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Sila and Soul (Part 1) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 26 mentions

• soulmaking dharma and imaginal practice and ethics and buddha dharma and the wider range of buddha dharma in its
• and ethics and buddha dharma and the wider range of buddha dharma in its relationship with ethics and then even
• culture or wider cultural inheritance around morality and buddha dharma just just a few brief things there
• soup in the mix by contrast to a certain extent buddha dharma and if you know buddha especially
• by contrast to a certain extent buddha dharma and if you know buddha especially from insight meditation tradition but
• from insight meditation tradition but really right from the start buddha framed his ethical teaching more in
• white true but generally speaking most people who come to buddha dharma if they've had a painful history with
• and relief from there in the in the buddha dharma's presentation of it as we
• also from the beginning the buddha coupled with the fact that western
• coupled with the fact that western buddha dharma a lot of western buddha dharmacs is certainly the inside
• the approach to ethics and the way it's presented and laid out in the buddha dharma as they come to it is more
• so it's not that simple because if you take on board the buddha's teachings of rebirth and karma then if you do
• within that but right in the beginning the buddha uh the intention of the sealer of ethical
• even that in the context of um the buddha's threefold training the sila has this thrust towards enabling a
• come back to perhaps the virtues etc um some people within the buddha damas still are drawn to or feel compelled to
• to some degree or other and then we also have this inheritance from the buddha dam in this other way of thinking
• our psyche in our minds the mixture of what we've received from buddha dharma and the abrahamic religions
• the abrahamic religions and modern and buddha dharma and then the emphasis also in modern western buddha diamond on uh
• buddha dharma and then the emphasis also in modern western buddha diamond on uh letting go of self-judgment they're
• and at the same time what you've got in some maybe most dharma circles buddha dinosaurs this is a kind of
• this out before lastly what you have is an inheritance uh in the buddha dharma certainly in theravadin buddha dharma
• an inheritance uh in the buddha dharma certainly in theravadin buddha dharma and the insight meditation tradition
• over us because the buddha statues are there the stories are there the tone is there the
• this has consequences across the globe and we can no longer as did the buddha in his time think of ethics as just
• will if if the ethics aren't there it's one of the reasons the buddha said um
• being being a little bit limited um the buddha not so much quite given to equanimity and inwardness

Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned - (Meditation on Emptiness) 25 mentions

• tradition it was used in the in the pali canon by the buddha and certainly later in mayana it actually gets used in
• etc uh who say the buddha what has been mistranslated and misrepresented by any
• the world the world of the senses and he says the buddha you you the buddha have said that there is no
• and he says the buddha you you the buddha have said that there is no liberation
• really really interested in so we're talking about something uh the buddha or some people seem to be saying buddhist
• important to realize it and some people say there is not that the buddha has no interest in anything transcendent at all
• mean yeah so listen to this from the buddha nikaya 35
• subject object and time what the buddha is pointing to is when that tripod is beginning to see the
• moment it's a long way from that to what the buddha's talking about about this whole tripod fading ceasing cessation
• and there's no no fading of that we're not talking about what the buddha is getting at with this you know some
• something else now when the buddha says this dimension should be known so very easily a
• so we talk about dependent origination and and the buddha always when he talks about depend origination talks about
• actually get not built here's another one from the buddha um and partly doing this just because of
• filled the whole talk with just quotes from the buddha that refer to this um i feel it's a little misrepresent
• state no then comes the answer from the monks and then the buddha continues with the total non-existence of fabrications
• there's a double meaning in in pali when the buddha originally used the words but it's actually very good in english to
• very deep letting go it's this relinquishment he's the buddha's words from non-relishing
• things one is for the transcendent it's not by even at the time of the buddha it was not the only uh way of looking at
• and i don't know where this is quotes from palikana somewhere the buddha says uh about this unfabricator about this
• passages in the pali canon where the buddha does talk in positive terms about this
• and it says on the western wall and then the buddha says and if there is no western wall
• on the ground and the buddha says and if there is no ground
• do you get the image this does not land and the buddha says in the same way when there is no craving no craving for
• summer and the section on the unconditioned where the buddha actually gives synonyms for nibana and some of
• uh buddha from nepali canon uh the diganic higher uh number 11.

The Ontology of the Soul, and the Soul of Ontology ( ... inevitably) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 25 mentions

• was something coin actually by the buddha term coined by the buddha in the kitchen which i
• coin actually by the buddha term coined by the buddha in the kitchen which i mentioned the other day in the pali
• right here and he says right view is the buddha's middle way which falls between the two extreme views
• are much more familiar with of course is the buddha defined in the middle way as a middle way between sensual indulgence
• meaning of middle way and that's in the pali canon that the buddha used and that second meaning became the primary
• couple of sentences exchange um in the pali canon between the buddha and kachina where the buddha uses the
• um in the pali canon between the buddha and kachina where the buddha uses the term middle way
• emptiness middleware the middle way of emptiness that the buddha was talking about in the gardenia others picked up
• other hand the two extreme views that the buddha pointed to and again the mayana picks up on a lot
• divinity a providential dharma kaya or buddha nature that makes appear to us images
• entertain that kind of ontology as well as an ontology of a buddha nature and damakaya and divinity that does no such
• we can entertain an ontology conceptual frame there's no such thing as buddha nature or divinity
• point out that from a strictly sort of narrow buddha dharma point of view all we need to know about ontology for
• and to see those ways so that's from a strictly buddha dharma point of view that's actually all we
• and rebuff certain objections and critiques well that's not buddha dharma if you're talking about soul didn't the
• if you're talking about soul didn't the buddha say that's not something real that's just metaphysical speculation any
• some people in in the dharma some expositions of buddha dharma some explanations of buddha dharma or of
• expositions of buddha dharma some explanations of buddha dharma or of simply of kind of uh mindfulness
• now uh in terms of western philosophy i think also in terms of buddha dharma um certainly in terms of modern science
• um it's not relevant it's not what the buddha taught it's not relevant to life etc etc
• similar conclusions from western philosophies and certainly from buddha dharma and emptiness and the ways of
• i think it's one of the six armies the buddha religious certain one of the ten primaries of mahayana
• just look at in terms of classical buddha dharma teachings that's actually involved rather than just simplifying it
• the attributes of buddha nature or the attributes of divinity or the attributes
• divinity in other words here you have buddha nature you have god or you have the ultimate one and just as in

'The Holy Life' (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 25 mentions

• um in the pali canon uh the buddha very clearly and very often
• so for example in the samyutinikaya the buddha says that sphere or that dimension we could
• transcended and this the buddha calls the end of the world
• transcends it this is central to the buddha's project of awakening and ending dukkha without reaching the end of the
• so in the magic monica middle length discourses the buddha says there is the inferior there is the superior and
• sensation and uh if we continue the buddha says this is a quite a famous quote from uh
• also from a different different text in there samuel to nakaya uh the buddha says so this is you know again he's
• demolish it so what is the buddha saying in relationship to life because life what
• it should be clear also by all this that the buddha is not just talking about a state of concentration as i said it's
• um the buddha in another passage refers to this transcendent or unfabricated mostly
• um another set of discourses from the pali canon and the buddha says there is that sphere there is that dimension
• for this unfabricated and the buddha's emphasis on it and also our experiential
• talked about much earlier but in a way the buddha is mostly saying and in other passages we're all
• um in um in buddha dharma or rather in some buddha let's say um and certainly
• in buddha dharma or rather in some buddha let's say um and certainly they're in the pali canon in
• so there is in these different traditions and in the pali canon buddha there is we could say there's this
• yearning there's this longing and as a point out the buddha was extreme in his dedication for uh wanting to
• could conceive of the genres the eight genres that the buddha or the pali cannon points to as as it's um
• so the holy life some of you will know is again is something that the buddha talks about a lot and refers to a lot in
• transcendent thrust that's there um so the buddha talks about escaping from this world and the genres actually
• and and then in in talking about vadna two the buddha makes a distinction between worldly failure vadna and
• really try and make the case that the the buddha the pali canon absolutely wasn't uh didn't have a transcendent
• there that insistence by some that the buddha of the pali canon did not have a transcendent thrust
• within there that's not actually um what the buddha was pointing to and again that can be maybe for some
• religions before the first millennium bc so that's before the time of the buddha uh that um that had the an absence of

The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 24 mentions

• so there's a there's a passage in the pali canon where the buddha and ananda are sort of hanging out and
• um and another remember he was the buddha's attendant so he probably heard let's
• probably let's estimate maybe 90 percent of the buddha's teachings something like that
• and he wasn't he wasn't a thicker after the buddha died he became an arrow hunt so he wasn't someone incapable
• and they're hanging out one day and he says and the buddha says something about penetrizing and ananda says it's so
• this dependent rising is just as clear as clear could be and the buddha turns to him said don't say that ananda don't
• there are lots of text and where the buddha describes unfabricated at least into my reading of
• hunt for right now but um there are texts where the buddha is describing um a state where all perception has
• there's only one place in the pali canon where the buddha talks about such a thing it's not true there are many many
• gone beyond the pale um the buddha sometimes talks in positive language here there is as i
• the point i want to make though is the buddha's talking about it in sort of positive language it's a it's a
• about it will be will be true and the buddha says we're all phenomena are removed where there's this complete
• so they're more often than not the buddha talks about it in negative language it's the cessation of this it's
• openings open how as meditators the buddha says it's a fruit of gnosis gnosis g-n-o-s-i-s which
• possibilities and take them from the buddha um instead of
• so here it it uh emphasizes um what is fabricated as impermanent the buddha talks about three kinds of dukkha
• um let's find that so the buddha says i i tell you the ending of the effluent
• say to me oh well the only place the buddha really talks about emptiness in the pali canon is two sutters with
• stuff in the pali canon and different ways the buddha uses the word empty and so here's one they're they're a void
• here it says who is this talking this is the buddha and um he
• not quite perceiving anything again i've said that only a buddha can do this in the realm of neither perception or
• passage are you okay with this here the buddha is talking about sorry puta one of his chief disciples and says
• but it's really really possible the buddha said um like i'm paraphrasing he probably
• word there's there's actually when the buddha uses it he means something much more subtle i think but anyway we'll

"A Body at Peace with Itself" - (November Solitary) 24 mentions

• one of the favorite ways the buddha had of speaking about it was to develop some degree of calmness
• certain themes when the buddha talks about they talks about many many themes to explore
• why why is the buddha saying pay particular attention to that part of it is because
• relationship with the body and the buddha talks a lot about this the first the first piece of it is he
• don't see body as body so right off the bat the buddha saying can we move into a mode of awareness mindfulness that sees
• anyway buddha outlines many many uh possibilities possible meditations for
• sense is at the center of that practice so the buddha says sensitive to the whole body of course we use the phrases
• to stay sensitive to the body sense and buddhists in in the buddha's words sensitive to the whole body
• and similarly with the breath learning learning to do this the buddha says sensitive the whole body the next thing
• bear attention is actually not a phrase not a concept that the buddha ever used there's no place in his shelf full of
• and over there's a tremendous amount mayor the buddha said if you understand perception completely
• extremely deep it's easy to overlook it short time after the buddha died and his one of his chief disciples sarah
• putra had died a little while before the buddha and then ananda the buddha's cousin and attendant who had been with
• cousin and attendant who had been with the buddha for years decade looking after him and being right at his side
• second one of the three characteristics of buddha said contemplate this contemplate it look at it see it
• it's not me not mine it's anata the buddhist buddha said so how is it how is it not so it's not
• really it's not gonna work very well the buddha has this there's this word in pali
• real perception of the body buddha once said what is this body that we experience and he said
• existence to this from from the buddha suppose that a large glob of foam
• form another beautiful quote from the buddha in a similar vein
• cannot this body is as the buddha said right from the beginning subject to aging sickness and
• more freedom there is so the buddha said when he talks at mindfulness of body he says
• the rest of it so that's there and the buddha's saying right from the first that's there in a
• i think was it christina who said in the opening talk the buddha the dharma has one taste just as the

The Nature of Enchantment - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 24 mentions

• which the buddha didn't call it that
• let's again start by checking out what the buddha says which is
• actually discern what has happened as the buddha said what's present now and what is absent so someone just says
• in all kinds of ways so what's going on here and the buddha doesn't help that much does he there
• where um the bulk of it is the buddha is talking about inside ways of looking
• the dimension of nothingness so that's one way the buddha describes um
• of looking that opens up this realm uh then again the buddha says the disciple of the noble ones having gone
• um the time of the buddha and the different religious views that were around in the
• around it's very possible and in fact in the buddha's biographical story there's just this that that
• that's for later and then again the buddha says um
• corresponds to the first of the of the buddha's three inside ways of looking they're dukkha but it has to be that
• perceptions are not peaceful as the buddha says but that doesn't mean there's aversion to them okay so it's a
• working from the inside ways of looking as the buddha described as we went through very briefly there and is in
• deep nothingness to me it should lead to the insights that the buddha is talking about emptiness of phenomenal self etc
• in in the mahayana teachings it's said that only a buddha not an arahunt not not a fully in line person in the
• not not a fully in line person in the terravan team only a buddha a complete buddha
• terravan team only a buddha a complete buddha can both fully uh view something or
• it will fade only a buddha can fully view something as empty and still perceive it
• you're mimicking you're deliberately mimicking the mind of a buddha and that capacity of a buddha to do just that
• mimicking the mind of a buddha and that capacity of a buddha to do just that to to
• is is just this uh pretend mimicking of being a buddha and if you do that enough that's one way to become a buddha is you
• being a buddha and if you do that enough that's one way to become a buddha is you just imitate a buddha and then you
• that's one way to become a buddha is you just imitate a buddha and then you become a buddha that's all mahayana and
• just imitate a buddha and then you become a buddha that's all mahayana and vadriana teaching i'm just mentioning it

PS - Playing in the In-Betweens - (Practising the Jhānas) 24 mentions

• so there's a there's a passage in the pali canon where the buddha and ananda are sort of hanging out and
• um and another remember he was the buddha's attendant so he probably heard let's
• probably let's estimate maybe 90 percent of the buddha's teachings something like that
• and he wasn't he wasn't a thicker after the buddha died he became an arrow hunt so he wasn't someone incapable
• and they're hanging out one day and he says and the buddha says something about penetrizing and ananda says it's so
• this dependent rising is just as clear as clear could be and the buddha turns to him said don't say that ananda don't
• there are lots of text and where the buddha describes unfabricated at least into my reading of
• hunt for right now but um there are texts where the buddha is describing um a state where all perception has
• there's only one place in the pali canon where the buddha talks about such a thing it's not true there are many many
• gone beyond the pale um the buddha sometimes talks in positive language here there is as i
• the point i want to make though is the buddha's talking about it in sort of positive language it's a it's a
• about it will be will be true and the buddha says we're all phenomena are removed where there's this complete
• so they're more often than not the buddha talks about it in negative language it's the cessation of this it's
• openings open how as meditators the buddha says it's a fruit of gnosis gnosis g-n-o-s-i-s which
• possibilities and take them from the buddha um instead of
• so here it it uh emphasizes um what is fabricated as impermanent the buddha talks about three kinds of dukkha
• um let's find that so the buddha says i i tell you the ending of the effluent
• say to me oh well the only place the buddha really talks about emptiness in the pali canon is two sutters with
• stuff in the pali canon and different ways the buddha uses the word empty and so here's one they're they're a void
• here it says who is this talking this is the buddha and um he
• not quite perceiving anything again i've said that only a buddha can do this in the realm of neither perception or
• passage are you okay with this here the buddha is talking about sorry puta one of his chief disciples and says
• but it's really really possible the buddha said um like i'm paraphrasing he probably
• word there's there's actually when the buddha uses it he means something much more subtle i think but anyway we'll

The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space) - (Practising the Jhānas) 24 mentions

• today is uh the fifth genre actually the buddha never calls it the fifth genre to my
• um there let's see what the buddha just to say about that
• himself firmly in it that's all the buddha says about it actually no there's a bit more in other
• it develop it pursue it establish it um so that's pretty much all the buddha says about that the descriptions get
• journals and even as i said the buddha doesn't actually use the word john is he uses
• ignored um oftentimes in modern secular buddha dharma of course because it's just kind of
• delight in this very um absence of resistance that the buddha is talking about the very sense of just
• find them but there are sutures where where the buddha talks about if i remember it's it's almost like okay
• or and and this one matches more of the buddha's descriptions if i sense the body space what did the buddha say about
• buddha's descriptions if i sense the body space what did the buddha say about the fourth genre the analogy was
• there's also in this state um there's also what the buddha calls a sense of release i meant to look at the
• parlier i can't remember but um so the buddha talks about a release now all genres are releases
• yeah it's from the visury maga the buddha never said that in the in the pali canon the buddha says meta can take
• buddha never said that in the in the pali canon the buddha says meta can take you to the fourth uh and fifth genres
• lot of stuff in there gets unquestioned for some reason even though the buddha is saying something quite different
• but actually it's very clear what the buddha meant by compassion is a happy state there's a state where there's a
• the most significant one i think the one that buddha puts more influence on that's still important that space thing
• just that little bit what what i read to you at the beginning that the buddha said which is really two or three lines
• practices is space is infinite it's rather that what the buddha teaches that all sensuality and all sense
• looking not if the buddha says all all sense objects are in permanent it's like yeah
• but the most significant one here of the three that the buddha gives is not the dukkha not the impermanence but the it's
• we'll come back to this basically the buddha says this is worthless this is duca this is mara snare this is a cancer
• looking that i just described um in the buddha offered there uh there will be in time this this
• enormous and even within buddha dharma and even people who come on retreats

Sila and Soul (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 23 mentions

• spiritual development are psychotherapy and buddha dharma now of course they're two extremely
• about psychotherapy nor are we talking about one thing and we talk about buddha dharma there's many different kinds
• either of these things is one thing psychotherapy or buddha dharma certainly many different kinds and of course
• people who are part of a certain sub-tradition of buddha dhana or a certain kind of psychotherapy there'll
• perspectives so if we turn now to dharma to buddha dharma and that wider tradition
• again in to to speedy and superficial way onto buddha dam and different kinds of buddha dharma
• speedy and superficial way onto buddha dam and different kinds of buddha dharma for example
• in our day and age we look at um sort of traditional teravard and buddha dharma
• very traditional um context to teravan and buddha buddha dharma where the aim is really to get
• actually nowadays that kind of light in the context of buddha dharma that kind of light's actually quite
• and kindness and softness particularly nowadays in western buddha down the some western would have particularly inside
• but i read a passage the other day a couple of passages where the buddha is really quite judgmental
• enormous generosity and compassion coming out of the buddha and at times he sounds or appears extremely judgmental
• and sometimes again again we're just talking about buddha dharma now but sometimes what can happen is certain
• but there's the image of tibetan history tibetan buddha dharma history and all the color and the richness of that and
• um what traditional buddha and again i'm mostly thinking of insight meditation
• moments and in let's say traditional insight meditation or buddha dhana there's there
• um the peaceful detached buddha or this is what an awakening person this is the flavor the ethos of
• ethos and therefore the ethics of and of buddha dharma let's say that has no place
• of let's say just pluto dharma the subculture of buddha dharma and how do we even within insight
• action or or non-action within buddha dharma um there may be limitations coming from
• talking about insight meditation tradition right now mostly our buddha dharma and ways that with all the gifts
• is an instrument of the divine care and as such the divine the buddha nature needs me to feel this grief