Jeff Fracher gave this dharma talk on January 24, 2017 at the Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville.

The Buddha taught the precepts, not as an arbitrary set of rules, but as a crucial part of a skillful path of freedom from suffering. Following the precepts, he taught, leads to sane and joyous living that binds all beings together by cultivating goodheartedness, compassion and restraint. In this talk we investigate the meaning and practice of non-harming.

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