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  1. Book search result icon Meditations7 Glossary
     … nuns. On the ideal level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least their first taste of the Deathless. Sutta:  Discourse. Sanskrit form: sutra. Tathagata:  One who has become authentic or has truly gone to the goal. An epithet of the Buddha. Upasika:  A female lay-follower of the Buddha. Vinaya:  The monastic discipline. Wat (Thai):  Monastery.
  2. Two Roads to the Grand Canyon
     … And staying with the teacher is not just a matter of learning about the words of the Dhamma or of the Vinaya, or learning about the techniques of meditation. It’s a total training because if you’re going to be observant in your meditation, you have to learn how to be observant outside. It may seem like little things are unimportant: where things … 
  3. Generating Energy
     … If you tell yourself, “Well, I’ll just wait until my next lifetime,” he warns that the Dhamma and the Vinaya are going to deteriorate over time. The opportunities don’t get better. They get worse. So you make use of the opportunities you have now. In this case, you’re motivating yourself with a little bit of fear: the wise kind of fear … 
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