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  1. Book search result icon Meditations2 Glossary
     … all things conditioned, compounded, or concocted by nature, whether on the physical or the mental level. In some contexts this word is used as a blanket term for all five khandhas. As the fourth khandha, it refers specifically to the fashioning or forming of urges, thoughts, etc., within the mind. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra. Vinaya: The monastic discipline. Vipassana: Insight. Wat (Thai): Monastery.
  2. Inner Voice Lessons
     … There’s a story in the Vinaya of a group of monks who began the Rains retreat with a vow: “Okay, we’re not going to talk to each other. Each person just maintain silence throughout the Rains.” At the end of the retreat they went to see the Buddha, very proud of the fact that they had succeeded in not talking to each … 
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