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Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox

Jun 28, 2021

 

I’m this episode we look at what the Buddha said about character. The English word for character comes from the Greek word chisel. A sculptor uses a chisel to mold a piece of stone into a work of art, or to cut away what is unnecessary. We chisel our character like a sculptor transforms stone into beauty. How? By...


Jun 14, 2021

Gray hair

     Does not make one an elder.

Someone ripe only in years

     Is called “an old fool.”

It is through truth,

     Dharma, harmlessness, restraint, and self-control,

That the wise one, purged of impurities

     Is called “an elder.” (Verse 260-261)

 

The Eightfold Path consists of eight practices:...