ethical conduct
Teachings on ethical conduct, a fundamental Buddhist practice that is based on avoiding harmful actions and engaging in constructive actions.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Ethics in daily life
A look at ethical conditioning and the factors in our lives that lead to our…
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Ethics and conditioning
The role of ethics for achieving worldly happiness, and also the happiness of liberation and…
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Incarcerated people Getting along with others
How to remove oneself from difficult, even dangerous, situations by maintaining integrity, consistency, and ethical…
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Bhikkhu Sujato Bhikkhuni pārājika 1
An exploration of the first pārājika: the variety of rule formations and disrobal methods, re-ordination…
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Handling fear and potential violence
A person in prison discusses strategies he has used to defuse potentially violent situations. Earning…
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Changing our mind
A person in prison learns about placing others above self and describes the choice we…
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Verse 6-2: Consideration for others
Abandoning negativities out of care, affection, consideration, and an awareness of how our actions impact…
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Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity
Seeing an opportunity for non-virtue but restraining ourselves because of a sense of our own…
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Developing a kind heart
The importance of developing loving kindness, an open-hearted care for others.
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa The four opponent powers for purification
The importance of purifying negative karma and how to use the four opponent powers in…
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