Dhamma Talk Video 149: Not Rocket Science

Here’s a 39-min recorded Zoom video (162MB .mp4 - Tip: tap-and-hold to “Download link”, or right click to “Save Link As…“).

Topics:

• Theravada Buddhism, objects of meditation, suttas, the Early Buddhist texts; avoiding making the mistake of getting too caught up on details, when a broader view and taking care of the basics (like sila/morality and sensory restraint) can bring a lot of benefit to formal meditation

Sutta References:

• MN 10Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, also at DN 22 (with slight variation)

• MN 118Ānāpānassati Sutta

Other References:

• A humorous way of developing dispassion: “Data centers contain 90% crap data”

• Becoming “Super-Sonic”; a possible artist’s depiction of what you feel like after good Samadhi

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License:

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