Reviewing The Six Sense Bases

This post reviews the Six Sense Bases: the eyes and seeing, the ears and hearing, the nose and smelling, the tongue and tasting, the sensations elsewhere in the body, along with the mind and consciousness.  During the talk, Peter Carlson focuses on the fetters, those manifestations of craving and clinging that the mind fabricates into the misconception that there is an enduring and autonomous self.  Investigation of and detachment from the fetters fosters the process of Awakening.

Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  Working Through the Fetters

The next series of talks will provide reviews of the Seven Awakening Factors

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Guided Five Aggregates Contemplation

This guided meditation provides a review of the characteristics of the Five Aggregates of Clinging, which is described in the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness.  It is intended to supplement the Dharma talk of the same evening that reviews this topic.

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