Food for Awakening (2016)

A commentary on the five contemplations before meals from the Chinese Buddhist tradition and other meal-related prayers that are recited daily at Sravasti Abbey.

Young people knead bread together in the Sravasti Abbey kitchen.

The merit of offering food and drink

A continuing teaching on dedications that we make for all those who have offered us food and drink.

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Young people knead bread together in the Sravasti Abbey kitchen.

The emptiness of giving

How to contemplate depending arising and emptiness while making offerings.

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Young people knead bread together in the Sravasti Abbey kitchen.

Dedicating for the benefit of all

The completion of the commentary on the verses after lunch, pointing out all the beings for whom we make dedications.

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Young people knead bread together in the Sravasti Abbey kitchen.

Buddhist precepts regarding food

The Buddhist perspective on fasting and how practitioners keep Buddhist precepts related to food.

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Young people knead bread together in the Sravasti Abbey kitchen.

The heart connection between monastics and layp...

The verses for laypeople who offer food to nourish the sangha, and the sangha which in turn nourishes the laypeople with teachings.

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