Dhamma Talk Video 16: Mindfulness, The Cook, Donkeys carrying Beans

Here’s a 52 min recorded video Dhamma Talk (277MB .mp4). Topics: Friendship, traditions, Theravada, Mahayana, ordination, Abhayagiri, Luang Por Pasanno, kamma, once-returners, arahants, ashrams, Hinduism, Soto Zen, Korean Zen, Tibetan

Suttas referenced:

• SN 47.8: “The Cook”
• MN 127 - “Anuruddhasutta”: Anuruddha. Rare space-element object of meditation
• SN 35.134 - “At Devadaha”. A rare six-sense-base object of meditation sutta.

Lists of Dhamma:

• The six elements:
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Fire
  • Water
  • Space
  • Consciousness

Other References:

• Other senses we have, besides just the 5 (or in Buddhism, 6) commonly-known senses: “How many senses do humans have?” - See “Proprioception”: “It combines with other senses to locate external objects relative to the body.”

Topics:

• meditation, mindfulness, awareness, sensory awareness, using space as an object of meditation, keeping our meditation practice fresh and interesting, sensitivity, simile of mindfulness involving a bowl filled right to the brim with water, simile of the cook, displacing discursive thoughts, saving energy, preserving emotional well-being, creating peace

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