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  • Arriving Home | Cathal #3 | 7.14.22

    Cathal and Dhammarato talk about understanding life as a game and playing with it as a toy. #lifelessons #wisdom #play

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    00:00 The feeling that something should be done; arriving home

    06:35 All the world’s a stage… life scripts; the show on the inside and the outside
    12:30 Small moments of satisfaction
    14:44 Being awake to being unsettled; signs of confusion; step four of ānāpānasati: relax; the mind is the forerunner
    27:11 Cultivate liking who you are as you are; seeing clearly so we can make a change
    32:07 Craving to feel more; turning negative feelings upside down; remember to look and gladden the mind
    38:16 Mindfully breathe in long; mindfully breathe out long; it’s beautiful right here
    45:30 Be satisfied with very little; Western greed for experiences and attainments
    55:22 Life is a game, play with it as a toy; learning control

    1 hr
  • An Old Path | Christian B #1 | 7.13.22

    Christian and Dhammarato talk about the four foundational skills: right investigation (samma ditthi), right sati, right effort (samma vāyāma), and right attitude (samma sankappa), which lead to right noble unification of mind (samma samādhi), and to right speech (samma vācā), right action (samma kammanta) and right livelihood (samma ājiva). #nobleeightfoldpath #buddhadhamma #fournobletruths 

    Suttas mentioned in this discussion

    https://suttacentral.net/mn22
    https://suttacentral.net/mn117

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    00:00 The Buddha’s old path; learning from others; misapplication of the Dhamma

    05:57 Teaching only one thing: dukkha, dukkha-nirodha;,from unwholesome to wholesome; bitten by the Dhamma (MN 22)
    11:05 The Buddha did not teach metta; sitting in a pile of dukkha: the Mahasi method
    13:38 Delusion (unwise ignorance); pañña, samādhi, sila; right noble unification of mind with its supports and features (MN 117)
    22:04 Right investigation, right sati, right effort, right attitude: the satipatthana; the seven factors of enlightenment
    24:56 Unwholesome thoughts are hindrances: throw them out immediately; “I see you Mara!”
    29:13 Changing critical thoughts into nurturing thoughts; no place to go; nothing to do; skill development
    33:59 Gladdening the mind; experiencing the whole body; not the nose tip
    37:00 Skin in the game: right effort; things are not inherently dukkha
    42:01 Sati, investigation, and change circle around each other, leading to right attitude (samma sankappa)
    44:58 Intentionally nourishing; intentionally gladdening the mind - over and over again

    49 min
  • Set Things Down | Robert Co #27, Laurent | 7.12.22

    Laurent and Dhammarato talk about elation (piti), satisfaction (sukha), and attitude (sankappa) as mutually reinforcing skills to be developed. #hakunamatata #wisdom #confidence

    Hakuna Matata (The Lion King) — Finding sangha (no worries for the rest of your days)

    https://youtu.be/nbY_aP-alkw

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    00:00 Dealing with subtle doubts; seeing hindrances; wise ignorance

    07:28 Not needing an answer
    09:06 Setting things down; maintaining watchfulness: guarding the thoughts
    12:03 Changing attitude: samma sankappa as a skill; intentionally enjoying something: an exalted mind
    22:29 Once you are free from the hindrances… 
    25:48 The confidence to know you can do it again; being wealthy

    31 min
  • Hakuna Matata | The Sangha UK #64 | 7.10.22

    The Sangha discuss piti, sukha and the jhānas. #elation #satisfaction #jhana

    Hakuna Matata (The Lion King) — Finding sangha (no worries for the rest of your days)

    https://youtu.be/nbY_aP-alkw

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    00:00 Piti is a process; elation; imagine that you’ve been without something

    09:53 Being elated as an object of meditation: internally and externally; bliss; joy; rapture; spiritual peaks
    23:59 The Lion King: finding sangha; no worries for the rest of your days; control of piti and sukha
    32:18 The steps of ānāpānasati; being satisfied, comfortable, free from fear — the skill of elation; Artesian well example; kundalini
    43:02 Internally: finding elation in the senses
    47:53 Tying the metaphors together
    50:25 Finding seclusion
    51:35 First jhāna: bath powder, dough; one mind moment at a time

    56 min
  • A Bucketful of Praise | Tessa #5, Robert Ca | 7.10.22

    Tessa, Robert, and Dhammarato talk about breaking the habit of self-criticism and becoming friends with ourselves. #anxiety #criticism #nurturing 

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    00:00:00 Making friends with anxiety; false positives: thanks for the alert, thank you for coming by again

    00:08:48 Some hindrances we welcome, others we resist; pulling and pushing; status and disgrace; praise and criticism
    00:13:30 Going against your rules; praise and nourish yourself
    00:15:15 Shades of grey; moving in the right direction; making friends with ourselves
    00:22:42 Give yourself credit; praise yourself; criticism undermines the ability to change (samma sankappa)
    00:28:43 The habit of critical thoughts
    00:34:52 Just do it! Now; the noble eightfold path; praising other people
    00:42:55 A ripple, convoy effect, sangha; bioenergetics; somatic experiencing; grandiosity; defeatism
    00:49:49 Feeling afraid to take the reins; right noble effort to change; congratulations on seeing the cycle
    00:58:52 From winning and losing to being more harmonious
    01:02:00 From jealousy and competition to letting others win; don’t worry be happy; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha; never mind start again

    1 hr 13 min
  • Repetition and Confidence | The Sangha US #43 | 7.8.22

    The Sangha discuss a variety of topics around the themes of example, repetition, and confidence. #repetition #peergroup #confidence

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    00:00:00 Being around nobles; visit to a wat in British Columbia

    00:15:12 Shinzo Abe; outbreaks of shocking violence in Japan; other cultural/social problems
    00:33:06 The value of sangha; the “secret” of repetition
    00:35:33 Aesthetic practice in the Zen and Tibetan traditions compared to Theravada
    00:41:22 Thai Buddhism; Thai culture; uncomfortable austerities; wholesome austerities
    00:57:08 Practicing being alone and being together; needing to win an argument; diminishing yourself
    01:21:00 Heroic attitude of a recovered addict; confidence

    1 hr 31 min
  • Don’t Map the Dungeon | The Sangha US #62 | 7.7.22

    The Sangha discuss duty to the Dhamma, opportunities for sati, insights and satisfaction, and rules, limits, and opportunities in the context of supermundane right view. #nobleeightfoldpath #mindfulness #dukkha 

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    00:00:00 Two types of procrastination 

    00:04:00 Duty to the Dhamma; liberation from suffering
    00:06:34 Wisdom to acquire the necessities but not to cling to them; doing things for the sake of dukkha, dukkha-nirodha
    00:13:23 Jumping to conclusions; wisdom at the point of contact; sati and right effort
    00:24:11 The worldly winds are impersonal forces; eye of the hurricane 
    00:29:05 Buddhadāsa’s poem; what has changed in your real life? The virtuous peacock
    00:33:16 Jordan Peterson is miserable; don’t map the dungeon, just go for the exit
    00:37:02 Taking advantage of a cold to practice being in the moment
    00:46:40 What sort of insights and how often? Don’t cling to the insight; remaining in jhāna; this moment is beautiful
    00:54:06 We don’t have to wait for the conditions to change to be satisfied; vigilance about doubt
    01:00:02 You’re already here; just let go
    01:04:58 Philosophy is like bubblegum; the suttas and sati
    01:12:30 Dealing with bureaucracy; rules, limits, and opportunities; farming and wilding; wrong view, ordinary right view, supermundane right view

    1 hr 33 min
  • Immediate Change | Emil #1 | 7.7.22

    Emil and Dhammarato talk about the four features of practice that lead to right noble unification of mind. #goenka #mahasisayadaw #metta 

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    00:00 Goenka, Mahasi, Vimalaramsi; not liking metta; 16 stages of insight and noting hell

    06:51 Not liking ourselves; missing the noble eightfold path; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha immediately
    10:54 Changing dukkha to sukha; not choosing dissatisfaction;.start feeling safe
    15:51 Stop being critical of yourself so you can stop being critical of the world; right noble sati, looking, immediate change
    22:34 Looking at how we feel in the body: the footsteps of the crime scene
    25:53 The features of right noble unification of mind: right sati, right viewing, right effort, right attitude
    32:17 Do this instead of metta; starting to like yourself the way you are; criticise yourself or nurture yourself
    35:55 What should I do right now? Stop talking yourself into feeling bad and start talking yourself into feeling good
    40:37 Nurture yourself so you can nurture others
    44:25 Don’t worry about the jhānas; making friends

    49 min
  • Jumping with Joy | Cathal #2 | 7.7.22

    Cathal and Dhammarato talk about the foundations of good practice. #mahasisayadaw #vajrayana #darknightofthesoul 

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    00:00 Not taking right effort to make a change; many different kinds of thoughts; six-shooter senses

    07:52 Wanting things we don’t have; not knowing what we want
    11:52 Elation; jumping with joy; being successful; Mahasi noting
    18:26 Samādhi is not concentration but unification of mind; repetition; 
    25:17 Maps and right effort: 11 wasted steps out of 16; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha; not dukkha, dukkha, dukkha….
    28:04 The real Dark Night of the Soul; vajrayana: choiceless awareness; Mahasi: the Popeye method
    37:58 What to do in seclusion; playing with new toys; breathing really well; visualisations; change of attitude
    45:07 From loser to lion; playing and gladdening the mind
    50:14 Attitude and effort

    54 min
  • AN 8.6 Lokavipatti Sutta: The Failings of the World | Robert Co | 7.6.22

    Robert and Dhammarato analyse the eight wordly conditions discussed in the Dutiyalokadhammasutta, Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.6. #sutta #pali #buddhadhamma 

    Suttas mentioned in this discussion:

    https://suttacentral.net/an8.6

    https://suttacentral.net/mn20

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    00:00:00 An explanation of the second noble truth; four examples of liking; four of not liking

    00:09:51 It’s over when you decide it’s over
    00:13:07 Waking up and looking at what you’re doing (step 9 of ānāpānasati); greed for the object
    00:15:57 Translations take out the essential repetition; loss has arisen
    00:17:47 Gain and loss; the first of four pairs; caught in a cycle
    00:26:50 Status and disgrace; inconsistency 
    00:31:01 Censure and praise; pleasure and pain; stoics; welcoming and rebelling
    00:40:57 A well-instructed disciple of the nobles discerns things as they are and makes a change; this too shall pass
    00:53:31 The change is that the greed does not remain in the mind; neither welcome nor rebel ignorantly; change of lineage (MN 20)
    00:57:26 Friendship as a core teaching; wholesome scams; knowledge and wisdom; lack of delusion
    01:06:53 Being mindful of changing conditions; welcoming and rebelling are scattered
    01:12:08 The further shore is a mental change (saddhā); skepticism, doubt, sati; Bhagavad Gita; Ramayana in Thai culture; Lao Tzu
    01:25:22 Becoming ungoverned; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha

    1 hr 35 min

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