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  1. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind 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 Good Heart, Good Mind Persistence | Day Five, Evening
     … Most people miss the examples of humor in the Canon, largely because they’re most prominent in the Vinaya, which is the section concerning the rules that the monks have to follow, and very few laypeople read that section. Each rule has an origin story to explain the reasons why that rule was formulated, and often those stories contain an element of humor. I … 
  3. Book search result icon Good Heart, Good Mind Virtue | Day Five, Morning
     … There are medicines allowed in the Vinaya that do have an antibiotic effect. As for parasites in the body that are large enough to see, there are medicines that allow them to come out of the body without killing the parasite. Basically, they make the parasite faint. When it faints, it lets go and comes out of the body. Q: The next question is … 
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