Practical ethics: Part 1

This commentary on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland was offered at Centilia Cultural Center in Seattle on October 20, 2018.

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• Reading excerpts from Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness: A Commentary on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland, by Khensur Jampa Tegchok and edited by Thubten Chodron, and providing commentary.
• Qualities of a good leader
• Four means of attracting others
• Causes of higher rebirth, such as practicing ethical conduct and abandoning ten non-virtues
• Cause and effect of highest good (liberation and full awakening)
• Speaking truthfully entails both factual accuracy and benefit to someone.
• Moral: Tell the truth; do not tell lies, even small white lies.
• Questions and answers

Part two of this talk can be found here