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Summerized Interview with Bhante Kusala In a recent video interview, Bhante answers questions about his new book: One Foot After Another, A Buddhist Monastic Walking Pilgrimage in Sicily. He describes him walking in a group of Buddhist monks in a pilgrimage across Sicily. First, he introduces the ancient practice of tudong, in which monastics travel on […]
In this Dharma talk, Delson Armstrong presents a detailed analysis of anatta (not-self) and conceit (māna) using key suttas from the Pāli Canon. First, he explains the difference between abandoning self-view and removing the subtle sense of “I am.” He shows how the five aggregates—form, feeling, perception, formations, and consciousness—become objects of identification. As a
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A Buddhist reflection on not-self and the experience of no controller revealing how kindness, sila, samadhi, and prajña arise on the path to freedom. Over and over in the sutras Buddha reviews how we base a sense of a self on 5 heaps (a digestible way of describing all knowable phenomena) and then points out why
