…eping to their spirit and doing what will be for the good of all in the day-to-day matters at hand. To Whom the Rules Apply The rules of the Order govern only the conduct of members of the Order, that is, monks, postulants, and lay ministers: those who officially represent the Order actively or by example. They do not govern the conduct of lay congregation members who are not postulants or lay ministers. Where they exist, rules that may apply dire…
…her publications from the OBC, and is available at various online booksellers. To read more about general Buddhism see Basic Buddhist Concepts by Kogen Mizuno, (available at various online booksellers) or The Buddha And His Teachings by Narada Thera (available in pdf form here and at various online booksellers). …
…of a separate self and separate others is seldom questioned amidst the day-to-day flow of events in life. These perceptions arise from the natural part of us, the functioning of which is very much concerned with preserving our physical existence. If Understanding belongs to a realm wherein the opposites of existence and non-existence are transcended, then the path of the natural self is, on its own, limited and is unlikely to lead to enlightenme…
…ye. And you awaken to the fact that you don’t have to be a swirling thought-cloud. You’ve put something down. You’ve seen the house-builder; the creator of worlds. You don’t seek truth, or call something delusion; and you return to a place you fundamentally never left. And you’ve transmuted the ordinary mind into the Buddha mind. There’s the whole alchemical process of trying to transmute lead into gold; transmute something base into something spe…