Dharma Talks
given at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
2017-04-01
Q&A Pt II
32:46
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Ajahn Sucitto
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1. How to practice last 3 of 8 precepts; recipient of one’s giving determines one’s merit – please explain; 2. how interpersonal aspect of energy affect/support one’s practice and meditation; 3. giving hand to hand vs. in disembodied ways (credit cards, etc.); 4. self consciousness around my giving’ the art of receiving has been neglected; 5. how to be with others who don’t know their own goodness |
BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening
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2017-04-01
Q&A Part I
48:53
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Caring for aging parents; celestial realm as metaphor or actuality; those who are spontaneously reborn; sacrifice; when I know I’m not observing precepts perfectly; meditation practice feels flat; advice for caregivers in medical field; breaking through feeling bleak about the world; subjective nature of the sacred |
BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening
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2017-04-01
Generating a Meaningful World
63:11
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Presentation of the multi-layered, holistic, vertical cosmos of the suttas as compared to our flat world that only extends geographically. One can move up and down the cosmos through one’s own actions – giving, ethics, renunciation, clearing the mind of the hindrances and developing deep meditation. One learns to make things sacred; sacred meaning everything is valued, has its place and is treated with respect. A study of the Kutadanta Sutta (D5.29) as an example of how the Buddha taught engagement and movement along this vertical/immaterial domain |
BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening
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