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1. Meditations3 Glossary
    … attained at least their first taste of the deathless. Somdet (Thai): A royal rank given by the king to monks at the top level of the Thai ecclesiastical hierarchy. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra. Tathagata: One who has “become true” (tatha + agata) or one who is truly gone (tatha + gata); an epithet for the Buddha. Vinaya: The monastic discipline. Vipassana: Insight. Wat (Thai): Monastery.
2. Play AudioThe Saints Don’t Grieve
    … I was talking a while back to a Zen practitioner — admittedly someone who wasn’t all that advanced — about conflict resolution in the community, and I pointed out that having the Vinaya as our standard was very liberating. To him that was an unusual idea — that rules could be liberating. Part of his quest, he said, was “to learn how to see beyond rules … 
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