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1. Meditations4 Glossary
    … 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. Sutta Nipata: A collection of longer poems attributed to the Buddha. Vinaya: The monastic discipline. Vipassana: Insight. Wat (Thai): Monastery.
2. Play AudioOne Thing Clear Through
    … And look at all the rules in the Vinaya for the monks to look after the monastery. Basically, the monastery is pure generosity. If you were to open your eyes right now and look around, everything you’d see would be somebody’s gift. And as for the monks, the longer you live as a monk, the more and more the very bones of … 
3. Play AudioA Sense of Entitlement
    … But he took the Vinaya and combined it with the forest practice and so rediscovered the way to Awakening. At that time the Thai Buddhist hierarchy had decided that the way to nibbana was closed. Nobody seemed to be going that way — that was the official line. They even had made a survey of meditation temples to prove it. And Ajaan Mun had to … 
4. Play AudioCleanliness is Next to Mindfulness
    … After she washes her feet, she goes into her hut and does all the things you’re told to do in the Vinaya. She checks the bed first before she sits down on it and then she takes a pin and pulls the wick out of the lamp to put out the light. And as soon as the fire went out, she said, that … 
5. Play AudioExperimental Intelligence
    … Go look in the Vinaya. A couple of the rules were actually formulated because some arahants made some mistakes. For instance, there’s the rule against monks eating stored-up food. Ven. Belatthasisa, who was an arahant, figured, “Well, I can just go for alms once a week, take the leftover rice, and dry it. That’s a nice frugal way of living, and … 
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