The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony, by Bhikkhu Bodhi

I’ve started working through Bhikkhu Bodhi’s collection, “The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony”, which contains a nice collection of suttas particularly relevant to lay life and society. One might think of this as an elaboration of some sections of “In the Buddha’s Words”.

http://www.wisdompubs.org/book/buddhas-teachings-social-and-communal-harmony

Unfortunately, unlike “In the Buddha’s Words”, the introductory material is not available on-line.

Over on Dhamma Wheel I’ve started to post links to the suttas (or sections of suttas) to aid discussion of this material: https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=345&start=20#p420589

So far I’ve got Chapter 1, Right Understanding, here: https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=29258&p=420590#p420590. I’ll probably be posting chapters about every three weeks, as part of the Study Group cycle, so it will take a few months to work through the book.

I’d like to acknowledge the really useful facility of Sutta Central that allows links to sections of suttas. That’s particularly useful for a short extract from a DN sutta!

Comments welcome here or over on Dhamma Wheel.

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