by Peter Carlson | Jan 31, 2013 | Listen to Dharma Talks
During this talk, Kitty explored how Buddhist practices help us relate to the inevitable uncertainty of life, sharing some of her experiences working with Hospice. She used material from Pema Chodron’s book “Comfortable With Uncertainty” as reference. She also included brief meditations on “open mind” and “bodhicitta mind”.
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by Peter Carlson | Jan 24, 2013 | Listen to Dharma Talks
Peter began a dialogue that is expected to last several months on the Four Noble Truths as we understand them in the context of 21st century neuroscience and psychology. He described the First Noble Truth as stress, and how stress manifests in our mind/body process. He emphasized that the Truths are to first be understood conceptually, then practiced, and finally mastered. The experience of stress is to be observed, not avoided, as it’s experienced in the body and the mind.
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by Peter Carlson | Jan 17, 2013 | Listen to Dharma Talks
During this dialogue, Tommy reflected back over the last two dhamma dialogue topics, relating them specifically to his practice of realizing them in his daily life. He shared his appreciation for how the teachings supported him during a recent family medical crisis, while also expressing gratitude for the medical personnel who attended to his son, who was quite ill. He also shared some of his “reminder notes” that he uses to reflect on the precepts, the remembrances, and other sayings that inspire his practice.
During next week’s dialogue, Peter will speak about the core practice concepts and principles in the Four Noble Truths discourse that remain relevant in our era.
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by Peter Carlson | Jan 10, 2013 | Listen to Dharma Talks
—In this dialogue, Judy presented two translations of the beginning of the Satipatthana Sutta, usually translated as The Four Foundation of Mindfulness, and then explained how important it is to practice mindfulness of breathing meditation in order to understand the first section, mindfulness of the body. During the talk, she invited the sangha to briefly practice the progressive practices of mindfulness of breathing as described in the Sutta. At the end of the evening, she stated her intention to continue the exploration of this primary teaching, relying to a great extent on the book Satipatthana-the Direct Path To Realization by Analayo, a German Buddhist monk.
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by Peter Carlson | Jan 3, 2013 | Listen to Dharma Talks
During this talk, Peter introduces a long-term project, to revisit the Four Noble Truths concept from the perspective of the 21st century. Much of the Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta (the first teaching of the Buddha after enlightenment) contains cultural add-ons that were accumulated as Buddhism competed with Brahmanism over the centuries before it was written down. Our current intention is to seek out the core concepts that are truly universal in application, supporting them with recent research that validates those concepts.
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