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  1. Book search result icon Noble Conversation : A Study Guide VI. Virtue
     … Virtue Better than a hundred years lived without virtue, uncentered, is one day lived by a virtuous person absorbed in jhāna. — Dhp 110 Virtue is a blessing into old age. — Dhp 333 “Now, there are these five gifts, five great gifts—original, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unadulterated, unadulterated from the beginning—that are not open to suspicion, will never be open to suspicion, and … 
  2. Book search result icon Noble Conversation : A Study Guide Introduction
     … modesty, contentment, seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of release. The purpose of this study guide is to illustrate each of these topics with passages from the Canon, and to provide meditators with the incentive to integrate conversation of this sort into their practice. There is some overlap between the topics listed here and those listed in … 
  3. Book search result icon Noble Conversation : A Study Guide III. Seclusion
     … As he was sitting there, the Blessed One said to him, “Is it true, Elder, that you live alone and extol the virtues of living alone?” “Yes, lord.” “But how do you live alone and extol the virtues of living alone?” “Lord, alone I enter the village for alms, alone I return, alone I sit withdrawn [in meditation], alone I do walking meditation. That … 
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