Forest Path - Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

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course, certain environments are more conducive to the work than
others — that is why the Buddha established monasteries and a
monastic order — but even so wherever we are, in whatever posture
we find ourselves, we can do the work of developing awareness,
turning the light within.
We seek to learn from experience whatever it is, learning to see
things as dhammas rather than as ‘this person’, ‘that person’, and
‘this and that’. We steadily apply ourselves to the process of
de-conditioning and re-education. Stopping the rot. Making a
fresh start, again and again. Infinitely patient. Until the work is
done.
With the faith that the Buddha was fully enlightened, with the trust
that the teachings which he shared with human beings and devas for
forty-five years are true, and with the conviction that the ariya