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Retreat Dharma Talks

Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

These are very introductory talks to the Middle Length Discourses given during the period of Lockdown in spring 2020.

2020-04-02 (102 days) Satipanya Buddhist Retreat

  
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2020-05-24 50 Dog Ascetic Discourse MN57 1:21:24
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2020-05-24 51 Potiliya Sutta MN54 20:42
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Talk 15 mins The Eight Abandonments and consequences if they are not abandoned. Meditation Practice and Contemplations.
2020-05-25 52 Good Friendship 22:34
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Passages from Social and Communal Harmony by Bhikkhu Bodhi. AN7.36 DN31 Sn45.2
2020-05-26 53 Advice to Channa MN144 15:55
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Concerning suicide.
2020-05-27 54 Ambalathika Rahula Sutta MN61 1:20:52
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The Buddha talks to his son, Rahula about lying and how to reflect.
2020-05-28 55 The Greater Discourse to Rahula 1:20:43
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The Buddha skilfully guides his son, around 18 years of age, to navigate the desire to return to the household life.
2020-05-29 56 The Shorter Discourse to Saccaka 1:21:04
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2020-05-30 57 The Many Kinds of Elements MN115 20:24
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The basic law of conditionality - This-that Law Idhapaccayata. Dependent Origination - the First Six Links : ignorance, habits, consciousness, body and mind, and the six sense bases and contact
2020-05-31 58 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 22:13
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Continuing Dependent Origination. For further reading: PDF download - Ven.P.A.Payutto : Dependent Origination - The Buddhist Law of Conditionality. For a deeper understanding: Bhikkhu Bodhi - The Great Discourse on Causation DN15
2020-06-01 59 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 23:26
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The Elements and What is Possible and what is Impossible
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