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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Wise View
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Wise View is fundamental to every thing we do in the Dharma. Having a direction establishes a context for all dharma activities. Without it we flounder and move in the direction of our conditioning…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Generosity
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Why is generosity a fundamental dharma issue? The Dharma opens us beyond our self-limitations, and generosity is the essential direction of that opening. There is a balance between staying within…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Sila
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We usually approach ethical conduct (sila) from either righteousness (morality) or idealism (I must never harm any living thing!), but not often from stability and unification of heart. From the…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Staying Within Yourself
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In the West we have little preparation for Dharma practice because our lives have not been tuned to staying within ourselves. We have been taught to look outside for approval and to compare ourselves…
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An exploration of the Bahiya Sutta and the distance we create from bare experience through our resistance and sense of self.
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Thinking, Clinging and Craving
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Cheryl Slean discusses the common misapprehension about meditation that peace can somehow be found by stopping thinking. The Buddha taught that the processes of mind and body are not the cause of…
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Guest teacher Steve Armstrong offers a talk about the Buddha in nature.
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Bonnie Duran discusses the hindrances and other challenges to practice on and off the cushion. Mindfulness holds the hindrances between suppression and indulgence, allowing the purification of mental…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Samadhi
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The Buddha once said that his teaching directed us toward three principles: sila (ethical conduct), panna (wisdom), and samadhi (firmness of mind). Samadhi is the fundamental principle of a steady…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Bare Attention
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Any review of the fundamentals must go squarely through bare attention. Bare attention is the essence of our practice, and the single tool that nourishes our wisdom and understanding all along the…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Moving Toward the Struggle
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Why did the Buddha say he only taught suffering and the end of suffering? If this is the core of what he taught, how diligently do we practice it? Do our practices attempt to understand the nature…
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Fundamentals of the Dharma: Death and Denial
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In this series we open an exploration of a few fundamental dharma principles. Students will already have some familiarity with many of these topics, and some may seem trivial. But the reality is there…
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