2023-08-13 Dharma Talk | What We Are Doing In This Practice | Todd Bankler by Appamada

2023-08-07 | Depth In Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 4, part 2 | Thomas Cleary by Appamada

I would love to live

Like a river flows,

Carried by the surprise

Of its own unfolding.

~ John O’Donohue in Fluent

00:00:19 - Class 6 Begins

00:00:25 - Joel Weaves the Precept and Preliminaries Together

00:01:26 - Training in the The Preliminaries - Joel Describes These…

00:01:53 - The 1st Preliminary - The Rarity and Preciousness of Human Life

00:04:45 - The Inevitability of Death

00:05:29 - The Awesome and Indelible Power of Our Actions

00:12:27 - Joel Describes the Activity for the Connecting Rooms

00:14:43 - Questions for the Connection Rooms: What is stealing? How might it arise in my life?/How can I know what is freely given?/Do I steal from myself? If so, how?/What is generosity? Is it the same or different from giving freely? How might it be expressed without reinforcing a separate sense self? - Connection Rooms for 15 Mins in Groups of 3

00:14:56 - Thoughts/Reflections from the Connection Rooms

00:33:39 - Joel Talks About Ellen Hippard's Talk on 'Rupture and Repair', 2nd July 2023 - (Written Copy Available via Email Request)

00:36:37 - Joel Leads us into a Metta Practice

00:38:14 - Joel Offers Some Words from Peg Syverson About Metta Practice

00:40:29 - Joel Begins the Meta Practice

00:45:32 - Joel Talks About Offering Dana to Appamada - (Appamada.org/contribute)

00:47:57 - Next Months Class

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00:00:20 - Joel Opens the Class wit a Brief Ceremony to Help Situate Us in Big Mind

00:01:20 - We Chant the 'Verse of the Robe' Together

00:02:42 - Figuring Out the Boundaries of the Class

00:07:16 - Joel Offers a Talk On the Precept - I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully and with an Open Heart

00:16:51 - Article - The Birds are Singing, but Not for Me’. Link - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/opinion/hearing-aging-deafness.html By David George Haskell

00:20:26 - Ways in Which we are Different from Other Species - Desire and Bonds

00:30:17 - Joel Leads us into Breakout Rooms with Clear Instruction - Looking at the List of the Precepts - Speaking truthfully - Speaking of Others with Openness and Possibility - Meeting Others on Equal Ground - Cultivating a clear Mind - Taking Only What is freely given, and giving Freely of all that I Can - The Way Of Letting go Of Anger - The Way Of Supporting Life, Consider How These other precepts help inform us of the Precept ‘I Take Up the Way of Engaging in Sexual Intimacy Respectfully and with an Open Heart’

00:31:44 - Joel Explains the Format of the Breakout Rooms - Sit for 5 minutes - Write for 10 Minutes Individually - 3 Minutes Each to Share What you are Willing/wish to Share - if you Do not wish to Share, Please take your 3 minutes to sit with others in Silence - 5 minutes for reflecting together/sharing - 25 minutes in Total

00:33:45 - Breakout Rooms Begin - Instructions in Above TimeStamp - 00:30:17 and 00:32:44

00:33:58 - Discussion Around Recording

00:37:02 - Reflections and Sharings for this Particular Precept were not Recorded

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