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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 108: One Who Harms No Living Being
Description: In this episode, we explore non-harmfulness. Non-harm is so central to Buddhism, the two can not be separated from each other. Our own inner peace is dependent upon lessening and eventually eliminating the harm we do to others. Inner peace is the great victory and prize for removing this harm from our actions of body, speech and mind. ----------------------------------------- While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (270) of this book, with reference to a fisherman named Ariya. Once, there was a fisherman who lived near the north...