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1. Basic Themes I. The Department of Internal Governance
    … There are many kinds of standards and procedures related to the Vinaya that must be studied, practiced, and observed. Taken together, they are called ‘vinaya-kamma.’ Some vinaya-kamma are our own personal responsibility in training ourselves. For example – 1. Kāya-kamma: Act only in ways that are correct in light of the Vinaya and that are called karaṇīya-kicca, things to be done … 
2. Basic Themes Introduction
    … Thus I would now like to explain the duties of each department in a way that will bring about order, in line not only with the laws and regulations of the Saṅgha, but also with the Vinaya and the Dhamma – because all of these laws and regulations need to be both Dhamma and Vinaya if they are to lead to the well-being of … 
3. Basic Themes Summary
    … The individual to be ordained as a monk has to possess the proper characteristics in line with the principles of the Vinaya. 2. Saṅgha-sampatti: The monks who gather to witness the ordination constitute a legitimate quorum in line with the Vinaya. 3. Sīmā-sampatti: The territory in which the ordination is held has had its boundaries properly defined. When an individual ordains in … 
4. Basic Themes Introduction
    … To adhere to the religion rationally means not to follow one’s own prejudices or those of one’s teachers or companions, but to follow the principles of informed knowledge; holding to the Dhamma-Vinaya as one’s standard, like a law affixed with the king’s seal, enforceable throughout the land, making exceptions for no one. Whoever then transgresses the law can’t … 
5. Basic Themes III. The Department of Building & Development
    … For this reason, we should examine the area of building and development to see whether or not it is appropriate and accords with the Vinaya. I would like to divide the duties in this area into two sorts, in line with the two major duties that those who are ordained should take an interest in – ­ A. The duty of study (gantha-dhura): Those monks … 
6. Basic Themes III. Saṅghaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
    … Membership in the conventional Saṅgha is attained through consent of the Order, in a formal ceremony with witnesses, following the procedures set out in the Vinaya. Membership in the Noble Saṅgha is attained when the quality of transcendence (lokuttara dhamma) appears in one’s heart as a result of one’s own behavior and practice, with no formalities of any sort whatsoever. All Buddhists … 
7. Basic Themes Translator’s Preface
    … Of particular interest is the inclusion of the fourteen duties or protocols (vatta) from the Vinaya, which stress the way in which training in meditation is a form of apprenticeship. This is a distinctive feature of the Wilderness tradition, in that these duties have been abandoned by many other Buddhist practice traditions. Duties of the Saṅgha is somewhat different sort of treatise, in that … 
8. Basic Themes Glossary
    … The Buddha’s own name for the religion he founded was, ‘this Dhamma-Vinaya’ – this Doctrine and Discipline. Vipassanūpakkilesa: Corruption of insight; intense experiences that can happen in the course of meditation and can lead one to believe that one has completed the path. The standard list includes ten: light, psychic knowledge, rapture, serenity, pleasure, extreme conviction, excessive effort, obsession, indifference, contentment. * * * If these … 
9. Basic Themes II. The Department of Education
    … The second group contains those who study on their own – listening to sermons, reading textbooks, studying the Vinaya, Suttas, and Abhidhamma; discussing questions with one another (dhamma-sākacchā), which can lead to understanding on a higher level, so that one may apply one’s knowledge to training oneself. Both groups are classed as being on the elementary level of education in the study of … 
10. Basic Themes Discernment
     … Virtue, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Vinaya Piṭaka. 2. Concentration, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Suttanta Piṭaka. 3. Discernment, which in terms of where its principles are found is the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. Expressed in terms of their meaning, they refer to three modes of behavior to be developed – 1. Virtue: keeping our … 
11. Basic Themes Virtue
     … This normalcy of mind, which is maintained through the power of the discipline of mindfulness (sati-vinaya), forms the essence of virtue: firmness, steadiness, stability. And the resulting flavor or nourishment of virtue is a solitary sense of calm for the mind. When freedom of this sort arises within us, this is called the development of sīlānussati, the mindfulness of virtue. This is virtue … 
12. Basic Themes IV. The Department of Spreading the Dhamma
     … Only those who can act in this manner are qualified for the Department of Spreading the Dhamma in line with the Dhamma and Vinaya. * * * When the duties of all these departments are fully observed by a community, a group, or an individual, they will help our religion to prosper and thrive. But as long as we are unable to fulfill these duties, the establishment … 
13. Basic Themes II. Dhammaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi
     … Studying like a water viper means to study the words of the Buddha without then putting them into practice, having no sense of shame at doing evil, disobeying the training rules of the Vinaya, making oneself like a poisonous snake-head, full of the fires of greed, anger, and delusion. Studying for the sake of emancipation means to study the Buddha’s teachings out … 
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