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Exploring Monastic Life 2014

Ordination lineages

How ordination is different in the three living Buddhist traditions, and why the path to…

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Don't Believe Everything You Think

Squashing our ego

If we have confidence in our good qualities, it will not matter what others say…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2014

Establishing precepts

The sometimes unusual origin stories of the monastic precepts help to explain the practical meanings,…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 45: The mule

Extolling our own good qualities only makes us look foolish in the eyes of others.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2014

Self-confidence across monastic cultures

How monastics relate to money and idle talk, the rules governing nuns, and self-confidence for…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Nine-point death meditation

Meditating on death to make life more meaningful and the two meditations to use: the…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2014

After the Buddha awakened

Creating a solid motivation for ordaining, how the Buddha taught every type of person, and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 266-275

The relationship between impermanence and duration. Refuting a truly existent present.

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 44: The powerful demon of doubt

The hindrance of doubt tending towards the wrong conclusion can completely destroy our spiritual practice.

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 43: Bearing small ordeals

Illuminating the importance of learning to bear small ordeals in preparation for aging, sickness and…

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