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Dharma Talks
given at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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2021-12-12
Emptiness and Form: Fiction and the Dharma
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Ruth Ozeki and Francisca Cho
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| Buddhist traditions have sometimes characterized the dharma—the teachings of the Buddha—as beyond the realm of language and thought. If this is so, then why have so many Buddhists articulated their understanding of the dharma through literature, in poetry, discourses, plays, and fiction? Might the transformed modes of perception described in doctrinal texts be experienced through literature, through deeply engaging literary texts that blur boundaries between the imaginary, the representational, and the real? Join Ruth Ozeki, Zen Buddhist priest and novelist, and Francisca Cho, professor and one of the most prominent contemporary scholars on Buddhism and literature, as together, they explore emptiness and form, and the many ways that reading and writing literature can teach the dharma. |
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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Emptiness and Form: Fiction and the Dharma
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2021-08-15
It’s the Wholeness that Does the Work
31:41
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Mostly we operate from a fragment, excluding the whole of experience because it doesn’t fit our model of what should be. Return to wholeness, first in your own heart and mind, then extending it to society. Maintain a wide focus and receptivity, an open state where citta remains attuned, and you’ll find your inner security, having plugged into the life force as it manifests in this body. |
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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The Sacred Cosmos
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2021-08-14
Q&A 2
30:38
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Subject-object division of the senses; hardening in the face of trauma; greed, hatred and delusion; caring for others; broad vs. specific attention; harmonious relationships; experience of subjectivity; relationship of verbal formation (vacī saṇkhāra) to ānāpānasati. |
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
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The Sacred Cosmos
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