Here’s an 58-min recorded video Dhamma Talk (124MB .mp4).

Topics:

  • syncretism, consilience, congruence, dieties, angels, devas, neighbours, psychic power, meditation, debate, discussion, fallacies, making a distinction, categorical agreement, metta, Brahmaviharas, the Golden Rule, silence, strategy, spirituality, seeking, picking and choosing, getting into finer details, Nibbana, center of the religion


Sutta References:

  • MN 99 - “With Subha”:

    “Student, I speak about this after making an analysis; I do not speak about this one-sidedly. I do not praise the wrong way of practice on the part either of a householder or one gone forth; for whether it be a householder or one gone forth, one who has entered on the wrong way of practice, by reason of his wrong way of practice, is not accomplishing the true way, the Dhamma that is wholesome. I praise the right way of practice on the part either of a householder or one gone forth; for whether it be a householder or one gone forth, one who has entered on the right way of practice, by reason of his right way of practice, is accomplishing the true way, the Dhamma that is wholesome.”

  • AN 3.67 - “Topics of Discussion” (Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s translation):

    “But if this person is asked a question that should be answered categorically and he answers it categorically; if he is asked a question that should be answered after making a distinction and he answers it after making a distinction; if he is asked a question that should be answered with a counter-question and he answers it with a counter-question; if he is asked a question that should be set aside and he sets it aside, in such a case this person is fit to talk.”

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