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Contents of Second Order Convention 1975

by Sangharakshita

... in the WBO
399-402Is celibacy necessary?
399-400The problem of emotional dependence on another person
403The role of the maha-upasika or anagarika
404-405In the Buddhist tradition no ordination is irrevocable
406The continuation of kalyana mitrata after ordination
407-408Ceremonies and ritual
409Final Session - Dharma Questions
Stopping the wheel of life and/or developing the successive stages of the
Spiral?
410There is no word for ‘Life’ in Sanskrit or Pali
412-417Devas as separately existing beings and as another level of consciousness
414The Buddha is beyond time
418-421Practices when one is close to death
422The importance of the last thought before death
424Cremation or burial
425-428Procedures at a cremation
429Visualisation meditation - the ‘self-generation’ and the ‘generation in front’
430-432The samayasattva and jnanasattva in Tantric tradition - Tantric aspects of
samatha and vipassana
433Being ‘careful’ when encountering wrathful Bodhisattva forms in meditation
434A version of the Vajrasattva mantra which incorporates Tara or
Avalokitesvara (Om Padmasattva Samaya.....)
436Absorbing the visualised figure into one’s heart as a ball of light
437Colours of mantras
441The Vajrasattva mantra as a way of purifying any errors in practice
444Avalokitesvara and the Nyingmapa tradition
445The difference between Mahayana and Tantra
‘Self-existing’ and ‘Evolved’ Bodhisattvas in the “Jewel Ornament of
Liberation”
447-448The Bodhicitta arising in a spiritual community, not just individually
450-456The path of regular steps and the path of irregular steps
451-452The use of vajra/dorje bells
458The precepts - principles rather than rules
Contentment and the third precept
459The positive forms of the precepts
460The Bodhiangas
462-465Gramatically negative terms in Sanskrit and Pali have a positive ring about
them
465Back to anagarikas and maha-upasakas
466The realisation of the Aryan truth of Dukkha and the experience of
Dukkha/suffering/unsatisfactoriness itself
468Buddhist parents and Buddhist offspring?

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