This playlist consists of three videos in the series covering mainly walking meditation practice while on walkabout (cārika). While walking around the countryside many and different forms of weather and difficulties arise, but it is important to overcome the small sufferings encountered to overcome the greater suffering of being stuck in samsāra.
In the Mahāyāna tradition in China, there are still many monks very strictly abiding to the Vinaya tradition, who engage in all the ascetic practices (dhutanga), and live a very austere life.
These are four videos in a series of films about the Vinaya-trained monks from the Miao Xiang Sangha, based in Liaoning in north-eastern China (bordering North Korea), who are living such a life, and records their various practices.
These rules differ somewhat from those in the better-known Theravāda traditions, but the monks abiding to these rules are equally bound to living a strict and austere life and are equally sincere in their practices.
It is also to be noted that along with reflections on the meaning of the dhutanga practices themselves, there are also reflections on Dharma and why we practice and what goals we are trying to achieve.
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