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The greatest gift is the
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Dharma Talks
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2012-04-09
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two)
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Stephen Batchelor
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Reflections on "an ordinary person's life," as understood in a passage by the 9th century Chan master Teshan. This idea is related to the Buddha's phenomenological analysis of human experience (the "all") into namarupa and consciousness, a vision of life where there is no transcendent awareness or consciousness "outside" ordinary experience, thereby revealing a common thread between the Pali Canon and early Chan.
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Gaia House
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Zen Retreat
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2012-04-08
A Wilderness Traveller
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Ayya Medhanandi
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All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail through that wilderness, establishing trust and confidence, and persevering. We are guided by wisdom and mindfulness to purify ourselves; and we are willing to make sacrifices – even to suffer – for the treasures of the Path.
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Sati Saraniya Hermitage
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2012-04-07
Life-Saving Treasure
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Ayya Medhanandi
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A reflection on the Upaddha Sutta (Half of the Holy Life) about the importance of good friends, companions, and comrades on the Eightfold Noble Path. Good friends encourage and share in developing seclusion of mind, dispassion towards the sense pleasures of the world, and, ultimately, the cessation of suffering that leads to a lasting freedom and peace.
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Ottawa Buddhist Society
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2012-04-07
The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One)
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Stephen Batchelor
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Buddhist meditation is the refinement of a sensibility rather the gaining of proficiency in a technique. This sensibility is founded on "embracing dukkha", i.e. the totality of one's existential condition, and then cultivating meditation as (a) embodiment, (b) receptivity and (c) wonderment. Such a sensibility can then be further developed through stillness (samatha) and insight (vipassana).
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Gaia House
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Zen Retreat
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2012-04-03
Fundamentals of the Dharma: Staying Within Yourself
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Rodney Smith
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In the West we have little preparation for dharma practice because our lives have not been tuned to staying within ourselves. We have been taught to look outside for approval and to compare ourselves to others. How can we possibly find ourselves within any comparison? All we will ever find is a sense of lacking. Leaning toward the world does not allow us to find our own stability, and yet we cannot question the sense of self without inward evenness and dependability.
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Seattle Insight Meditation Society
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Fundamentals of the Dharma
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