What Is Sangha? | The Sangha US #23 | 1.29.22

Dhammarato and friends discuss the duties and benefits of Sangha, the lack of a Sangha in the West, friendliness and honesty as duties to the Dhamma, volunteering without the need to be in charge or to take ownership, a new model of Dhamma-teaching, and informal distribution of support through the mechanisms of an open Sangha.

See the video version of this call on YouTube.

►YouTube Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljA5RYyRu88

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To unite the growing interest in Buddhism with the hundreds of Buddhist wats in the West, we are in the process of starting the Open Sangha Foundation. If you want to learn more or volunteer to help, join the discord link above and navigate to the "open-sangha" text channel.

We are in the process of timestamping and organizing the 1000+ Dhammarato skype calls on this channel. If you would like to help with the process, find more information here - https://bit.ly/3H1EWSA

What do the numbers in the title mean? The number by the name of the student indicates the total amount of recorded calls with Dhammarato. The date in the title indicates the date the call was recorded.

00:00:00 Sangha is the gem in the crown

00:03:22 We all have a duty to the Dhamma

00:08:20 Friendliness and honesty

00:14:05 Cultivating a wide variety of friends

00:17:40 Western Buddhism lacks a Sangha

00:29:53 The importance of monks and nobles

00:48:09 How can we promote Sangha?

00:58:46 No one needs to be in charge of have ownership

01:06:11 The benefits of volunteering

01:10:01 Work should not be too burdensome

01:13:38 A new model of Dhamma-teaching

01:19:23 Informal distribution of support & no formal ordination process

01:22:37 The sotāpan has the highest duty

01:32:29 Gaining benefit from volunteer work

01:33:14 How to investigate the causes of depression