Buddhist Worldview

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Pali tradition and noble path

The 16 aspects of the four noble truths in the Pali tradition, focusing on the…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Third and fourth noble truths

The remaining eight aspects of the third and fourth noble truths of true cessations and…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Four noble truths: An overview

An overview of the 16 aspects of the four noble truths, and the first eight…

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Refuge in the Three Jewels

The concept of refuge

A short teaching on what refuge means, why we take refuge and what we're taking…

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The Importance of Motivation

Buddha’s advice for a better world

Looking at what is really in our hearts. Responding to questions on motivations that one…

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Refuge in the Three Jewels

Long refuge and precepts ceremony

The ceremony for renewing refuge and the five lay precepts, good to do twice a…

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Four Truths for the Aryas

The four attributes of true of origins of dukkha

The cause of suffering is not external situations and people, but the internal afflictions and…

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Venerable teaching and gesturing with her hand.
Four Truths for the Aryas

The four attributes of true of dukkha

Contemplating the four attributes of the first truth leads to developing renunciation and a motivation…

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Refuge in the Three Jewels

Streams of merit

A passage from the Anguttara Nikaya which elucidates going for refuge in the Three Jewels…

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Refuge in the Three Jewels

Being kind to oneself

A passage from the Samyutta Nikaya that teaches that the way to be kind to…

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