We begin looking at speech — the first aspect of the 3 Limbs of ethical action, or sīla. For many of us, speech is one of the most overt ways we find the practice of the ethical precepts challenging. It’s certainly one of the places where our actions very clearly can be seen to have effects in the world and […]
Speech like flowers, speech like honey: The discipline & art of Right Speech Read More »
Continuing in our exploration of the Noble Eightfold Path, we’re entering the limbs of Right Speech, Action, and Livelihood, collectively known as the Ethics (sīla) section. A discourse called “The People of Sālā,” offering a standard list of the elements of Buddhist ethics, breaking down the limbs of Speech and Action into their subgroups, is at the bottom of the
“The ford where all the Buddhas cross”: Ethics as the ground of liberation Read More »
We begin 2019 with a series on foundational practices: what the Buddha often taught as the beginning of a series of “progressive instructions.” This is a style of teaching that presents the path to awakening step by step, often given to folks who are not yet believers, who have not yet taken refuge or who have just done so. It
5 Foundations of Practice: Giving, Ethics, Heavens, Dangers, Renunciation Read More »
May the forces of delusion
not take hold, nor
weaken my resolve.
(Sharing of Merit)