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Stephen Batchelor's Dharma Talks
Stephen Batchelor
2014-07-20 Religion, Faith and Belief 56:22
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2014-04-29 Nirvana is Now 60:30
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2014-04-28 Instructions - Questioning (day five) 33:36
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2014-04-27 The Everyday Sublime 62:23
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2014-04-26 Instructions (day three) 31:55
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2014-04-25 A Dry Shit Stick 60:13
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2014-04-24 Instructions - Mindfulness of Breath (day one) 30:42
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2013-07-20 Morning Talk - Buddhist Scepticism? 57:05
Concluding reflections on scepticism and the problem of certainty. Comparisons between early Buddhism and the sceptical Greek philosophy of Pyrrho.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-19 Morning Talk - On Emptiness 56:51
Reflections on the Culasunnattasutta (The Short Discourse on Emptiness) from the Majjhima Nikaya (M. 121).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-18 Morning Talk - How to Live a Life Without Opinions 58:29
Reflections on the Paramattakasutta (The Discourse of Eight on Ultimacy) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 796-803). This talk begins with a guided meditation, introduced by Martine Batchelor.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-17 Morning Talk - The Ultimate 56:58
Reflections on the Suddhattakasutta (The Discourse of Eight on Purity) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 788-95).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-16 Morning Talk - Aridity 61:50
Reflections on the Duṭṭhattaksutta (The Discourse of Eight on the Wrong) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 780-7).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-15 Morning Talk - Solitude 56:41
Reflections on the Guhatthakasutta (The Discourse of Eight on the Cell) from the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata (Sn. 772-9).
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-14 Morning Talk - A Secular Vision 60:35
An introduction to a secular Buddhist interpretation of the dharma through the example of rethinking the four noble truths as four noble tasks, thus establishing a context for the reflections on a series of suttas.
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-07-12 Opening Talk 47:03
This talk also includes Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Study Retreat - A Secular Buddhist Retreat
2013-04-25 A Solar Buddhism 65:17
How the metaphor of the sun informed the early Buddhist community in India and might also inspire a contemporary vision of the Dharma.
Gaia House The Zen Retreat
2013-04-23 Your Original Face 61:24
How the grounds of nirvana and conditionality to which the Buddha awoke can be understood in terms of the Zen image of ones original face.
Gaia House The Zen Retreat
2013-04-21 Clearly Visible but Hard to See 51:21
How the term Dharma as defined in the Pali Canon might be considered from a Zen Buddhist perspective.
Gaia House The Zen Retreat
2013-04-19 Opening Talk 55:50
This talk also includes Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Zen Retreat
2012-07-21 A Secular Culture of Awakening 62:54
Reflections on the nature of Secular Buddhism as a culture, its relation to the orthodox traditions of the dharma, and its understanding of sangha (community).
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-19 The Four 60:46
Reflections on the Four (noble truths/tasks) as the culmination of the practice of mindfulness as described in the Satipatthana Sutta.
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-18 The Five Bundles 60:21
Reflections on the Buddha's understanding of human experience as differentiated through the five bundles (khandha/aggregates).
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-17 The Hindrances 58:59
Reflections on the five hindrances as understood through their personification in the figure of Mara (the demonic).
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-16 Radical Attention 59:28
Reflections on meditation as radical attention (yoniso manasikara), mindfulness of breathing, and the Satipatthana Sutta.
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-15 The Everyday Sublime 63:38
Reflections on the origins and aims of meditation understood as a sensibility rather than a technique.
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat

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