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1. Purity of Heart Glossary
    … of life as it is normally lived. Sangha: On the conventional (sammati) level, this term denotes the communities of Buddhist monks and nuns. On the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sutra. Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
2. Purity of Heart Reconciliation, Right & Wrong
    … The methods are contained in the Vinaya, the Buddha’s code of monastic discipline. Long passages in the Vinaya are devoted to instructions for how monks should confess their offenses to one another, how they should seek reconciliation with lay people they have wronged, how they should settle protracted disputes, and how a full split in the Sangha—the monastic community—should be healed … 
3. Purity of Heart Educating Compassion
    … The Vinaya, his monastic discipline, imposes only a minor penalty on a monk who refuses to care for a fellow monk who is sick or dying, or who totally abandons a sick monk before the latter recovers or dies. And there’s no penalty for withholding or discontinuing a specific medical treatment. So the rules convey no message that the failure to keep life … 
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