by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | 2025 Deerhaven
This Buddhist concept describes how our subjective experience of self hood is created multiple times per second. Contemplating this provides a way to “deconstruct” the belief that there is an enduring/autonomous self, and this understanding supports the process of Awakening. Peter uses a different term than Dependent Origination–he calls it “Contingent Provisional Emergence” which provides a more contemporary psychological understanding regarding how the process operates.
Here are the notes prepared for this talk: Deerhaven 2025 Seven Awakening Factors
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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | 2025 Deerhaven
The 7 Awakening Factors represent those wholesome qualities of mind developed for cultivating the process of Awakening. During this talk, Peter explains how they operate and various ways to nurture their maturation.
Here are the notes prepared for this talk: Deerhaven 2025 Seven Awakening Factors
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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | 2025 Deerhaven
During this talk, Peter describes the development of Access Concentration, the quality of consciousness that is not affected by the Hindrances. This is cultivated through developing the procedure of aiming/sustaining attention intentionally to develop stability and tranquility in the mind, preparing for the practicing vipassana, insight into the conditioned nature of the mind.
Here are the notes prepared for this talk: Unifying A Dull And Distracted Mind
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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | 2025 Deerhaven
During this talk, Peter reviews the 5 Hindrances, which he describes as “energy dumps”–setting them aside frees up energy for further development of the 7 Awakening Factors, creating more opportunities to liberate the mind from dukkha, the distress and confusion resulting from the action of the Hindrances.
Here are the notes prepared for this talk: The Five Hindrances
The next evening’s discussion recording focuses on how the cultivation of concentration and tranquility overcomes distractedness, agitation and dullness in the mind, preparing for the cultivation of the Awakening Factors
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by Peter Carlson | Mar 26, 2025 | 2025 Deerhaven
During this talk, Peter refers to the main themes of the retreat a a refuge from the stress of these times and the importance of developing “diligence, mindfulness and the intention to clearly know how to awaken the mind from greed, hatred and delusion. He emphasizes that Awakening rather than Enlightenment is a better term to use for the ultimate goal of this way of living, in that we “wake up” from craving and clinging every time attention is brought back to breath awareness from the distress and confusion that is experienced as the result of the dominance created by one or more of the 5 Hindrances.
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