Keeping Precepts without Clinging to Rites & Rituals | Silabbataparamasa | Ajahn Dhammasiha

Dhammagiri Buddhist Podcasts · Feb 10, 2025 · 42m

There are 10 fetters that bind us to Samsara, the repeated round of birth & death.

The third of these 10 'Saṃyojana' is 'Clinging to Rites & Rituals' =Sīlabbataparāmāsa

How do we preactise bowing, paying respects, keeping precepts, and offering Dāna to the sangha, without clinging?

How do we do these things without getting stuck in the fetter of Sīlabbataparāmāsa?

How do we use rituals, bowing, generosity and precepts not only to avoid bad karma, and to generate good karma, but also to develop samādhi and insight?

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