Dhamma Talk Video 119: Why Buddhism?
Here’s a 61-min recorded video Dhamma Talk (128MB .mp4).
Topics:
- Western Culture, authority, tuning in to our hearts, meditation, finding some Spirituality in our lives, distinguishing between wants and needs, cutting through greed, hatred, and delusion; the story we live by, the rationales we make up to justify our decisions based on deeply-moving emotional experiences; having a trustworthy way to see through our own unwise reasoning
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary has published a 15-year memorial book. It’s one of those large coffee-table books that’s mostly pictures with some narrative text. The story of the early days of Sasanarakka is told through photos.
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Photos of Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary
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Commemorative art of Bhante Ariyadhamma, a very senior and famous monk from Sri Lanka
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Photos of various Buddhist Monk’s quarters in very remote forest locations in Sri Lanka
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Interview with Loius Theroux, by psychologist Jimmy Saville: on the tendency to define logic too narrowly, when we should include behaviour which is motivated by emotions - there is a logic to behaving towards where our emotions direct us to go. “Social Logic”, or tribal behaviour, or the fear of standing out too much, includes emotionally-motived logic, and let’s not underestimate that as having a strong influence
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From the book “Cultish”, by Amanda Montell:
“In a moment, they [a new group member] become filled with the sense that this group is their answer, that they can’t not come back. This tends to happen all at once, and it’s what makes a person “join”. This is called ‘conversion.’”
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