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The Five Mindfulness Trainings have their root in the Five Precepts offered by the Buddha.

The first training is to protect life, to decrease violence in oneself, in the family and in society.
plumvillage.org/mindfulness/th

Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals.

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Plum VillageThe Five Mindfulness Trainings | Plum VillageThe Five Mindfulness Trainings have their root in the Five Precepts offered by the Buddha. They have been expanded and updated so that they represent a way to bring mindfulness into every area of life.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health.
I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death.
All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
I inherit the results of my actions of body, speech, and mind. My actions are my continuation. -Upajjhatthana Sutta #Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism
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I don't know what the #Buddhist stance is, specifically, on #IndependenceDay, but I'm pretty sure our Teachers wouldn't be into it.

I tried searching it on line, came up with #Dhamma talks about what constitutes real #Freedom. Which is a damn good point. And was reminded that clinging, e.g., to mythic images of our various national icons, is not free. Or as one meme I saw a couple of years back put it, "I'm not free but I have this cool [flag] t-shirt."

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I took a look at #Matrix (with the #Schildichat client), wondering if I could use my own chat room there instead of a Mattermost server, that I use for #Dhamma Talk questions and feedback in my Dhamma Talk livestream videos:
bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/
While Schildichat was very Discord-esque, my sense was that it's still overly fiddly; I wouldn't suggest it to anyone except a geek.

Matrix definitely blew away IRC, & I think all #OpenSource geeks worth their salt should eschew #Discord for Matrix.

Ajahn SubharoLive-Streamed Dhamma TalksTheravada Buddhist Monk, focusing on meditation, and the Early Buddhist Texts.

Great talk and discussion with Ven Canda , Venerable Upekkhā & Ajahn Brahmali: "Debate on Women, Gender & Non-self" made available by the Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project - a pioneering project working to establish the first Theravada Bhikkhuni Monastery in the UK where women can train towards full ordination.
youtu.be/gria__9MLho #DhammaTalk #Dhamma #Theravada #Buddhism #Anukampa #Bhikkhuni #AjahnBrahmali #ordination #VenerableCanda

“Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of interbeing and compassion, and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I’m determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, or in my way of life.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#compassion #love #ThichNhatHanh #vegan #HumanPrivilege #buddhism #mindfulness #kindness #Metta #dhamma

I'll be doing a live-stream Dhamma Talk soon entitled "Views to Freedom, Views to Bondage".

Visible here, **ad-free**, live-streamed (starting in 45 minutes from the time of this post):
bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/

There is also a chat room there, where I watch for questions/comments during the recording. "Non-live" questions are also invited, for a future livestream.

The recorded video will be posted later (non-live) at:
bhikkhu.ca/

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