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Parent topics: Saṅgha, Community
2 excerpts, 6:13 total duration
Metta Retreat, Session 3 – Ajahn Pasanno – Sep. 11, 2008

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1. “One of my lay insight mediation teachers said, 'The Western lay practitioner is an experiment in Buddhism.' What do you think? To me it seems our lay teachers are also an experiment.” [Culture/West] [Lay life] [Lay teachers] // [Monastic life] [Abhayagiri] [Sīladharā] [Culture/Thailand]

Quote: “Because the monastic presence is so strong in Asia, oftentimes people overlook the strength of the tradition of lay practice and lay teachers.” [Cultural context]

Story: The Buddha tells Māra he will found the fourfold assembly (UD 6.1). [Buddha/Biography] [Māra] [Fourfold Assembly] [Stages of awakening] [Learning]

Abhayagiri 2014 Winter Retreat, Session 57 – Ajahn Pasanno – Mar. 27, 2014

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4. “There was a reference to the 4 assembles – what are they?” [Fourfold Assembly]