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Discussion Questions

What motivates you to study the Buddha’s teachings?
How have the goals that you are working to achieve in your life shifted as a result of hearing the Dharma and the Nembutsu?
How has your way of working changed as a result of your encounter with the Nembutsu?

Dharma Discussion: Kṣānti (July 26, 2020)

Posted on July 25, 2020August 22, 2020

Click here to read about the Buddhist Virtue of Patience

How is patience defined in Mahayana Buddhism?

Three aspects[i]

(1) not giving rise to anger or annoyance—not getting angry in the first place

(2) not clinging to hatred and grudges—if you get angry, not holding onto it

(3) not harboring ill will

Dharma Discussion: Śīla (July 19, 2020)

Posted on July 18, 2020August 22, 2020

Please review the Bodhisattva Precepts

Discussion Questions

How do you practice these precepts in your daily life?
Is there meaning in doing one’s best, even though one is not able to practice these perfectly in daily life?
Which of these do you think our world needs most at the present moment?

Honen’s Perspective on upholding precepts (from The Passages on the the Selection of the Nembutsu in the Original Vow)

If the original vow required us to make images of the Buddha and to build stupas, the poor and destitute would surely have no hope of birth, but the fact is that the rich and highborn are few, while the poor and lowborn are exceedingly many.