Kalyana Mitta Video 3: Ajahn Puṇṇadhammo

Here’s a 62 min recorded video Dhamma-related conversation (267MB .mp4).

Topics:

• Ajahn Puṇṇadhammo, Ajahn Punnadhammo, devas, meditation, jhanas, chakras, consciousness, perspective, senses, planes of existence, cosmology, mythology, beliefs, religion, medieval perspective, art, sensuality, transcendence, Brahma, samsara, Sakka, Suyama, 3 Sanshi of Taoism, cunning, skepticism, evolutionary success

Dhamma topics:

• devanussati, meditation on the Devas, 5 faculties, especially faith, and balancing it with wisdom, saddha, Theravada Buddhist Cosmology in the Suttas, Commentaries, Vissudhimagga

References:

• “Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there”, by Donald Hoffman, transcript
• “Do We See Reality as it is?”, by Donald Hoffman
• “THE BUDDHIST COSMOS: A Comprehensive Survey of the Early Buddhist Worldview; according to Theravāda and Sarvsātivāda sources”, by Punnadhammo Mahāthero”
• The 3 Sanshi, or 3 Corpses of Taoism

License:

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Digital Signing and Checksum (of the .mp4 video file above):

• GnuPG signature: 03_Ajahn_Punnadhammo_2020-08-20.mp4.sig; search for GnuPG pubkey 0x28e15963710c0624 here.
• SHA256sum: 426340c7944af9a6e678e0a9b26dd9a5cc83b56581874b3c2b62026ad0b1f075