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1. Beyond Desire & Passion 19. Rules & Determinations
    … But the Vinaya also fosters discernment in another way. It contains discussions of many cases where a monk misbehaves in a way that doesn’t quite come under a rule that has been formulated, and the question arises: How to determine what penalty, if any, his misbehavior might deserve? In adjudicating cases like this, the Vinaya employs a framework for analyzing actions that’s … 
2. Beyond Desire & Passion 18. Virtue in Rules
    … One of the least understood aspects of the monk’s training in virtue is the body of training rules (sikkhāpada) contained in the part of the Canon called the Vinaya, the discipline. Yet the Buddha gave so much importance to this part of his training that he actually called his teaching, not “Buddhism” or even just “Dhamma,” but “this Dhamma-Vinaya.” The word vinaya … 
3. Beyond Desire & Passion 20. Training Rules for All
    … These rules are found in the Vinaya for monastics as well. The five are to refrain from: killing any living being, stealing what belongs to others, engaging in sexual misconduct, telling a deliberate lie, and taking intoxicants that cause heedlessness. With regard to the first training rule, “living being” covers human beings and all other animals large enough to see with the naked eye … 
4. Beyond Desire & Passion Glossary
    … who have attained at least stream-entry. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sūtra. Tathāgata: Literally, one who “has become authentic (tatha-āgata)” or “is truly gone (tathā-gata)”: an epithet used in ancient India for a person who has attained the highest religious goal. In Buddhism, it usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples. Vinaya: The monastic discipline.
5. Beyond Desire & Passion 21. Virtue as Attitudes (1)
    … Virtue as Attitudes (1) In addition to the rules of the Vinaya, a monk’s training in virtue is also expressed in terms of attitudes he should adopt and qualities of character he should develop. There are many lists of these qualities in the Canon—we’ve already encountered one list in the Buddha’s rebuke to Ven. Sudinna—but here we’ll focus … 
6. Beyond Desire & Passion 29. More than Just Calm
    … They’re even included in the Vinaya. In fact, they’re the only meditation instructions contained there, which shows that they were considered especially important: a necessary part of the training for monks who, specializing in memorizing that part of the Canon, might not have had time to memorize any of the discourses. These instructions come in sixteen steps divided into four sets of … 
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