Exploring Monastic Life 2012

How monastic life helps us to subdue our afflictions.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Motivation and community

How to cultivate a motivation of compassion and kindness for others while living in community.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Seeking liberation

Examining what is deep in our hearts that we cannot ignore and want to live…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Turning the wheel of Dharma

A continuing narration of the Buddha's life and how his story parallels our own lives.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Why are we not happy?

Considering how a monastic life style can be a powerful method helping to subdue afflictions.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

Sangha and community living

Buddha's reasons for establishing a four-fold sangha and the benefits of monastic community living.

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Monasticism meeting modernity

With Buddhism going global, different cultures and values might influence how we apply the precepts…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2012

“Connected Discourses with Kassapa”

To implode our field of attachment and aversion while expanding our field of love and…

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Pure teaching of Dharma

When people show respect to you as a monastic, consider that they are bowing to…

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