This Sunday: Steve Wilhelm

Sunday, January 11

10:00am - 12:00pm

Offered In-Person & Online via Zoom

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We’re pleased to welcome Steve Wilhelm, guest teacher from Seattle Insight Meditation Society, to PIMC for a special Dharma talk on Sīla: The Buddha’s Ethical Guidelines: At the very core of a healthy dharma life is healthy ethics, or sila. The essence of sila is refraining from actions rooted in one's own self-interest that damage any other sentient being. Close inspection of training in the five precepts -- not killing, not stealing, not lying, not clouding the mind with substances, not engaging in sexual misconduct -- shows that falters in ethics are ultimately based on putting self before other. Steve's talk will explore the crucial essence of sila, how failed sila will undermine all of our efforts on the path, and how cultivating good sila benefits others and ourselves.