Dhamma Talk Video 112: Needs vs. Wants

Here’s a 47-min recorded video Dhamma Talk (90MB .mp4).

Topics:

• Mindfulness, meditation, priorities, coming out of strong views, integrating mindfulness into our lives, papanca, papañca, proliferation, trying to run the world, roles and responsibilities, sensationalism, bots, political agendas, false paths, agati, fear, anger, peace of heart, protecting our hearts, protecting our cittas, sustained effort, meditation becomes fun

Past Dhamma Talk References:

• AN 4.115, and AN 2.104-107 from my Dhamma Talk called “Manly Strength”, links are there to original suttas.

Other References:

• Famous saying of Confucius: “Petty Man gets stuck on the details; Great man sees the Big Picture”

• Jordan Peterson’s Rule 6: “Set Your House In Perfect Order Before You Criticize The World”:

“If you cannot bring peace to your own household, how dare you try to rule a city”

• “If you don’t take care of your own business, then others will take care of it for you, poorly”

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