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THE WAY OF LIFE
5. Bringing small children to the Upashraya at the time of discourses.
6. Asking irrelevant questions.
7. Sitting indecently.
8. Coming to hear discourses wearing improper dress and decorations.
You please tell me how discourses can go on if people behave thus. Can you gain anything by listening to discourses in this manner? To speak the truth, such people cannot hear anything. They merely come here; sit here for sometime and go away without understanding any doctrine. Where is the question of their remembering anything when they do not hear anything? First, learn the method of listening to discourses.
OBSERVE THESE PRINCIPLES STRICTLY
1. Be seated here early and be present here from the time of the invocation.
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In case, you have to come late on account of some difficulty, sit at the back. Do not try to come and sit in front of the speaker.
Keep looking at the preacher.
Be silent.
Do not bring children to the discourses.
Ask relevant questions if you have any real doubt.
Sit in a decent manner.
Wear proper dress and decorations when you come to the Upashraya.
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Listen to the discourse with perfect concentration. Express in your face, emotions that accord with the matter of the discourse.
10. If you listen to discourses in this manner, even the preacher who delivers discourses finds delight in delivering discourses. He would have the enthusiasm to discuss the doctrines of Dharma.
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