Seeing the implications of our behaviour for ourselves and others. 

A six-week course exploring Buddhist Ethics. Provided by Vajrapriya, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, UK. This is the fourth module of Vajrapriya’s Level Two Buddhism Course in six modules.

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Overview

• Ethics as individual choice
• Love – the golden rule
• Generosity – respecting and contributing
• Contentment – weakening the neurotic drives
• Honesty – being true about ourselves
• Awareness – the working edge for any growth

Week 1: Ethics As Individual Choice

a) Attitudes when trying to communicate ethics

b) Notes for the teacher, including suggestions for:

• Learning outcomes for module
• Exercise: Why practise ethics?
• Sources of ethical judgment
• The workings of karma
• Intention
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The resources include:

• Notes for the course leader (including learning objectives, guide lines for input and exercises, background information, suggestions for home practice)
• Exercises, and handouts
• Overview of the course
• An overview of the whole of life’s dynamics in symbolic form.
• The wheel of life – knowing our realm
• The wheel of life – karma and rebirth
• The wheel of life – the chain of conditioning, “staying in the gap”
• The spiral path – to Insight and beyond
• The mandala of the five Buddhas – Akshobya and Amitabha
• The mandala
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