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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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Tuesday Talks—2012
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2012-01-01 (366 days)
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
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2012-01-10
Spiritual Friendships
33:20
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Kim Allen
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| Kalyana mitta, or spiritual friendship, is a foundation of the Buddhist path. Through examining a number of suttas related to friendship, we gain an understanding of the important qualities and ways of relating to wise friends. |
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2012-02-14
What Must Be Known
34:58
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Shaila Catherine
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| What do we need to know, understand, investigate, and realize through our meditation practice? In the Anguttara Nikaya. VI, 63, the Buddha described six things that should be known in six ways. The six things to be known include desires, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma (actions of body speech and mind), and suffering. Each can be known through their presence, conditioned origin, diversity, outcome, cessation, and way to cessation. This talk explores the structure and details of this brief sutta teaching, and proposes a practical approach to investigating the mind and our relationship with life. |
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Buddhist Perspectives on Right View
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2012-02-21
Danger of Fixation
36:05
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Shaila Catherine
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| How does suffering manifest in attachment to views? This talk explores right view and addresses the danger of attaching to a position, philosophy, belief, or opinion. Primary sources are the teachings from the Middle Length discourses numbers 72 and 74. Recognizing the dangers of attachment and clinging to beliefs and opinions, we directly investigate what can be known in the mind and body. This is a pragmatic path of mindful awareness that results in actions that are immediately liberating. |
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Buddhist Perspectives on Right View
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