by Peter Carlson | Sep 15, 2023 | News
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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by Peter Carlson | Sep 15, 2023 | Listen to Dharma Talks
During this talk, Allie Vaknin describes the characteristics of the Five Aggregates of Clinging: Form, Feelings, Perceptions, Mind Conditioning Factors, all reflected in Consciousness.
This review is supplemented by a posted recording titled “Guided Five Aggregates Contemplation”, recorded just prior to this talk.
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by Peter Carlson | Sep 15, 2023 | News
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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by Peter Carlson | Jul 27, 2023 | Listen to Dharma Talks
During this talk, Lezlie Laws initially provides an overview of the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Mental Phenomena. She then describes how the Five Hindrances are recognized and effectively set aside. This talk also includes a period of time for questions to be discussed.
The focus for the next talk will be the next category of the Fourth Foundation, the Five Aggregates.
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by Peter Carlson | Jul 20, 2023 | Listen to Dharma Talks
This review, provided by April Koester, focuses on the Third Foundation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, which is intended to describe how the characteristics of various states of consciousness can affect our self-experiences. The mind operates like a filter, “coloring” perceptions through various states such as desire, aversion, dullness, agitation, etc. The goal of mindfulness and internal investigation is to understand the conditioning of the filtering process and, through Right Effort, create qualities of consciousness that provide an unfiltered view of the impermanent and non-self characteristics of subjective experience.
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