time of the Buddha.