INVITATION TO THE UPASAKA PROGRAM [in English] At Samanadipa Hermitage we are organizing the Upasaka Program where practitioners commit to purify their virtue and practice according to the Buddha's Teaching. Bhante Hiriko is inviting people to take that training seriously. In this video, he is emphasizing the necessity of purity of virtue which is already in itself a practice of composure, the essential foundation for developing wisdom. Every follower of the Buddha has to preserve the five basic precepts and also the eight precepts at least once a week.