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Dharma Talks
2016-10-10
Practicing with Views and Opinions, Cultivating Empathy
1:25:00
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Donald Rothberg
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In the context of the current election campaign as well as the context of our daily lives, we explore how to understand and practice with our views, opinions, and interpretations. We first look at the nature of views, the Buddha’s teachings on views, and three main ways to practice with views, with particular attention to being mindful of reactivity (attachment and aversion) in relation to views. We then examine the nature of empathy and how to cultivate empathy in relationship to others (and ourselves), including those with different views.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2016-10-10
Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 4
56:14
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Mark Nunberg
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Please take this week to more clearly discern the gratification & allure of sense experience and the drawbacks & limitations of sense experience. Remember, the practice is to collect honest data. The purification of view that the mind has toward sensuality does happen because we want to shift our view, rather, it happens because the data that the mind collects through being mindful overwhelms older views/beliefs about sensuality and allows for a newer, more refined, wiser view to arise in its place. One theme you might use for your small group sharing is, what if any data has this mind or heart, collected in the recent past that demonstrates the limitations and drawbacks of sense experience?
Some Additional Readings for Week 4:
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
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Attached Files:
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Mind Like Fire Unbound Chapter III 'Forty cartloads of timber.'
by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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What You Take Home With You by Ajahn Sucitto
(Google Doc)
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