Teachings on taking the five lay precepts with or without celibacy and the eight precepts with celibacy.
Refuge and precepts ceremony
Discussing the purpose of ordination, a Lamrim (Stages of the Path) overview, Buddhist precepts, monastic vows, and ordination prerequisites.
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Discussing the purpose of ordination, a Lamrim (Stages of the Path) overview, Buddhist precepts, monastic vows, and ordination prerequisites.
The monastic preceptor
Enter monastic life with a sincere motivation. Cultivate it again and again so it increases and becomes firm. In this way you will be happy as a monastic.
The hindrances to ordaining
Ordination provides a direction for spiritual yearning, something very pure inside of us.
Reasons for monastic precepts
The more we keep the precepts, the better we get along with other people, because the precepts are designed to subdue our negative actions of body and speech.
The six harmonies (continued)
Living in community with mindfulness: a long-term vision to prepare the monastery for future generations of monastics.
The precepts in modern culture
Keeping precepts in our present-day culture and relating to others in a healthy way.
The purpose of monastic precepts
Precepts serve to guide monastics in a positive direction, making the mind peaceful by abandoning activities that bring agitation.
The six harmonies
The temporary goal of a monastic is to create a community that facilitates practice, so that everybody can progress on the path to enlightenment.
The “Ratnapala Sutta”
Buddha’s disciple foremost in faith who, with pure motivation, looked with wisdom at cyclic existence and renounced without regret.
The Buddha and monasticism
The evolution of monasticism in the Buddhist tradition.