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1. Come & See Entering for the Rains
    … On the lowest level, there’s generosity, virtue, and meditation. The Buddha taught these as daily practices: the lower level of virtue, the medium level of virtue, the refined level of virtue. The lower level is the five precepts. The medium level is the eight or ten precepts. The refined level is the 227 training rules for the monks. In the 227 training rules … 
2. Come & See To Be a Person Is to Be a Māra
    … That’s why the Buddha taught us to want to get out of the world, why he laid down the principles of generosity, virtue, and meditation, or virtue, concentration, and discernment. He taught the religion so that we could contemplate and see these four noble truths. When we see these four noble truths, we won’t be deluded by the world. We’ll be … 
3. Come & See Glossary
    … person whose mind is free of defilement and thus not destined for further rebirth. A title for the Buddha and the highest level of his noble disciples. Ariya-dhamma: Noble qualities: virtue, concentration, discernment, and release. Bhava: Becoming. A sense of identity within a particular world of experience. The three levels of becoming are on the level of sensuality, form, and formlessness. Brahmā: An … 
4. Come & See Come & See
    … In the list of the virtues of the Dhamma, it says that the Dhamma is ehipassiko: It’s for calling all living beings to come and see. It’s not for calling them to go and see. He wants us to come and see the Dhamma. And so where do we come to see the Dhamma? Right here at our rūpa-dhamma, or physical … 
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