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- Pitiful Rules; Successful Reframing | The Sangha US #40 | 5.27.22
The Sangha discuss the apparent allure and function of self-pity and how we can give it up to find success in the breath. #anxiety #fear #selfpity
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►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/00:00:00 Self-pity is not a route to happiness; truth vs. pattern recognition; waking up to unwholesome thoughts
00:27:17 Rules and resistance to change; exaggeration; separating from unwholesome thoughts00:31:20 What’s the point; giving up; relinquishing to success; taking a deep breath00:52:21 Practice when you remember to do it; resistance and live scripts00:56:33 Success is immediately available; long-term goals and pity parties01:04:50 Changing focus; being distracted from distractions by the breath01:08:29 Positive reframing of situations; noticing the success; remember, remember, remember01:18:09 Just thoughts; using discrimination; suññata; meaninglessness01:24:57 Practice enjoying being alive by taking a deep breath; wisdom, not commiseration01:30:45 It’s not important01:33:13 Open Sangha Foundation; community and friendship1 hr 42 min - All the Taints (MN 2 Sabbāsavasutta) | Robert C | 5.26.22
Robert and Dhammarato discuss the meaning of the Sabbāsavasutta. #sutta #meditation #obstacles
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Sabbāsavasutta - All the Defilementshttps://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/sujato?layout=sidebyside&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin (Bhikkhu Sujato)https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false (Bhikkhu Bodhi)https://suttacentral.net/mn2/en/suddhaso?reference=none&highlight=false (Suddhāso Bhikkhu)Weekly Sangha calls, everyone is welcome.
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►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/00:00:00 Āsava (discharge from a sore) and kilesa (obstacle, fetter); wise attention (seeing) is the solution
00:05:59 Seven ways of giving up āsava: seeing, restraint, using, enduring, avoiding, dispelling, developing00:07:11 Ignorance skews our attention; the second noble truth; past and future; self00:37:23 The things right in front of you are the things fit for attention: this is dukkha, its origin, its cessation, the way leading to cessation00:44:40 Three fetters are abandoned through wise attention 1) personality view 2) doubt about what is and is not the path 3) doing what we’re told to do01:15:01 The sotāpan: path and fruit01:22:49 Restraining the senses: choosing the wholesome01:28:59 Using: the four requisites01:40:07 Enduring: good opportunities for practice; patience01:46:58 Avoiding dangerous things01:51:54 Dispelling, removing, investigation01:55:19 Developing sati; unremitting; the seven factors of enlightenment are the noble eightfold path; right noble unification of mind with its supports and features02:00:39 A doable path2 hr 13 min - Life is Sensational | Alex #31 | 5.25.22
Alex and Dhammarato discuss the differences between raw and processed experience and how the process of becoming helps us understand the jhānas. #jhana #paticcasamuppada #sensations
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►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/00:00 Enjoying walking meditation; experience and the self; nouns and verbs
11:52 Arising and passing away of the self-concept; dukkha and protecting the self16:02 Jhānas are not something for the self to attain; raw experience and processed experience19:23 A computer analogy; just receiving data; flickering sensations and fourth jhāna as a way of looking25:30 Paticcasamuppāda (dependent origination) consciousness and database matching; salāyatana, processing, thinking31:45 Sampling rate; always in the past; fast thinking - stopping and taking more data37:09 Answers as separation and confusion; happily ignorant; the nun’s habit42:11 Fourth jhāna; arūpa-jhānas: “mental” jhānas; magic; “infinite” is a bad translation; boundary-less45:39 “Infinite space” - the boundaries in space don’t exist; direct experience is not magical47:54 “Infinite consciousness” - consciousness has no boundary; a flood of data48:41 The experience of sensation fades away and becomes less solid50:00 “Neither perception nor non-perception” and “nothingness” - processing and dukkha54 min - It’s Not Important | The Sangha UK #52 | 5.22.22
The Sangha discuss the Open Sangha Foundation and why meditation is not important. #meditation #enlightenment #community
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►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/00:00:00 The Open Sangha Foundation: a universal gathering place for Western Buddhism
00:19:51 Taking money and business out of Western Buddhism; forming relationships; encouraging generosity00:26:06 Working with what’s already available; no-hierarchy friendship model; hierarchy of respect00:42:57 Preparing for cultural differences; using existing networks00:50:09 The Triple Gem; nobility rubs off; being in seclusion; light and heavy thoughts00:58:01 Sati (“waking up”) means “practice over and over again”; remember to investigate; paying attention to our senses01:03:44 Thinking about thinking clearly01:06:15 Let it go; relax; the job is done01:10:27 “Emptiness” - there’s nothing to it, no importance, no heaviness; re-arranging our priorities01:16:34 Be compassionate to yourself now; suffering is in demand; meditation is not important1 hr 26 min - Loving Life | Agnes #29 | 5.22.22
Agnes and Dhammarato discuss the joy of practice and of sharing happiness, as well as the ability to see dangers coming so we can avoid them and continue to enjoy the breath and to love life. #life #breathing #tranquility
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►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/00:00:00 The profound happiness of practice; fear as a primary motivator
00:10:36 Seeing dangers coming so we can avoid them in advance; importance and emptiness00:19:32 Danger and willingness to make a change; limits and boundaries00:21:35 The four requisites: housing, clothing, food, medical care - plus entertainment and transportation00:29:28 Life as the most important thing; what we can do without; breath is life itself00:37:10 Love of life is the gateway to the first jhāna; doubt and not needing to know00:44:28 The first thing to realise about the hindrances is that they are interrelated00:51:34 Tune into the rules you are following00:55:25 Being friends with people; gratitude for parents01:03:09 Happy, joyous, and free; boredom and restlessness1 hr 8 min - Dealing with the Fetters | The Sangha US #39 | 5.21.22
The Sangha discuss ways of approaching the fetters. #fetters #fear #competition
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►Podbean - https://dhammaratodhamma.podbean.com/00:00:00 The fetters; asava and kilesa; the first five fetters are physical; the second five mental
00:06:23 The one-two punch: knowledge and deliverance; mature, unremitting mindfulness; seven factors00:16:36 Paying wise attention to dukkha; knowledge and vision of what is and is not the path00:22:50 The real sotāpan; seeing things through the lens of the four noble truths (MN 48)00:26:59 Fetters four and five (greed and anger): take care of them one by one as they occur00:44:05 Dealing with fear; clinging; self-preservation; rūpa and arūpa; acceptance of what happens00:54:10 Conceit; competition; jealousy and envy01:13:55 Ignorance is the last fetter; knowing enough01:17:03 Helping others get past anger1 hr 23 min - Becoming Lighter: Nothing is Good Enough | Laurent, Scott | 5.20.22
Laurent, Scott, and Dhammarato talk about the skill of being in the present moment. #enlightenment #beinginthemoment #mindfulness
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►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY00:00:00 “Importance” in the Western mindset; weight; heaviness, coming out of being a victim
00:06:43 Satisfaction; it’s so easy; lighter; we remember to change our attitude about stuff00:11:23 The teaching of the Buddha is about subtraction; become lighter00:17:20 Boredom is agitation, restlessness; there’s nothing to do00:24:21 Imagining instead of looking at what’s real00:30:00 Being in the present moment and knowing you can handle anything (samma sankappa)00:33:53 Knowing enough; the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path, ānāpānasati00:37:53 Samādhi and piti: collecting together the things that are needed; applied and sustained wholesome thoughts00:42:07 A mind fit for work: superior investigation00:44:49 An analogy with reading; reading what’s real; first jhāna00:56:31 It’s so simple; nothing is good enough; there’s nothing to it1 hr 5 min - Learning from the Breath | The Sangha UK #51 | 5.19.22
The Sangha discuss the benefits of using the breath as an anchor in formal practice and daily life, the meaning of “insight”, and learning from lineaged teachers and other members of the community. #anapanasati #mindfulnessofbreathing #mindfulness
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►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY00:00:00 Relationship challenges integrated into practice; wholesomeness in the moment
00:14:50 What should be the object of awareness? The breath as an anchor00:24:02 The benefits of meditation; investigation and staying satisfied00:33:06 The importance of sati; mental stability and clarity; cultivating satisfaction and success00:37:09 Psychedelics and jhānas; not getting caught up in any particular experience00:50:04 Philosophical verbiage and practical experience00:53:47 Enjoying the silence00:55:18 What is insight? Connecting the dots; being quenched first; samatha and vipassanā together01:02:28 Meditation mode vs. being awake in daily life; blurred and blended01:08:47 Relaxing out of craving; the desire for liberation is a hindrance01:12:30 Dhammarato’s lineage; everyone is a teacher01:16:40 Self-help as an intellectual pursuit vs. mindfulness as a practice01:19:32 Throw out the categories; return home to this place of safety and satisfaction (MN 117, MN 118)01:35:05 Playing with the breath1 hr 42 min - Challenging Fast Thinking | Eric R #4 | 5.19.22
Eric and Dhammarato talk about how to challenge fast thinking with investigation and mindful slow thinking. #thinking #observation #contemplation
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►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY00:00:00 Maintaining the noble attitude out of seclusion; things we have to endure
00:22:03 Playing with endurance vs. making bad thought habits, being tense00:31:20 Thinking, fast and slow; changing fast thinking; observation; sati00:39:50 Instincts and the survival mechanism; reprogramming instantaneous behaviours00:50:22 The noble in training says “I can handle this”; competition and setting up the rules01:04:59 Using data from the past; stop and relax; the sewer: it’s inappropriate and it stinks01:18:10 Everything has to be investigated (inside and outside): slow thinking01:32:48 Fear is only useful for survival; joy rather than terror; choosing seclusion1 hr 41 min - Thinking, Fast and Slow | Aljoscha #3 | 5.19.22
Aljoscha and Dhammarato talk about developing the skill of seeing things arise and pass away and how we add emotions to perceptions in a way that hinders reorientation to the present moment. #thinking #emotions #beinginthemoment
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►Discord - https://discord.gg/epphTGY00:00:00 Things change at various frequencies; the sweet spot for seeing arising and passing away
00:07:42 The fourth tetrad of ānāpānasati; seeing how reality operates00:16:06 Knowing that things are worth looking at; being happily curious00:22:10 Slow and fast thinking; programming our intuitions; training our instincts00:32:08 How is my sati? Wholesome reflection; data without emotional baggage; salāyatana; sankhāra00:43:40 Seeing the process of adding emotions to perceptions; getting the mind fit for work; paticcasamuppāda00:51:26 Feeling the way we want to feel; the present moment is fine00:57:38 Looking at the way we frame things; bastardising our data; permission to be unproductive01:06:55 The judgmental mind; reorient into this present moment01:14:56 Doing shorter sessions; staying with the quality of skill development1 hr 23 min
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