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Ethics

Sila — the conduct that supports concentration which supports wisdom. The first of the three trainings.

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Core Teachings

The Five Precepts

Five voluntary trainings undertaken by every lay Buddhist: to abstain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, and intoxicants. They are the minimum architecture of ethical life and the foundation on which all higher practice rests.

Archival 1911 museum plate photograph of the Lion Capital of Ashoka from Sarnath, showing the dharma wheel carved on its abacus

Core Teachings

The Noble Eightfold Path

The fourth of the Four Noble Truths is the path itself — eight interrelated factors grouped under wisdom, ethical conduct, and mental discipline. It is the Buddha's prescription for the ending of suffering.

Golden Dharma Wheel flanked by two deer atop the roof of the Jokhang Temple, Lhasa

Core Teachings

Right Livelihood

Samma-ajiva — right livelihood. The Buddha's direct teaching that one's means of earning a living is itself part of the path, and that certain occupations are incompatible with the dharma.

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Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

The Ten Non-Virtuous Actions

A teaching on the ten unwholesome deeds — three of body, four of speech, three of mind — and what it means to renounce them in a modern Nepali life.

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The Dhammapada in Daily Life — Episode 07

The seventh episode. On the wise person and the foolish person — the central comparison of the text.

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