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Creative Samadhi - (November Solitary) 12 mentions

• of course maybe and if you're very much into the buddha and his teachings if that's important to
• enough space to work backwards where was where what was the buddha if again if you're into the buddha and what he said
• where what was the buddha if again if you're into the buddha and what he said where where was he pointing to where is
• if if one does look at kind of the totality of the buddha's teachings um and again what he does he what does he
• cultivation i said there's two wings cultivation the buddha talks about uh qualities that are crucial skillful or
• the these qualities that are cultivated with the buddha recommended culture they also uh very wonderfully they allow our
• so samadhi who said is one one of the qualities that the buddha emphasized cultivating
• but if we again use this principle where are we going when the buddha talks about samadhi what's he actually talking about
• so this is just to say this is what the buddha is talking about when he talks about somebody this is where we're going
• um it works well in the sense that it does evolve towards what the buddha was talking about when he said samadhi the
• the focus i mean the whole sense of so where are we going when the buddha talks about samadhi what's the directionality
• concentration not that because that's not if you read the buddha it's not really what he meant

Realizing the Nature of Mind - (IMS Forest Refuge) 12 mentions

• that group and there's a reason that they do that partly because the buddha was
• as they really are things as they truly are to quote the buddha and so the you know the constant
• it's also a little bit in what the buddha said but mostly in the commentaries
• practicing one has heard of the unconditioned the buddha talking about the unconditioned or the deathless
• a lot of love there the buddha makes a very marked point on one occasion i think it was to ananda
• this is one of the most fundamental insights of the buddha that if we it's easy to practice a long time
• fundamental and important insights of the buddha we might say what's the problem uh with
• usually mean space it's not easy one time the buddha went to a group of monks and he basically told them not to
• lovely as it was and it says the monks did not rejoice in the buddha's words yeah
• we build awareness and it's empty so the buddha in a lovely quote said um
• trick it doesn't actually exist as something your consciousness of buddha says is like a magician's trick like an
• to things all the time that's what the buddha called delusion the fundamental level of delusion

About Metta Practice - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 12 mentions

• more specific the buddha and other teachers through the ages
• have dis-ease discontent a whole range of that in our existence and the buddha is saying it's actually possible to
• and understanding it and the buddha found the more he teaches that the suffering that we have in life
• is there and the buddha this awakening is not a random grace
• it in different ways in the dharma in the buddha dharma teachings of the buddha there's actually
• the buddha dharma teachings of the buddha there's actually two two ways of looking and they're i
• one is what's sometimes called our buddha nature to see our buddha nature our fundamental
• for all of us and the buddha used that word a lot skill skill just like i learned to tie
• is and if you if you sort of get the collection of the buddha's original discourses he talks a lot more about the
• this is going back to the beginning is what the buddha means by awakening we suffer to paraphrase what i've
• patiently with intentionality and the buddha has a beautiful beautiful phrase with this in regards to the meta
• the possibility is enormousness this possibility to unveil our buddha nature and have that manifest in the world

On the Nature of Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 12 mentions

• so if i say if someone says if the buddha says the mind or awareness is empty that can seem very abstract can
• all of this stuff was actually around when the buddha was alive and uh there's a
• long and i want to read it to you and the buddha goes to a group of monks and he says let me tell you about the
• sutter is that most sutos end with the monks rejoicing in the buddha's words and this group of monks it says one of
• decision said the monks did not rejoice in this in the buddha's words they didn't want to hear that
• um who are pointing to that point at another suitor and say where the buddha also talks about the luminous mind in
• an object can't be awareness itself so the buddha in the pali canon again says consciousness when examined is
• none to form an idea of none that abides or sun none of the buddhas has ever seen sees or will see mind
• knowing it's a a process an activity and buddha says consciousness is knowing and it's knowing in terms of the six
• you know in a beautiful way in in in consciousness as well as the buddha says one doesn't relish
• for granted unquestioned way the mind works that's what the buddha means when he talks about delusion that we just
• inherently existent okay it's just the way the mind works until you're a buddha so you can pretty much safely assume

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Three Characteristics)... 12 mentions

• my aggregates to the divinity to a god or the gods or the divine or the buddha nature or whatever
• conceptual framework of dependent origination that the buddha came up with 12 links or something there's a 10 links
• um we can file all the words of what we find in the text and what the buddha is talking about and we file it and it
• um independent origination that buddha outlined into ways of looking one one
• and and the 12 links of japan origination are the buddha's longhand version of the second noble truth
• rough they're rafts they're part of the raft of what the buddha talked about their skillful means their relative
• and the idea was to keep them burning um the buddha came along and said you've got to put them out now we could say
• so um i'm pointing out elsewhere that uh the buddha so oftentimes they're given um they are referred to this
• um but sometimes the buddha um referred to them or when he was
• purpose is to deconstruct the this is what the buddha was getting at deconstruct
• appearances as divine which is how a buddha sees them karma buddha which means apparently to
• buddha sees them karma buddha which means apparently to see appearances as divine

Sensing Divinity - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 11 mentions

• of adriana buddhism even more than that in the pali county in in buddha dharma and in islam and in kabbalistic
• example of the pure land in buddhism or you may have heard about or buddha realms or the world as mandala or
• this around me right now and and myself can be experienced as a buddha realm so this
• different scents of the body so the buddha talks about in in the pali canon
• the fruits of the homeless life and the buddha talks about the met the skilled meditator creating a mind-made body
• separate from the location of a physical body so the buddha talks about that and some of you listening to this will
• surroundings seeing the environment now um as as a deva realm or a buddha realm as the palace of a buddha or a holy
• um as as a deva realm or a buddha realm as the palace of a buddha or a holy mandala sacred mandala and and
• feeling the world as dave around as as the palace of a buddha as the mandala whatever you what language you want to
• um one this this is a if you like realm or sphere ayatana as the buddha call it completely transcendent to all
• in other words this this is part of the perception of an awakened one a buddha or a bodhisattva who's had certain

Jhanas and Insight - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• to have an extended energy body and as the buddha says pervading and permeating and pervading centering so that's that's
• foolish inexperienced cow kind of thing that the buddha was talking about it will probably just slide over all over
• kinds of things it's just it's if you go back to the buddha's original image of or rather the image for the the soap uh
• turning it into kind of uh what was the word the buddha used snapchat yeah
• so i went back here he knows the story of bahia and the buddha monarchy surely you know the story if i
• in the scene just the scene what does it mean what's the buddha getting at
• the inspired utterance is actually at the end when the buddha describes the describes the uh
• actually samudaya and that word means um it's the same word that the buddha uses in relation to dependent arising
• they're kind of repeating i can't remember where where the buddha says um you know how do you how do you move from
• the final level of awakening and and the buddha says a practitioner should train themselves to pay attention to the
• um liberating and sort of coherent view and whether it's what the buddha meant and you know it's like i'm not

Talk Two: Understanding the Heart - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 11 mentions

• breadth of factors and qualities that the buddha encouraged us very strongly to cultivate so generosity and ethics
• happiness and to freedom all those qualities that the buddha encouraged us to cultivate lead us both to happiness
• about suffering etc and understanding suffering into the buddha place great emphasis on that all of those are
• cultivation this is as i said why the buddha went on and on about all these lists these boring buddhist lists it's
• because generosity the sealer in the texts they talk about the buddha talked a lot about what's called restraint of
• senses with hunger because that's what the buddha is talking about he's not talking about sort of living in a
• fullness of what the path is and the buddha never ever ever taught that way absolutely not
• absolutely not so the buddha uses language like path and path going towards the goal and uses
• i'm not saying that's not true but the buddha had another notion which was called dependent arising and that means
• necessarily fixed you know the buddha uh reflecting on his life he could have reflected uh my mum
• down so the buddha put his story down at times and picked up another lens to

Wise Responses to the Hindrances - (November Solitary) 11 mentions

• definitely and especially meditation too um classically the buddha uh drew attention to five in particular
• fourth one restlessness and worry the buddha translated the agitation of mind and
• general about attitude and about wisdom in relation to them the buddha 2 600 years ago whatever whatever however long
• years ago whatever whatever however long it was the buddha talks about these five hindrances and today we bump into them
• who we are or how we are that's really really important buddha says they don't disappear in fact until full awakening
• it locks difficulty into place and to use the buddha's word it feeds difficulty talks a lot about what feeds
• actually i think that's really not what the buddha meant by this word samadhi not not at all it's part of it's an
• the perceptions and sometimes the buddha talks about seeing the beautiful in what is not
• and finds them not beautiful and the buddha says can you can you actually
• fourth one is restlessness and worry sometimes when you read the buddha originally uh you get the sense that
• colored shaped so that's why the buddha the buddha says his primary instructions know that this

Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 11 mentions

• um said that the buddha's primary interest or his he was trying to
• or his he was trying to um persuade people that the buddha's primary interest was in addressing
• the pali canon mara um and mara actually means death and so the buddha was interested in amara which is also a word
• i is not deaf therefore it means life so what the buddha is really teaching is life live
• eros with uh life as opposed to death and the buddha was very interested in life and and uh the the sort of um
• this in the first uh three talks but um the buddha lists uh in in these uh you know great lists that he comes up
• is one of those so it's listed um and the buddha talks about it as a lot a lot
• again nepali canon the collection of the original buddha's teachings was how often words like striving and exertion
• and choose a path or if you say a version of buddha dharma that allows a great passion for realization for deep
• with that passion so there's a pain the buddha talked about the the uh remains word for it but the um let's say
• one of the immense strengths of the buddha's teaching and dharma teaching is that he kind of gives us a set of