Cultivating Healthy Mental States
•
Generosity: a readiness and taking the action of frequently giving something more than is strictly
necessary, such as time, effort, energy, financial support, or resources without any expectation of
anything in return. A practice of giving and helping others as part of an ongoing and comprehensive life
practice. This action can help you develop and cultivate a more caring and compassionate mind as one
chooses to consistently give and share through their life to eliminate selfishness. Generosity eliminates
craving/desire/attachment in the mind, thus, helping to eliminate discontent feelings from the mind.
•
Remedy for unwholesome quality of craving/desire/attachment (i.e. holding on), selfish desires,
and selfishness.
•
Cultivated through Right Mindfulness (identify unwholesome quality) and Right Effort (eliminate
unwholesome quality and cultivate wholesome quality).
•
“Monks, if beings knew, as I know, the results of giving and sharing, they would not eat without having
given, nor would the stain of selfishness obsess them and take root in their minds. Even if it were their
last bite, their last mouthful, they would not eat without having shared it, if there were someone to
share it with.
But because beings do not know, as I know, the results of giving and sharing, they eat without having
given, and the stain of selfishness obsesses them and takes root in their minds.”


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Day 3
Morning


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True Love: Love Without Attachment
(Chapter 15)


True Love: Love Without Attachment
Reminder
•
Second Noble Truth: Discontentedness is caused by our own cravings/
desires/attachments because the mind wants everything to be permanent
when everything in the world is impermanent.
•
Third Noble Truth: The elimination of discontentedness is possible by
eliminating cravings/desires/attachments.
Misunderstanding Attachment as Love


True Love: Love Without Attachment
What is True Love?
•
True love is to have care for another person, not wanting anything specific from the
relationship other than to see that person be well and peaceful. A relationship with
true love would be formed and conducted with no other intentions or interest other
than to see the person succeed in life in whatever way they choose to progress and
walk forward. We “love them as they are”.
•
Love Oneself
•
Love for Parents and Caregivers
•
Life Partners


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Practicing in a World of the
Unknowing: Relationships with
Non-Practitioners


Practicing in a World of the Unknowing:
Relationships with Non-Practitioners
•
Non-Practitioner: Someone who is not actively learning and practicing The
Path to Enlightenment as taught by The Buddha. The Buddha referred to this
as an “untrained worldling”. Should not develop an “us versus them” mentality.
•
A Non-Practitioner is going to think about the world in a different way than a
Practitioner as they will not understand The Four Noble Truths
(i.e. discontentedness, the cause, elimination, and the path leading to the
complete elimination of discontentedness - The Eight Fold Path.). They will not
understand craving/desire/attachment and will constantly struggle.
•
They will most likely have “wrong view”. They may blame you for their
discontentedness.
•
They will most likely not understand “True Love: Love Without Attachment”.
•
They may not be actively cultivating wholesome qualities of mind and actively
eliminating unwholesome qualities of mind.


Practicing in a World of the Unknowing:
Relationships with Non-Practitioners
•
Knowing The Teachings and observing Non-Practitioners struggling but yet
they are uninterested to learn and practice The Path to Enlightenment.
(Eliminate your craving/desire/attachment to “helping people”. Everyone will
need to approach these Teachings on their own terms.)
•
Non-Practitioners unwholesome moral conduct (i.e. wrong speech/action).
(Eliminate craving/desire/attachment for everyone to be a certain way.
Respond rather than React.) It is better to be quietly frustrated than overtly
hostile and angry.
•
You can choose to move on from relationships while maintaining loving-
kindness and compassion for all beings understanding any discontentedness
that you experience is a result of your own cravings/desires/attachments.
•
Eliminate craving/desire/want/expectation that “all beings” need to learn and
practice these Teachings. You cannot force someone to attain Enlightenment.


Practicing in a World of the Unknowing:
Relationships with Non-Practitioners
•
Train the mind to be comfortable with accepting other people’s choices/
decisions and that their decisions are not going to match to your wants and
expectations. What you decide for your life is going to be different than what
others choose for their life. (i.e. do not crave permanence)
•
The problem is not that others are not practicing The Teachings but instead,
that the mind “wants/expects” others to practice The Teachings.
•
Understand that you can disagree with others intentions, speech, and actions
while choosing to remain peaceful, calm, serene, and content with joy.
•
Understand that you can disagree with others intentions, speech, and actions
while still maintaining loving-kindness and compassion not wanting others to
say or do the same things as you.


Practicing in a World of the Unknowing:
Relationships with Non-Practitioners
Open Discussion
What struggles do you face with
others in your life?
I will help you.


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Day 3
Afternoon


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Practicing Non-Attachment: How to
Eliminate Attachment to Those Who
Are Closest to Us?


Practicing Non-Attachment:
How to Eliminate Attachment to Those
Who Are Closest to Us?
•
Acquire Wisdom: Develop your “life practice” on The Path to Enlightenment
so that you are deeply practicing these Teachings. Focus on developing your
own deep practice of these Teachings.
•
True Love: Deeply understand and practice “True Love: Love Without
Attachment”. Eliminate expectations of others understanding, accepting, and
being comfortable with their unique decisions. Love is not attachment.
Missing a person is not love. Grief is not love.
•
Freedom of Decisions: Each being is an individual and needs the freedom to
make their own decisions without pressure and forceful influences. Provide
space for others decisions without you forcing your approach on others.
Share thoughts and ideas when there is an open door.
•
Ask and Invite: ”Ask and invite” rather than “pressure and force” and then
accept and be comfortable with whatever decision is made.


Practicing Non-Attachment:
How to Eliminate Attachment to Those
Who Are Closest to Us?
•
Allow Struggle: Their Life -> Their Decisions -> Their Results (i.e. Kamma).
Learn to allow others to struggle and see that as them gaining wisdom to
ensure all struggles are eliminated. You can offer advice but it may not be
welcomed and be comfortable with that decision.
•
Individual Beings: A married couple is not “one person”, they are individual
beings with unique decisions that will not always agree…and that is “ok”.
Agreement does not equal love and disagreement does not equal hate,
division, or disrespect.
•
Discussions versus Forced Agreement: Learn how to have open
discussions to understand each other, not to force others to see things as
you see it.
•
Time Alone: Regularly spend time alone. Shopping, dinners, holidays/
vacations, etc. Learn to be comfortable with silence.


Practicing Non-Attachment:
How to Eliminate Attachment to Those
Who Are Closest to Us?
•
Communicate with Purpose: No need for constant and continuous contact
throughout the day. Communication should have a purpose that does not
include, where are you, what are you doing, I miss you, I want you to
___________.
•
Meditation and Generosity: Breathing Mindfulness Meditation and well
developed practice of generosity. Practice generosity with those who are
close to you as well as those who are not.
•
Walk Together in Life and in These Teachings: Where possible, entire
household can learn and practice these Teachings so that everyone is
practicing non-attachment while supporting and encouraging each other.
•
Sleep Alone: Change sleeping location and occasionally sleep alone.


Practicing Non-Attachment:
How to Eliminate Attachment to Those
Who Are Closest to Us?
•
No Attachment Cultivates Closeness: “A family that eats together stays
together” is not true. It is not possible to permanently eat together. “A family
that does not have attachment to each other stays together without always
being together” is the truth. Introduce impermanence into daily life.
•
Discontentedness Means There is Attachment: If there is
discontentedness in the relationship, there is attachment. No attachment
means there is never any discontentedness. The relationship will be
completely peaceful 100% of the time.
•
Quality versus Quantity: Prioritize quality time over quantity of time. Be
involved and interested in their life and how they make decisions through
asking them questions.
•
Patience: Attachments are eliminated gradually through consistent and
ongoing training of the mind.


Practicing Non-Attachment:
How to Eliminate Attachment to Those
Who Are Closest to Us?
•
Reflecting on Death: Training the mind to reflect on the death of those close
to us will help the mind eliminate attachment.


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Day 4
Morning


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Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along
The Path?


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
Children are like a growing plant.
You are the plant enthusiast interested in growing the plant.
The Teachings of The Buddha is the guide stake.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Acquire Wisdom: Develop your “life practice” on The Path to Enlightenment
so that you are deeply practicing these Teachings. Focus on developing your
own deep practice of these Teachings. You can only share that which you
know and understand.
•
A Child is Their Own Being: They are not “your” child and they do not
belong to “you”. While we say “my child/son/daughter” they are not “mine”
and will need to acquire they own wisdom and make their own wise decisions
with your support. You are not permanent.
•
Start Early: Training begins in the womb and continues throughout one’s
entire life. Introduce impermanence into their daily life.
•
Culture of Cultivating and Acquiring Wisdom: Develop a family culture of
actively acquiring wisdom through encouraging pursuit of learning. Teach
children how to independently determine the truth.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Role Model: You are a role model and are teaching your child with every decision
you make and through your own moral conduct and mental discipline, or lack
thereof. However you practice is how your child will practice. The results of your
decisions will return to you through your child.
•
Respectful Towards Your Life Partner, Parents, Grandparents, Siblings,
Elders, and People in the Community: Your child will model your moral conduct
and how you treat others. You are providing the example of how your child will
treat you and others. Be polite, kind, friendly, and respectful to all beings.
•
Get comfortable with the struggle and allowing it to occur: Eliminate your
craving/desire/attachment to your child so that as you provide guidance and you
observe them struggling, you do not feel guilty that you have caused their
struggles but instead, that you are working to help them eliminate their struggles.
Students/Practitioners (i.e. Children) will need to struggle and move through that
struggle to acquire wisdom and the results of The Path to Enlightenment.
Sheltering a child only hinders their ability to acquire wisdom through the struggles
they encounter. Allow them to make mistakes and then learn from the mistakes.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Help Child Eliminate Attachment to Their Parents: Eliminate clinging to
your child or allowing them to cling to you through spending time with others.
•
Patience: Get comfortable with repeating Teachings multiple times discussed
in different ways. Eliminate expectation that they should get it “right away”.
Gradual Training -> Gradual Practice -> Gradual Progress (just like you).
•
Be Creative and Have Fun: Children enjoy activities and games. Intellectual
conversation does not develop until the child is in their teens.
•
Do Not Force: Be welcoming and inviting to a child allowing them to make
their own decisions to move towards these Teachings including meditation.
•
Start Small and Build: Provide basic guidance asking for small tasks to be
completed and build those into more significant tasks. Ask regularly.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Get Comfortable with Mistakes: Your mistakes and their mistakes. You nor
them will be perfect. Repeated efforts to learn and grow with how to present
these Teachings to a child. Trail and error -> Learn from the mistakes. When
wisdom is the goal, there is no such thing as failure.
•
Proactive Training versus Real-time Training:
•
(Proactive) Providing Teachings to establish a foundation in The Three
Universal Truths, The Four Noble Truths, The Eight Fold Path, The Five
Precepts, and Meditation.
•
(Real-time) Provide training during daily struggles with loving-kindness,
compassion, and patience.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Be Prepared for Detours: Through eliminating your own cravings/desires, you
are able to pause in times where learning needs to take place. On the job
training…every moment is a teachable moment.
•
Always Be Supportive and Encouraging: Speak to children in uplifting ways to
encourage their curiosity and growth. Polite, kind, friendly, and respectful at all
times realizing that you need to work in that direction as individuals and as a
family. Focus on improved decision making not disparaging them as an individual.
•
Eliminate Your Anger and Aggressiveness: Do not shout, hit, or spank. Creates
fear and distance in the relationship and will become demotivating to learn and
progress. Do not make decisions while the mind is angry or otherwise discontent
even if that means multiple hours or days. Think through your decisions and the
results of those decisions. Do not expect immediate results.
•
Firm Speech versus Harsh Speech: It is possible to use firm speech for
improved emphasis but ensure it is not based in anger with harshness. Adjust
tone and tempo but not word choices after multiple sessions to share wisdom.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Impart Wisdom: Share guidance for improved decision making over multiple
discussions and then support them in making wise decisions helping them to
succeed. Ask questions to confirm understanding. You have a vested interest in your
child being a wise decision maker as they will make decisions about your life later in
life.
•
Mini-Lessons and Repeating Tasks: Teach a child with short little lessons even just
a few seconds. Ask them questions to confirm understanding. When you observe
mistakes, ask them to repeat the task again. Provide opportunities for them to
readily practice the “new found” wisdom.
•
Use The Eight Fold Path as Your Guide: The Eight Fold Path provides the perfect
plan for training and guidance for you and a child.
•
Teach Life Skills: Cooking, cleaning, laundry, ironing, shopping, gardening,
exercise, conversating, reading, learning, developing memory, making wise
decisions, making wise choices in friends based on The Five Precepts, healthy
eating and caring for the body/mind, talking through decisions rather than always
giving the answer and expecting compliance.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Do Not Punish: Speak, talk, discuss, and explain consequences to decisions when
everyone is calm. You may need to get their attention through reducing or eliminating
activities such as TV, Video Games, etc. but always start with multiple sessions of
sharing wisdom and ultimately giving notification of future consequences if wiser
decisions are not made helping them see you will need to implement the
consequences to get their attention. The consequences are based on their decisions
not you punishing them. Where possible, allow them to develop a plan for
consequences that they agree will occur prior to implementation.
•
Reward Good Conduct: Emphasize and highlight positive over negative. Children
repeat that which you emphasize and highlight by you giving it attention.
•
Do Not Assume You Know the Full Story: Ask questions and seek understanding
before making decisions and sharing wisdom. Ask the “what, why, when, and how” to
understand your child’s thought process of why they are making the decisions they are
making so that you can provide more detailed guidance and wisdom.
•
Location and Position is Important: Children should be sitting on the floor during
deep discussions where full attention is needed and deep guidance is being provided.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
You Are Friendly but Not Their Friend: A parent is guiding a child to become a wise decision
maker and will need to function differently in a relationship than a friend. Understand the
difference in roles and be sure to function in your role and guiding your child to interact with you
as a parent, not a friend through you being a parent, not a friend. You are one individual in a
network of people who will provide support, encouragement, and wisdom to help a child grow
into a wise decision maker. You are the primary gardener.
•
Ensure Your Child Understands True Love: Teach your child what is true love and practice true
love with your child so they can learn through experience. You love them unconditionally while
needing them to make wise decisions. Practicing true love does not mean your child gets
everything they want, when they want it, and how they want it. True love can also be to not give
them what they want as that is good for the mind to eliminate craving/desire/attachment.
•
Communicate Love: Love is communicated through speech but it is more clearly understood
through actions. Ensure your child knows you love them through your actions.
•
Love All Children and All Beings Equally: With multiple children, be sure to provide the same
level of care and attention to each child. Treat all beings as family, while understanding your role.
•
Quality versus Quantity: Prioritize quality time over quantity of time. Be involved and interested
in their life and how they make decisions through asking them questions.


Sharing The Path to Enlightenment:
How to Guide Children Along The Path?
•
Shared Custody: If the other parent is a Non-Practitioner, when returning,
there will be a period of adjustment and you will need to be patient while also
ensuring guidance is provided to practice The Teachings.
•
Influences from Others: When spending time with friends or at school, you
will observe influences that need to be discussed and guidance provided.
Cultivate wholesome and do not follow the unwholesome.
•
Excitement versus Enjoyment: The goal is not to create excitement in your
child based in craving/desire/attachment but to teach how to enjoy and move
on without the craving/desire for excitement (i.e. pleasant feelings).
•
Praise and Reward: Reward positivity and wholesome conduct. Reward
wise decisions and efforts, not only results. Your words, hugs, and kisses can
be rewards.


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Day 4
Afternoon


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Developing & Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
Friends and Life Partner
•
Acquire Wisdom: Develop your “life practice” on The Path to Enlightenment
so that you are deeply practicing these Teachings. Focus on developing your
own deep practice of these Teachings.
•
The Natural Law of Kamma: Your Life -> Your Decisions -> Your Results
Who you choose to involve in your life matters.
•
The Snake Has Passed Through Feces: May not bite you but, will smear
you.
•
The Five Precepts: Guidance for how to significantly eliminate your
unwholesome decisions therefore, involving people in your life who are
practicing these will help reduce unwholesome results (i.e. unwholesome
Kamma).


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
•
Wholesome Friends = Wise Friends: Wisdom of these Teachings will
produce wholesome decisions and wholesome results (i.e. wholesome
Kamma). Ideally, all individuals will be learning and practicing these
Teachings. Where not possible, look for the same qualities of mind in others
that you are cultivating.
•
Understands and Practices Non-Clinging/Non-Attachment: Look for
individuals who are comfortable with practicing non-clinging/non-attachment.
Otherwise, there will be discontentedness in the relationship.
•
Do Not Allow Others to Cling: Learn how to observe craving/desire/
attachment/clinging in others, and learn how to help them eliminate it
ensuring the relationship is established and maintained on a solid foundation.


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
•
True Love: Deeply understand and practice “True Love: Love Without
Attachment”. Eliminate expectations of others understanding, accepting, and
being comfortable with their unique decisions. Love is not attachment.
Missing a person is not love. Grief is not love. Love individuals “as they are”.
•
Politeness, Kindness, Friendliness, and Respect: The foundation to every
healthy relationship. When a relationship is lacking these, best to move on
while maintaining loving-kindness and compassion understanding any
discontent feelings in the mind are being caused by your own cravings/
desires/attachments. Giving, Endearing Speech, Beneficent Conduct (Moral
Conduct), and Equality.
•
Eliminate Confrontation: Develop ability to discuss and disagree with
politeness, kindness, friendliness, and respect. Do not crave/desire
permanent agreement.


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
•
Do Not Assume You Know the Full Story: Ask questions and seek
understanding before making decisions and sharing wisdom. Ask the “what,
why, and how” to understand your friends/partners thought process of why
they are making the decisions they are making so that you can develop an
appreciation for their ideas even when different than yours.
•
Problem Solver: Be a good problem solver looking at situations as a
challenge not a problem. Introduce ideas for solutions and find the solution
that works for all involved.
•
Take Your Time: There is no hurry to acquire friends or a life partner. You
need to observe individuals in multiple situations to deeply understand them.
There is no rush to spend the rest of your life with someone.


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
•
How Do They Treat Others: Observe how they treat waiters, taxi drivers,
mom/dad, siblings, etc. How they treat others is how they will treat you.
•
Pleasing Others Through Your Relationship Choices: Do not base your
decision criteria for friends/life partner on others expectations and pleasing
others. Your Life -> Your Decisions -> Your Results
•
Leave Space for Growth: As friends and life partners are changing, leave
space for that to occur without craving permanence. Do not crave/desire for
things to never change.


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
Life Partner
•
Perfect Partner Does Not Exist: Not looking for a “perfect partner”, because
that person only exists as a dream inside the mind and is constantly
changing. Understands life is challenging and the goal is to learn how to face
those challenges individually and together while supporting each other.
•
Develop Important Skills: Look to develop important problem solving skills
prior to confirming the relationship through marriage or other formal
commitment. Develop open discussions and ability to disagree while
remaining polite, kind, friendly, and respectful. Ability to make unified
decisions and support those decisions.
•
Official Marriage Is Not Required: Two people can maintain a healthy
relationship without informing the government, if you like.


Developing and Maintaining
Relationships: Choosing Wholesome
Friends and a Life Partner
•
No Such Thing as “Happily Ever After”: Instead, it is meet each other, learn
each other, work on developing skills and abilities to solve challenges with
each other. Learn to communicate. Learn to have discussions. Learn to be
friends. Learn to not want anything from each other. Learn to be interested in
seeing your partner be well and succeed. Support, encourage, and motivate
each other to accomplish whatever they’d like to accomplish without putting
any expectations or controlling conduct into the relationship.
•
Spend Time Doing Different Activities: Learn how to exist in the same
dwelling while doing different activities prior to confirming the relationship.
•
Changes Will Occur: There will be changes to the appearance of a life
partner and changes in the relationship. They are unavoidable and the mind
needs to be conformable with change not craving/desiring permanence.
(i.e. The Universal Truth of Impermanence)


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Day 5
Morning


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The Path to Enlightenment:
Practicing “The Path” in the Workplace


The Path to Enlightenment: Practicing
“The Path” in the Workplace
•
Acquire Wisdom: Develop your “life practice” on The Path to Enlightenment
so that you are deeply practicing these Teachings. Focus on developing your
own deep practice of these Teachings.
•
Meditation and Generosity: Breathing Mindfulness Meditation, Loving-
kindness Meditation, and well developed practice of generosity.
•
Eliminate Complacency: When active with a lot of work and projects, it is
even more important to “practice” The Teachings to include meditation.
•
Practice of Right Livelihood: Not practicing business in weapons, living
beings, meat, substances that cause heedless, and poisons. Then, develop a
livelihood that is not based in craving, anger, and ignorance. Life sustaining
but also fulfilling, motivating, and one is enthusiastically performing the daily
responsibilities of the livelihood with ease and no discontentedness
associated with one’s livelihood.


The Path to Enlightenment: Practicing
“The Path” in the Workplace


The Path to Enlightenment: Practicing
“The Path” in the Workplace
•
The Mind Can Only Do One Thing: The mind is only capable of doing one
thing at a time. Multi-tasking is only training the mind to rapidly cycle from
“thing, to thing, to thing” promoting an overactive mind. Then, the mind easily
experiences boredom and loneliness when there is lack of stimulation and
extensive cravings/desires will arise.
•
Practice Singleness of Mind: Do not attempt to focus on multiple things at
one time. Gradually train the mind to do one thing at a time.
•
One Person at a Time: Interact with others, in a way, that promotes
singleness of mind. Do not allow people who choose to attempt to do
multiple things at a time to influence what you choose to do.
•
Calm -> Mindfulness -> Concentration -> Wisdom: Wise decisions lead to
wholesome outcomes (i.e. wholesome Kamma).


The Path to Enlightenment: Practicing
“The Path” in the Workplace
•
Right View: Accept and acknowledge responsibility for projects and
assignments. Everything that is experienced is a result of your decisions.
•
Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood:
Essential to practice these Teachings at all times to cultivate wholesome
relationships in your livelihood.
•
Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration: Cultivate and
practice “mental discipline” while functioning in your livelihood.


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The Art of The Friendly “No”: How to
Say "No" Without Saying “NO"


The Art of The Friendly “No”: How to
Say “No” Without Saying “NO”.
•
Problem: The unEnlightened mind does not typically like hearing the word
“no”. (Also, can’t, don’t, won’t, etc.)
•
Solution: It is best not to use these words but instead, find alternative ways
to communicate.
•
Examples in Personal and Professional Relationships
•
Invitation to a Party or Event
•
Borrowing Money
•
Examples from Students


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Integrating The Teachings
Into Your Life
•
Attend weekly classes either in-person or online and attend in-depth learning
opportunities on an as needed basis.
•
Read “Developing a Life Practice: The Path to Leads to Enlightenment”
(Volume 1) 10-20 minutes per day.
•
Develop a daily practice of generosity to frequently give and share without any
expectation of anything in return such as your time, effort, energy, and resources.
•
Develop a daily practice of wholesome moral conduct using The Eight Fold Path
as your guide.
•
Develop a daily meditation practice of 2-3 times per day for 30+ minutes per
session. This can take 6-24 months to gradually develop.
•
Seek guidance from a Teacher as you need help.


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Daily Wisdom - Walking The Path with The Buddha
Dedicated to the education of Gotama Buddha’s Teachings to attain Enlightenment.
The Group Learning Program
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Saturday @ 9:00AM/PM (Thailand Time)
You are invited to learn The Teachings of Gotama Buddha on
The Path to Enlightenment.