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A Rite of Angels - (Roots into the Ground of Soul) 23 mentions

• these four candles buddha dharma sangha buddha dhamasanga
• buddha dharma sangha buddha dhamasanga time and the timeless
• unfathomable in their mystery so we know what buddha means we know what dharma means we know what sangha means
• supports your life and here we have buddha dharma sangha time passed time future
• through the generosity of others through the buddha and his teachings through the sangha
• lineage from the time of the buddha 2500 years or thereabouts
• for all of that so this buddha dhama sangha and time past and present is what feeds us in a
• their image their roots are in the in the divine in the buddha nature if i say that much does it is that okay
• we could say instead of seeing them as angel that we see their buddha nature i could say for now just let's use those
• words interchangeably the way the term buddha nature is has been used in the tradition over quite a
• what you resonate with great it's it's you're seeing the buddha potential in this person
• potential in this person at the other extreme of what buddha nature has come to mean is something
• mysterious this person already is the buddha in some way the essence of their being is the buddha
• buddha in some way the essence of their being is the buddha is awakened is the cosmic buddha is the
• the essence of their being is the buddha is awakened is the cosmic buddha is the primordial buddha
• is awakened is the cosmic buddha is the primordial buddha yes
• what it can mean to is to we are all emanations of the primordial buddha particular emanations the primordial
• particular emanations the primordial buddha needs these infinite varieties of faces of expressions that we each are
• of of of well human being but also of the primordial buddha and if we are manifestations of that
• never forget that and the primordial buddha and the body speech and mind of the primordial buddha which manifests
• buddha and the body speech and mind of the primordial buddha which manifests through us also empty also malleable
• the body of the speech in the mind are the primordial buddha your body your speech
• [music] these manifestations of buddha nature [music]

Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 23 mentions

• suffering is released when the buddha talked about insight meditation
• to practice oftentimes though the buddha talks about something another approach which is more
• clinging lead to suffering that's that's what we do all the time the buddha said can you learn to look in different ways
• relationship originally the buddha offered the meta practice to a group of monks who are
• our life what is it the buddha over and over again points to
• a three characteristic of phenomena which the buddha talked about and they are
• pretty much completely disagree and i don't think that's the way the buddha intended it or meant it
• commentaries from about 500 years after the time of the buddha's death and probably they were around even even
• probably they were around even even quite soon after the buddha died and and it took group there it may be
• impermanence at one level what the buddha meant when he talked about is is remembering death
• kinds of levels this is just a fact of our existence first noble truth buddha said there is suffering there is
• relationship with clinging why did the buddha go on and on and on and on about clinging clinging brings
• see how this all fits together why the buddha just kept going on and on about his stuff
• going about it in the wrong way again the the buddha usually he does want us to understand
• we don't we're saying me mine this is me this is mine and the buddha is saying can you practice
• yeah i'm sure i realized behind the buddha i think i didn't know that thank you great good
• good you're welcome yeah and as i said originally it was the buddha introduced this whole practice
• consciousness it's actually said that only a buddha only a fully enlightened buddha not even an arahan but just a
• only a buddha only a fully enlightened buddha not even an arahan but just a buddha
• buddha not even an arahan but just a buddha is able to
• bare attention it's actually a word that the buddha didn't use it's not there in the sooters if you
• things as they are and actually a phrase that the buddha use but that's not what he meant when he
• what what he meant so when the buddha uses the word things as they are what he means what he meant

Sila and Soul (Part 3) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 23 mentions

• lists of paramus and parameters in buddha so firstly
• um and related to that is a third difference so the buddha somewhere in the pali can and i don't know exactly
• the pali can and i don't know exactly where but the buddha has it says all dumbass
• you like and so this phrase of the buddha has all done was converging the deathless could
• and so that the whole everything else in in the buddha's teachings in the dhamma of the buddha serves that end and
• in the buddha's teachings in the dhamma of the buddha serves that end and supports that end and works together all
• being and aids their release or buddha's word release and escape from samsara from the
• experience into the unfabricated it could that phrase of the buddha is all done as converge in the deathless
• an aspect of buddhahood it's an aspect of buddha nature so that in the first teachings about our
• so that in the first teachings about our exploration of what actually is a buddha what is buddha nature damakaya
• exploration of what actually is a buddha what is buddha nature damakaya meant the collection of the buddha's uh
• what is buddha nature damakaya meant the collection of the buddha's uh the collection of a buddhas
• meant the collection of the buddha's uh the collection of a buddhas um qualities the mental qualities
• including their virtues the dispositions of a buddha the the you understand so dharma kai meant that so
• and trainings lead to this collection of qualities that in here in the buddha mind in the buddha can be if you like in
• qualities that in here in the buddha mind in the buddha can be if you like in the buddha nature
• mind in the buddha can be if you like in the buddha nature but that actually is a more mahayana
• idea so it's probable that when the buddha um
• really find it in the pali canon the buddha doesn't really talks about itself but not really
• in teravarden dhana where for instance in the pali canon the buddha often talks about
• delusion and um much less does he talk about buddha nature and your intrinsic goodness and
• in a sort of modern western spin on mayana teachings about buddha nature and so it's very contemporary again is
• right or wrong again i'm sure the buddha somewhere or other says better

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

Concepts, Views, Reality - (Meditation on Emptiness) 23 mentions

• india with where the philosophical milieu that the buddha grew up in had a real strand of transcendence in it that
• and that's actually not uh what's most radical in the buddha's teachings so this going with the flow can actually
• seem like it's quite got the fullness of of what the buddha uh was trying to communicate and to just say that
• impermanence it's it's not enough for the buddha to have really questioned whether he wanted to teach you could uh
• much more difficult to understand so the buddha uh and the angular ikaya says the tatagata is another name for
• uh for the buddha it's it's it's a very different project you if you open the
• things one of the problems and the buddha stated it as well as all this is difficult to understand certainly
• and it's very very very deep and subtle and that's why the buddha had really second thoughts about teaching all this
• any view the buddha in the pali canon has right view in terms of the four noble truths
• emptiness so even in the buddha's right view there's this kind of ripe seeing about
• we want um so similar to the buddha's teaching of a raft it might be that we even go
• in zog chen teachings one of the strands of tibetan buddha and some of you may have come across this they talk about
• that truths have been pre-decided you know the buddha says that this is the uh chapter four number three
• intuitive there are reasons why the buddha was really unsure about teaching all this
• um yes there is ethics and and um the buddha talks about stream entry when i was a very deep understanding of
• the limit and certainly the certainly the buddha you'd be hard-pressed to find the buddha saying that
• the buddha you'd be hard-pressed to find the buddha saying that uh and as i said again in one of the
• from a sense of mystery so the buddha talks about a very very commonly quoted phrase knowledge and
• that would just be cut off from his range you would not expect a buddha who goes into that pancha and kind of big
• necessarily believed again yeah yeah to be a buddha yeah today so you still experience
• so in this question what's real in the sense do we know the buddha talks about and again this is from the pali canon
• out to penetrizing it's a set of concepts that the buddha is using they were actually interestingly concepts
• but it's it's this 72 18. uh the buddha's talking to a a seeker called vacha

The Sense of Self - (Meditation on Emptiness) 20 mentions

• that self is so in buddha diamond the teachings of the buddha
• so in buddha diamond the teachings of the buddha we're not actually trying to destroy the
• now let's take a step backwards actually because for the buddha primary thing was suffering and the end
• tool or a few tools among many so the buddha's question is what gives rise to suffering what increases
• so it's interesting you know reflecting a little while ago on the buddha and he could have set out on his journey
• picking up another identity as a seeker similar to the buddha instead of jettisoning it all maybe there's
• when you open the original discourses of the buddha the original suitors you come across a lot of
• emphasis on striving there's a sort of standard um dialogue that the buddha has oftentimes with seekers
• and it goes like this here's the seeker in front of the buddha and he says so whatever your name is
• because everything's impairment and then the buddha would say okay if if something's impermanent is it
• following and then the buddha would say if this thing is suffering then not
• seekers were looking for at the time of the buddha was the self with a capital s the atman
• the so when a person was seeking that way the buddha would take them through that line of argument did you follow
• way or that way the buddha talks a lot about this so for instance with let's let's take
• circles but the buddha would actually reject them all
• one it's also not not endorsed by by the buddha why because all of them have implicit in
• the self is and that is what the buddha is objecting to that is what the deep dharma
• one of the things that made made the buddha such a gene is one of his sort of strokes of genius if you like
• we interpret a lot in terms of self-view but the buddha in in when he walked out of the palace in the mythological story
• existence upman whatever that was what was going to do it and the buddha kind of had a look at that and thought i

The Wisdom of Non-Duality - (November Solitary) 20 mentions

• noun is is actually present right in the early discourses of the buddha this is often claimed that well
• dualistic teachings just flick through the magic manikaya or something buddha comes across as very very dualistic he's
• discourses but for the most part what we get is the buddha talking very dualistically and very much about
• searching or seeking is of two sorts i tell you this is the buddha to be pursued and not to be pursued two
• goes into what he's saying is the fruits that come out of it so buddha was immensely pragmatic as a teacher it's
• in the mayana teachings are very beautiful teaching about buddha nature actually extremely complex don't have
• practitioner as a human being and actually sees oneself as having buddha nature having something beautiful and
• the examples in the traditions are for example buddha nature your buddha nature is like
• um classic mayan attacks on buddha nature as the essential grain is covered by the
• similarly sentient beings have delusions and their buddha nature is mixed with their stains as long as it is not freed
• to get it so i can eat it another word for buddha nature is buddha potential and like a seed has a
• to do without a problematic self-sense so one possibility is buddha nature another possibility for assam is going
• say is buddha had to chat with a cosmologist who said everything is one he said
• based on perception the buddha's teaching actually goes even deeper than this and please
• foreign this is the buddha talking that practitioner who sees no essence in
• much more subtle so the buddha is talking about another kind of duality the most subtle kind of
• that they do not exist is another but i the tatagata the buddha except neither is nor is not
• samsara and we act in a way that causes suffering but the buddha says but for those with wisdom
• tend to give that a kind of essence and the buddha is saying it's not ears and it's not is not
• possible to see this and actually the buddha already gave us a clue and he said

Nirvana and Transcendence - (Tuesday Evening Talks, Sharpham) 19 mentions

• some reflection so the buddha said i teach one thing and one thing only i
• when when you read the text of what the buddha originally said it becomes clear there's actually in some respects kind
• another seems to be pointing to what the buddha would call the unborn or the unconditioned or the unfabricated or the
• the british tradition if we take the buddha's journey as a young man 27 28 29 years old how he
• the original sort of attacks that the buddha spoke about but in case one wonders well that's maybe
• there is no unborn there is no deathless the buddha didn't mean that he didn't say that what's the reaction
• but is that the totality certainty of what the buddha was pointing to and are we missing something if we don't inquire
• actually much more difficult to realize it's pretty difficult what the buddha is pointing to is very difficult intimacy
• difficult to understand talk about those quotes of buddha is pointing to something beyond and juanpo as well
• the present when the buddha talks about consciousness anyway he says
• again talks about permanence something permanent buddha nature that's permanent that's pure that
• notion away sometimes the buddha the original buddha talks about awareness without an object
• in that way of space buddha says where all phenomena sees
• as a practitioner one time the buddha was with a wandering ascetic you asked him how how am i gonna
• is fabricated the buddha says it's like a painter painting a picture in the same way we
• open me to that knowing and buddha's saying i have to be a destroyer i have to tear down what's
• mind that experiences an unbinding opening into what the buddha would call the deaf person
• doesn't sit that well a little bit buddha said whatever has been pondered over as truth
• was one of the chief disciples of the buddha one of the two chief disciples and said to be foremost in wisdom

In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 19 mentions

• and with that to replicate uh if not the buddha's awakening at least uh some of the sangha of all the enlightened ones
• certain movement to replicate the buddha's awakening and even um
• call it the medical patient fantasy so in the buddha's time the physicians the doctors of his day would present
• medical formula and so we so to speak are to follow the dr buddhas the physician buddha's orders they there
• are to follow the dr buddhas the physician buddha's orders they there says what's the diagnosis there is
• so we follow the as patients as good patients we the buddha has diagnosed us and
• prognosis and all of that and we're we're to follow the buddha's orders there and if we do so we can
• um to borrow the buddha's image of fleshless bounds
• you can hear that in replicating the buddha or um whoever it is and he said got a child or
• like that so you get this kind of what the buddha said and someone was just telling me that the other day and this
• about the unfabricated this is came after the buddha it was put in by vedanta people and
• to to have this insistence on what the buddha said as being the ultimate authority
• how come i've just decided that the buddha is the ultimate authority what do i not can i not see that there's
• understand them of the of the of the the buddha and buddha and the pali canon that that shouldn't happen
• creativity that the art of the divine of the buddha nature of the of of god of the demons
• god the the the the evolution of uh the divine the buddha nature etc so just pointing out a whole other level
• dissipating in in the divine if you like participating in the buddha nature however you want to put it
• images of fantasies of others so for example the buddha we could say it's to do a tradition or other teachers that
• traditionally at least um the buddha uh pointed to eight eight sort of classical

The Fourth Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 19 mentions

• um okay but the fourth geno let's let's go back to the buddha and he says so he's gone through jonah's one two
• at least in the commentaries etc in the buddha the two the two john effectors here are ekagata and upeka so one thing
• read i don't know how how did it sound to read the buddha's description does it sound may be less appealing than
• um somewhere or other a few times in the pali canon the buddha gives it the synonym the nickname the beautiful
• about the other day um the buddha talks that way about the genres at times and this is also a sense
• there's a third possibility taking from the buddha's teaching uh where he emphasized all the genres as perception
• and again it's still a rupage means it's still really as the buddha says the pervading the whole body this luminous
• i don't know what jason was referring to but i also find the buddha's descriptions a bit confusing and
• hollywood is pahana which is also what the buddha uses when you abandon like a unskillful ethical behavior you abandon
• there's different ways and different contexts in which the buddha talks about equanimity and it's a really interesting
• subject this fourth genre is what the buddha would call equanimity based on singleness in contradiction or in
• we touched on yesterday an example was when the buddha talks about the eight worldly conditions
• addition to other instances where the buddha talks about equity based on multiplicity
• the when the buddha talks about right intention which is the second
• good so what are those what's what does the buddha say what they are does anyone know
• the whole thing um so the buddha's image of being wrapped in a white cloth i find actually
• stillness 360 degrees like like the buddha's analogy wrapped wrapped around the body so it's 360 degrees around it's
• there's a there's many instances like i said the buddha talks about the genres a lot in the pali canon there's some
• i don't think it's true there is a passage where the buddha says without jannah there's no liberation without