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Stephen Batchelor's Dharma Talks in English
Stephen Batchelor
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2012-07-15 The Everyday Sublime 63:38
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Reflections on the origins and aims of meditation understood as a sensibility rather than a technique.
Gaia House :  Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-19 The Four 60:46
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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
2012-04-07 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One) 59:36
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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).
Gaia House :  Zen Retreat
2012-04-09 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two) 62:09
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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.
Gaia House :  Zen Retreat
2012-03-19 01 What is Secular Buddhism? 52:59
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A definition of the term "Secular Buddhism;" a practice-based rather than belief-based form of the dharma; concern with human flourishing in this life; links with the Hellenistic philosophies of Pyrrho and Epicurus.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism
2012-03-21 02 The Four Noble Tasks 48:14
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The Pali Canon as a user's manual for this life; reconfiguring the core elements of the dharma; problems with the term "truth;" rewriting the operating system of Buddhism: from Buddhism 1.0 to Buddhism 2.0; the post-metaphysical practice of the four noble tasks; the acronym ELSA.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism
2012-03-23 03 A Culture of Awakening 55:13
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The four P's: principle of conditionality, process of the four tasks, practice of mindfulness, power of self-reliance; ELSA as a framework for living; the city as a key metaphor of Secular Buddhism; emergence of a secular sangha based on friendships that support self-reliance.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism
2012-03-11 04 Experience 57:02
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The Buddha's criteria for regarding a statement as valid; a pragmatic view of the dharma; the "all" is equivalent to "experience" or "life" -- no need of metaphysical realities; supportive quote by Lucretius; awakening to the delight, tragedy and emancipation of life.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism
2012-03-12 05 Namarupa and Consciousness 61:57
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Meaning of the term "namarupa" in Upanishads and early Buddhism; the Buddha's critique of an unconditioned consciousness; the interdependence of namarupa and consciousness like two sheaves of reeds.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism
2012-03-13 06 Dukkha and Tanha 60:27
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Definition of dukkha; dukkha and pleasure; "fully understanding" dukkha; the Buddha and Nagarjuna's understanding of the five bundles as not self; definition of tanha (craving); clinging and narcissism.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) :  An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

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