This is a live stream and recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on March 24,  2018. The stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This  Saturday's class is the week ten class of our 2018 12-week Dhamma study based on my book The Truth Of Happiness. Our study this week is on Five Clinging Aggregates, and understanding not-self.  My talk will be on the Bhava Sutta. In this sutta, the Buddha teaches the ongoing personalization of suffering in relation to the Five Aggregates and Karma.

“In this way karma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of human beings rooted in ignorance and bound by craving is established in wrong view. Established in wrong view, (ignorance) renewed becoming is produced.” (Bhava Sutta)

A related article is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-explained-the-loka-bhava-and-mula-suttas/

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with Metta intentional meditation.

An audio only version of this video is available at my podcast archive: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-podcast/

A video of our classes including a beginning Shamatha-Vipassana meditation is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

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Thank You. Peace.