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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by Peter Carlson | Jan 1, 2013 | Listen to Dharma Talks
In this talk, Peter reviews the value of developing the 7 Awakening Factors through tranquility practice. This process allows deeply conditioned attachments to self-states and how a more dispassionate view of old relationship dynamics supports increasing equanimity.
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by Peter Carlson | Aug 23, 2012 | Listen to Dharma Talks
This is the last dhamma dialogue that Peter will deliver before his 3 month retreat at the Forest Refuge in Massachusetts begins on September 1. The talk reviews the history and significant teachers he sat retreats with over the last 30 years, and Peter speculates about the approach he will take during the retreat: several weeks of intensive concentration practices, then vipassana practice, including the attempt to integrate insights gained from vipassana to the practice of lojong, the Tibetan training points. With no concrete goal in mind, Peter wants to be more present in relationships at the end of the retreat. During his absence, more senior students will provide the dhamma dialogues until he returns during the first week of December.
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