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  1. Book search result icon Meditations13 A Sense of Duty
     … One of the last things he said to the monks was that if they decided that any of the minor rules in the Vinaya should be rescinded, they could go ahead and rescind them. Now, here the Buddha had been spending 45 years setting up the Vinaya. He’d put a lot of thought, a lot of care, into formulating the Vinaya rules. And … 
  2. Book search result icon Meditations13 Glossary
     … the world. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sūtra. Tathāgata: One who has become authentic or has truly gone to the goal. An epithet of the Buddha and, occasionally, of arahants in general. Vinaya: The monastic discipline. Vipassanā: Insight. Originally, this term meant insight as a quality of the mind, but over time it has come to mean a type of meditation aiming at insight into … 
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