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Janet Gyatso - May 17, 2010
Janet Gyatso That was then, this is now
Why the eight heavy rules on the ordination of women need to be changed.
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Thanissara, Jitindriya and Elizabeth Day
- May 17, 2010
The time has come
Exploring challenges faced by bhikkunis in obtaining full ordination and why a genuine dialogue between…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The pratimoksha vows
The various types of individual liberation vows and clarifying some confusion about the meaning and…
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Ethics and precepts
The importance of taking precepts and a reminder that precepts are voluntarily taken and are…
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Mindfulness for ethics, concentration, and wisdom
The importance of mindfulness in all three of the higher trainings, with an emphasis on…
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Establishing selflessness
Three mistaken approaches to determining selflessness and the order for establishing selflessness.
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Mindfulness and introspective awareness
The importance of mindfulness and introspective awareness in our everyday lives.
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Six perfections and three higher trainings
What makes the three higher trainings higher--rather than just ordinary--is the long-term motivation of attaining…
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Higher training in ethics
How ethical discipline is the foundation on which concentration and wisdom are built. Taking precepts…
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Ethics, concentration, and wisdom
Practicing the three higher trainings, which are practices imbued with refuge in the Three Jewels…
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The root of samsara
How things and self are merely imputed by thought and how ignorance is the root…
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Thubten Jampel Friendship
The importance of cultivating positive relationships. How we can love others without being attached to…
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