A Practical Teaching on the Mūlapariyāya Sutta (MN 3) with Delson Armstrong —————————————————————————————————————— In this talk, Delson Armstrong examines how the mind creates suffering through perception and identification. The Buddha describes how ordinary people conceive experience as “mine,” “I am,” or “my self.” As a result, craving and attachment arise. However, a trained meditator learns […]
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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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
