Dhamma Talk Video 76: 'Waking Life' Review, Part II

Here’s an 61-min recorded video Dhamma Talk (160MB .mp4).

Topics:

• 5 hindrances, sense desire, ill-will, sloth-and-torpor, restlessness-and-worry, doubt, 6 sense bases, formless Jhana of the Base of Nothingness, philosophy, science, western culture, religion, Christianity, peacefulness, a meaningful, happy life, anatta, not-self, a mouse toodling around when no predator is threatening them, critical thinking, “Doubt became our Narrative”, paradox of free will, making an effort

Sutta References:

• AN 6.38 - “One’s Own Volition”

  (Since there is effectively Free Will, that’s good enough to make an effort)

Past Dhamma Talk References:

• Dhamma Talk Video 75: ‘Waking Life’ Review, Part I

• Dhamma Talk Audio 2: Anatta, Bahiya, and Kalakarama

Other References:

• “Similes of the Buddha” by Hellmuth Hecker

• “Waking Life” Movie

  • philosophy professor David Sosa - on Free Will

  • Otto Hofmann

  • Artist Steve Fitch - “Noise and Silence”

  • philosophy professor Louis Mackey

• Shotcut video editor

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

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