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Tuesday Practice Circle with Kristen Jones 2/10/26

The Five Illusionists: inlcudes Sutta Reading, Discussion, and Meditation —————————————————————————————————————————————————— This week’s Dharma talk, Kristen Jones explores how ordinary people become trapped by the belief in a solid and permanent self. Drawing on early Buddhist psychology, the talk explains how clinging to the five aggregates—body, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness—creates the sense of “me” […]

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Tuesday Practice Circle with Kristen Jones 2/3/26

Ways of Regarding Things, SN 22.47, Sutta Reading with Discussion and Meditation Group ———————————————————————————————————————————————— In this short discourse, the Buddha explains how a mistaken sense of “I” arises. Kirsten expailes how it is sustained by clinging to the five aggregates—form (body), feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness. First, an uninstructed person, unfamiliar with noble training

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Delson Armstrong on the Sense of Self, Control, and Conceit

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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