The Buddha’s Five Protections: Part 2 The Buddha spoke of five ways that we can nurture and protect the seeds of truth that we have planted: first through morality, and then through understanding and studying the teachings, as we described in the previous post. The next protection comes through having the support of spiritual friends, good friends, and being able to explore and discuss the teachings with these good friends. This is likened to loosening the earth around the roots of a plant or tree. In contact with the spiritual community, spiritual friends, or a teacher, we can often dissolve the artificial constructs of our own sense of limitation and see what our potential actually is in a given moment. We can more readily connect our immediate experience to a larger picture. We’re not left alone with our own sense of what we are capable of, or our own lonely interpretation of what is happening. Continue Reading: goo.gl/JhAAKY
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:37:21 +0000
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