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2. Play AudioNot a One-note Dhamma
3. Play AudioBody, Feelings, Mind, Dhamma (outdoors)
4. Play AudioKeep the Dhamma Wheel Rolling
5. Play AudioIn Accordance With the Dhamma
6. Play AudioA Walking Ad for the Dhamma
7. Play AudioIn Accordance with the Dhamma (outdoors)
8. Play AudioA Refuge in the Dhamma (outdoors)
9. Play AudioA Mature Joy in the Dhamma
10. Play AudioWilling to Question Yourself
    The Buddha talks about the stages in learning the Dhamma. First you have to find someone you trust, because the Dhamma isn’t just words. It’s primarily a quality of the heart. The essence of the Dhamma is awakening, which is a quality of the heart. We have words to point to it. But it’s not about words. So you want to … 
11. Play AudioTo Test the Dhamma Is to Test Yourself
12. Play AudioDuties of the World, Duties of the Dhamma
13. Play AudioListen to the Dhamma 24 Hours a Day
14. Play AudioPossessiveness
     … People who claim to be Dhamma teachers are the ones who seem to hate the Dhamma the most. They’re always changing it. But you can make up your mind that whatever they do, that’s their business. You’re going to do your best to tame yourself, bring yourself in line with the Dhamma. That’s how you keep the Dhamma alive. And … 
15. Play AudioThe Brightness of the Dhamma, the Darkness of the World
16. Play AudioVerified Confidence
    One of the reasons that people fear death is because they’re not sure of the true Dhamma. Now, a lot of people have never even heard of the true Dhamma. But still, they don’t know what’s going to happen after death: “Is there such a thing as a deathless element? Is death a wipeout? Can your actions have any influence on … 
17. Play AudioTo Be Worthy of the Dhamma
     … I was reading a piece today by a board member of a Buddhist organization talking about how the Dhamma has to change. He said, “Yes, the Dhamma is timeless, but/and”—he had both “but” and “and”—“it’s got to meet people’s needs.” Well, they want to meet people’s wants, and they’re treating it as a commodity, something you have … 
18. Play AudioThe Dhamma Wheel
    The sutta we chanted just now, Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion, was the Buddha’s first sermon. And sometimes it’s asked, “Where’s the wheel? It’s not mentioned in the sutta itself.” There are two explanations. One is that the wheel was a symbol of power. When a king could get on his chariot and drive his wheels wherever he … 
19. Play AudioEncouragement
    There’s a famous passage where Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, the Buddha’s stepmother, comes to see the Buddha after her ordination and asks for a brief Dhamma teaching. He teaches her eight principles for deciding what is Dhamma and Vinaya, and what’s not. Those principles can be applied in two directions: One, when you hear somebody teach the Dhamma, you ask yourself, “What kind … 
20. Play AudioA Dhamma Bucket List
     … Sometimes you look at the human world and you say, “This is not a world I’d want to come back to.” But it is possible to practice the Dhamma on the deva level. That one extra quality is learning: reading the Dhamma, memorizing the Dhamma, so that you have good Dhamma phrases in mind. Think about the moment of death. As you approach … 
21. Play AudioLift Up Your Mind
     … And he didn’t set it out for us to say, “I don’t like this, I’m going to replace it with that.” Or, “Now that we’re living in the twenty-first century in America, we need a more streamlined Dhamma, or an easier Dhamma, or a Dhamma that’s more in line with what we want.” After all, what has changed … 
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