Teaching from Chapter 7, explaining name and form in Pali tradition and describing the fifth link, six sources.

Covering Verses 104-112 of Chapter 6 "Patience" and exploring various reasonings for why we should venerate and cherish those who harm us

Teaching from Chapter 7, covering the third link according to the Pali tradition and explaining the fourth link, name and form.

Covering Verses 97-105 of Chapter 6 on how we can see those who harm us as not obstacles to be overcome, but rather a helpful condition for our spiritual growth

Teaching from Chapter 7, explaining the third link of the twelve links of dependent origination, consciousness.

Looking at the disadvantages of attachment to praise and blame, covering Verses 90-98 of Chapter 6

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining formative action, the second of the twelve links of dependent origination.

Commenting on Ver. 85-90, Chapter 6, demonstrating how using daily events can reveal the faults of anger and show that it does not secure the happiness we seek

Exploring the practice of fortitude in terms of working with various crises that can arise in one’s monastic life

Reviewing Chapter 1, covering four truths and sixteen attributes of the four truths.