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  1. Book search result icon The Wings to Awakening Introduction
     … Although our concern in this book is with the Dhamma, or the teaching of the Wings to Awakening, we should not forget that the Buddha named his teaching Dhamma-Vinaya. The Vinaya was the set of rules and regulations he established for the smooth running of the order. Dhamma is the primary member of the compound, but the Vinaya forms the context that helps … 
  2. Book search result icon The Wings to Awakening Glossary
     … Teachings of the Elders”—the only one of the early schools of Buddhism to have survived into the present; currently the dominant form of Buddhism in Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Burma. Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text. English-Pāli Although I have tried to be as consistent as possible in rendering Pāli terms into English, there … 
  3. Book search result icon The Wings to Awakening H. The Noble Eightfold Path
     … He speaks in season, speaks what is factual, what is in accordance with the goal, the Dhamma, & the Vinaya. He speaks words worth treasuring, seasonable, reasonable, circumscribed, connected with the goal. AN 10:99 § 104. More on Right Action & Right Speech for Lay People. Abandoning sensual misconduct, he abstains from sensual misconduct. He does not get sexually involved with those who are protected by … 
  4. Book search result icon The Wings to Awakening III: The Basic Factors
     … Of course the Buddha has long been totally unbound, but he left his Dhamma and Vinaya as a teacher in his stead [DN 16], and so on that level one may still associate with him. The reason why a person embarking on the path to practice would need to associate with good people, rather than trying to be totally self-reliant, is that the … 
  5. Book search result icon The Wings to Awakening B. The Four Frames of Reference
     … in the Abhidhamma, this is translated literally as “around the mouth”; in the Vinaya, the same term is used to mean the front of the chest]. Always mindful, he breathes in; mindful he breathes out. Breathing in long, he discerns, ‘I am breathing in long’; or breathing out long, he discerns, ‘I am breathing out long.’ Or breathing in short, he discerns, ‘I am … 
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