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1. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma Glossary
    … disciples. Uposatha: Observance day, coinciding with the full moon, new moon, and half moons. Lay Buddhists often observe the eight precepts on this day. “Uposatha” also refers to the ceremony in which monks meet to listen to the recitation of the Pāṭimokkha on the full moon and new moon uposathas. Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
2. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma Introduction
    … However, the suttas (discourses) and Vinaya (collections of monastic rules) contain many stories of how people gained awakening when learning only a few concepts or fragments of a framework—such as the causal framework of the four noble truths. In some cases, awakening was induced even just through the use of vivid similes—showing that the similes in these texts are not purely decorative … 
3. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 1 : Noble Attainments
    … When the Dhamma & Vinaya proclaimed by the Tathāgata is being taught, he heeds it, gives it attention, engages it with all his mind, hears the Dhamma with eager ears. “He discerns that, ‘I am endowed with the strength of a person consummate in view.’ This is the sixth knowledge attained by him that is noble, transcendent, not held in common with run-of-the … 
4. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 5 : Talks Inspiring Stream-Entry
    … Finally, the fact that Moggallāna could gain the Dhamma eye by listening to someone who hadn’t even met the Buddha proved that the Buddha was right to spend so much time and effort in establishing the Dhamma and Vinaya so that they would last for many generations: People who hadn’t even met the Buddha could still inspire others to reach the noble … 
5. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 3 : The Skills of Listening
    … Which six? “When the Dhamma & Vinaya declared by the Tathāgata is being taught, he doesn’t listen well, doesn’t give ear, doesn’t set his mind on gnosis, grabs hold of what’s worthless, rejects what’s worthwhile, and isn’t endowed with the patience [or: preference] to comply with the teaching. “Endowed with these six qualities, a person is incapable of alighting … 
6. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 4 : Setting the Standards
    … Looking at the Buddha’s life—both in his quest for awakening and then in his efforts to establish the true Dhamma and Vinaya for posterity—it’s hard to think of a more goal-oriented person. Looking at what he taught, it’s hard to think of a more goal-oriented path. When we give priority to the Buddha’s teaching that, if … 
7. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 2 : Specific Attainments
    … Not long afterward, the Blessed One addressed the monks: “Monks, even a monk who has long penetrated the Dhamma in this Dhamma & Vinaya would do well, periodically & righteously, to refute the wanderers of other persuasions in just the way Anāthapiṇḍika the householder has done.” — AN 10:93 § 15. [Ven. Nārada:] “My friend, although I have seen properly with right discernment, as it has come … 
8. Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 8 : Talks Inspiring Arahantship
    … The story of how the Buddha converted Uruvela Kassapa is one of the longest and most amusing in the Vinaya. The Buddha displays miracle after miracle, some of them quite extravagant, but Uruvela Kassapa’s reaction is always the same: “He’s powerful, the Great Contemplative, and mighty… But still, he’s not an arahant like me.” Finally, the Buddha decides to terrify him … 
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