Talks With Scott Mandelker Podcast

Episode 0348 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 16 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of core Pali Buddhist teachings from the website: Puredhamma.net. Deeper analysis of the 3 Marks teaching & path of realization-dispassion-release. "Incessant stress" & the 3 types of dukkha. Comparisons with Ra Material & Western metaphysics. Image

Episode 0347 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 15 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of core Pali Buddhist teachings from Puredhamma.net. The 3 Marks & incessant distress, the Truth of Stress (Dukkha Sacca) & right view vs. attachment to distortions (asavas). 3 types of dukkha & 31 planes of existence. Comparisons with Ra Material &

Episode 0346 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 14 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of core Pali Buddhist teachings from Puredhamma.net. Right view & insight, panna/prajna (wisdom) and trans-conceptual direct experience of the 3 Marks & Dukkha Sacca. Incessant distress" & 3 forms of basic stress/dukkha in all experience. Comparisons with

Episode 0345 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 13 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of core Pali Buddhist teachings from Puredhamma.net. Right view & applications of 3 Marks teaching to the sense of self and limited view. Dhammapada: Magga Vagga chapter, v. 277-279 & associations between R5/Visuddhi and "path of purification." Comparisons

Episode 0344 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 12 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of core Pali Buddhist teachings from Puredhamma.net. Removal of 4 Asavas, breaking 10 Fetters & 4 Stages of Awakening. Craving for mental states, discernment of helpful/harmful patterns, karmic seeds' ripening. Comparisons with Ra Material & Western metaphysics.

Episode 0343 - Spirit, Soul, Mind (Click on the above link or here, for audio.) Comments on the distinctions between, and multiple meanings of the words "spirit, soul, mind." Law of One on the metaphysics of 7-dimensional selfhood, sense of personality, conscious agency vs. energy/form vehicles. Progressive dis-identification, detachment & spiritualization of mind & its functions.

Episode 0342 - Freedom and the Karmic Stream (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Causality, selfhood & decreased emotional charge -- freedom & the ever-changing karmic stream. Freedom from 3D time-bound mind-limitations in higher dimensions & life-review. Subjective acceptance vs. subjective knowing; faith and the R2-4-6 chakra line. Karma, pain and wanderers' soul

Episode 0341 - Fine Points for Meditators (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.)  Seeking mind-states vs. seeking concentration in Buddhist vipassana meditation; insight, thought & the 8 jhanas. Practice, material desires & the purification of intention; the experience and range of motivation (curiosity, pain, freedom). Non-conceptual self-inquiry (Sanskrit:

Episode 0340 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 11 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of karmic law, from Puredhamma.net. The cycle of cause-effect: the critical role of conditions in consequences. The weighting & relative intensity of causes & harmful mind-distortions. Analysis of 'mental defilements,' distorted mental flow (Asavas),

Episode 0339 - Views/Action-Path in Buddha Dhamma, part 10 (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Extended analysis of karmic law, from Puredhamma.net. Proper weighting of karmic action, moral behavior & future consequences. The proportionality & relative intensity of harmful mind-distortions with resultant karmic-returning catalyst. Levels of spiritual evolvement vs. essential