Vajratara - Ethics

Vajratara is one of our youngest Public Preceptors, and has lived and worked at Tiratanaloka, the ordination training retreat centre in the UK, for over a decade. She also has a strong connection with our Indian Sangha, as chair of the India Dhamma Trust, a charity which works with FutureDharma Fund to support the ordination team in India. She will be our second speaker, on the theme of Sila Paramita.
"But we mustn’t forget that it is sila paramita with which we are concerned, sila as a Perfection, sila as a Transcendental Virtue, or sila as conjoined with Wisdom. Uprightness, even the greatest uprightness, is not an end in itself in Buddhism - it’s a means to Enlightenment. If uprightness is regarded as an end in itself, then it becomes, according to Buddhism, a hindrance."
Urgyen Sangharakshita
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