Ajahn Amaro offered reflections at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas on failure and success. When integrating the Dhamma perspective, one moves further away from “what I like or dislike” and closer to “what can I learn from it?” As we come upon the sweet and bitter tastes of life experiences, we can growingly understand them as impermanent experiences we can learn from. He emphasized the importance of having good and wise friends, and their role in offering feedback on our conduct and starting the process of coming out of greed, hatred, and delusion. He also answered the assembly’s questions, including how to give feedback and receive feedback, how to contemplate on death, how to fully engage in meaningful projects without attaching to the outcomes, etc.