Dhammarato Dhamma

Dhammarato helps Anna in teaching a child and helping her family be happy.

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00:00:00 Adult-child relationships

Dhammarato dissects the mind jungle and ways of organizing it through Anapanasati. He breaks down the process of getting into good state of mind by waking up, noticing an unwholesome thought, Nurturing yourself into feeling good by placing a wholesome thought, and remembering to do it over and over again. He compares this practice to the practice of choiceless awareness and the Mahasi method of noting. He gives a precise definition Metta and takes another look at the Boddhisattva ideal. With a touch of humor, he shares what is usually done in the Buddhist circles around conversations about past lives and dream interpretation. 

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0:00 Training your mind

Dhammarato covers fear as the basic emotion and ways to feel secure in the fear-based society. He describes how to see our wholesomeness using observational data and how to feel safe, comfortable, satisfied, and successful. He playfully touches upon "the beginner mentality" and Gross Happiness Product.

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0:00 Fear

Dhammarato gives a definition of Dukkha and conceptual thinking. He outlines the causes of suffering and ways of ceasing it by bringing joy into the moment through the right noble view. 

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0:00 General Systems Theory: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, i.e. a car or a grandfather clock

Dhammarato connects biology of the human mind with the way we act in this world. He identifies the difference between our critical and Nurturing thoughts, our habits to talk ourselves into feeling bad, and our ability to wake up and gladden the mind by talking ourselves into feeling good. Using real-life practical examples, he defines real powers and magical powers; tangible pain and rising above it; Samadhi and concentration.

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0:00 Reptilian brain: Fear vs Wisdom. Mammalian brain: nesting, territorial instincts. Frontal Cortex: connecting the dots.

Dhammarato dwells upon the notion of enlightenment and its faulty western interpretation. He emphasizes the only teaching of the Buddha, and that is of Dukkha and Dukkha Nirodha. He then brings attention to the practical method of getting rid of Dukkha and gladdening the mind through doing a deep breathing and, literally, talking oneself into feeling good. 

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0:00 Anapanasati practice as fulfillment of Satipatthana

Olivia tells Dhammarato about an unpleasant story with her friends. Dhammarato identifies the feeling behind the hurt as a sense of loss and helps her turn her attitude around by ensuring that "being chipped" (or wounded) is okay. He explains that there is an opportunity for practicing a real freedom in letting it go.

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0:00 Boundaries

In this conversation, Dhammarato explains the concept of reality as Sunyata (Nothing much to it) by juxtaposing it to the concept of Void (Complete nothingness). He mentions the only four requisites that we need from the conceptualized/conventional/subjective world: enough food, enough shelter, enough clothes, and enough medical attention. In that arises a new consciousness, the one in pure present. 

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0:00 Sunyata - looking for something that's not there

Dhammarato outlines the only teaching of the Buddha that is set in noticing the Dukkha and getting rid of it immediately, and contra distinguishes it with the western mindset of meditating on just simply noticing the Dukkha without doing anything about it. He playfully compares it with 'taking a bath versus swimming in the sewer'. He helps Gurvinder conclude that even thoughts that don't contain ill-will, greed or delusion are unwholesome.   

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0:00 Meditation systems in Western mindset

Dhammarato shares the teaching of the Buddha, offering a little change in the conventional practice of the 8 Fold Noble Path. He suggests to start with Purification of the mind (Samadhi) while seeing the reality of the situation (Panna) without requiring seclusion (Sila) first. He also gives a useful working definition of "reaction" as an acquired habitual relationship of the human to the world akin to that of the relationship between the monkey and the coconut tree. 

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00:00 Samadhi = gathering the factors vs concentrating