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Reviewing the second half of Chapter 4, covering benefits of keeping Pratimoksha vows, avoiding intoxicants, choosing celibacy, and confessing transgressions of precepts.
Explaining the six essential conditions necessary for developing serenity in retreat, drawing from Indian and Chinese sources, teaching from Chapter 6.
Covering a descriptive definition of serenity, and explaining some of the many benefits of developing serenity, including 3 verses from Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, teaching from Chapter 6.
Explaining the beautiful prayer on monastic discipline written by His Holiness the Dalia Lama in 1973, concluding Chapter 5. Beginning Chapter 6, "The Higher Training in Concentration and the Perfection of Meditative Stability"
