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  1. Book search result icon The Five Faculties Glossary
     … The Buddha’s own term for the religion he taught was, “This Dhamma-Vinaya.” Vipassanā: Clear-seeing insight into the processes of fabrication in the mind, with the purpose of developing dispassion for those processes. Wat (Thai): Monastery.
  2. Book search result icon The Five Faculties Persistence
     … Actually, they’re looking in the wrong place, because the humor is primarily in the Vinaya, which deals with monks’ rules. For every rule, there’s a story, and the story, many times, will be humorous. And it’s interesting that it has this function. For one thing, if you can laugh at the behavior that led the Buddha to formulate the rule, it … 
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