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  1. Book search result icon The Power of Karma Glossary
     … ancient India for a person who has attained the highest religious goal. In the Pali Canon, this usually denotes the Buddha, although occasionally it also denotes any of his arahant disciples. Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text. Vipassanā: Insight. Originally, this term meant insight as a quality of the mind, but over time it has come … 
  2. Book search result icon The Power of Karma Readings
     … Thus it is that many evil, unskillful qualities/events /actions—born of greed, caused by greed, originated through greed, conditioned by greed—come into play. [Similarly with aversion and delusion.] “And a person like this is called one who speaks at the wrong time, speaks what is unfactual, speaks what is irrelevant, speaks contrary to the Dhamma, speaks contrary to the Vinaya. Why…? Because … 
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