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Step away from daily demands and enter a supportive environment for tranquility and insight. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Registration is open for all levels for 10-days, 9-nights, near San Jose California with Cassandra Gearhart, Ph.D. and Adam Eurich. Set on 70 acres of rolling hills, vineyards, shaded walking and hiking paths, this retreat offers an ideal setting for […]
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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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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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
Delson Armstrong on the Sense of Self, Control, and Conceit Read More »
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
