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Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening (2017)

This course examines the Buddha's teachings on the seven factors of awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, stability of mind, and equanimity. It is the development and balancing of these wholesome factors that set in motion insight and the release from all grasping and stress.

2017-01-09 (50 days) Common Ground Meditation Center

  
2017-01-09 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 1 (2017) 1:28:08
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on: mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, stability of mind, and equanimity. It is the development and balancing of these seven wholesome factors that set in motion insight and the release from all grasping and stress. Here are three study resources to use as you wish, including the passage that I read from last night:
Attached Files:
  • Passage on the Scope of the Practice from Wings to Awakening, p. 161 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
  • The Buddha's Teachings on Mindfulness by Gil Fronsdal (Link)
  • The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening by Santikaro Bhikkhu (Link)
2017-01-16 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 2 - Mindfulness 62:13
Mark Nunberg
1st Factor of Awakening: Mindfulness
Attached Files:
  • The Basic Method of Meditation by Ajahn Brahmavamso (Link)
  • Contemplations on the Seven Factors of Awakening by Ajahn Thiradhammo (Link)
2017-01-23 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 3 - Investigation 1:24:44
Mark Nunberg
2nd Factor of Awakening: Investigation
2017-01-30 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 4 - Energy / Effort 62:42
Mark Nunberg
3rd Factor of Awakening: Energy / Effort
2017-02-06 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 5 - Joy / Rapture 1:28:01
Mark Nunberg
4th Factor of Awakening : Joy / Rapture
2017-02-08 Intentional Action - Karma - Week 3 56:03
Mark Nunberg
2017-02-13 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 6 - Tranquility 67:27
Mark Nunberg
5th Factor of Awakening : Tranquility
2017-02-20 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 7 - Concentration (Samadhi) - Talk 60:11
Mark Nunberg
6th Factor of Awakening : Samadhi (Concentration)
2017-02-27 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 8 - Equanimity 59:50
Mark Nunberg
7th Factor of Awakening : Equanimity
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