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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

What Are We Doing Here? - (Silent Autumn Retreat, Finland) 19 mentions

• so when when the buddha talks about practice or when we talk about practice
• the most the most subtle thing and the buddha said i teach one thing and one thing only because people came
• really something but that's the promise that was what the buddha promised and that's what every
• even control it and in fact the buddha it was that level of
• something that probably doesn't even exist but the buddha said what's the point of staying
• about indian history around the time of the buddha and this this piece said that
• for indians coming from before the time of the buddha from the time of the punishads which is at least 300 years
• punishads which is at least 300 years before the buddha the idea what took root in indian
• of that and more and more of that that's possible so the buddha said he taught a gradual path a very gradual path
• develop a sense inside of what what the buddha would call wholesome nourishment so that means feeling
• everything that could be really terrible and buddhist you know the buddha said one i teach one thing suffering and a
• care with respect that's feeding the buddha's words literally feeding our sense of well-being
• his list some of you may be familiar with the buddha has all these lists uh you know eight of this and ten of
• so it is actually a small wonder to me how the buddha someone can talk about something that's so lovely and juicy and
• of habits this was one of the things that the buddha had insight into the mind being a set of habits is actually
• attention it's actually not a word the buddha use but this meeting life nakedly really what does the breath really feel
• and brings opening to life when the buddha talks about mindfulness talk about being mindful of everything
• in and it actually adds to our suffering so where buddha says compounding we're adding unnecessary suffering
• extremely subtle and i said in the promise of the buddha is that we can actually uncover that we

The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions - (Equanimity) 18 mentions

• of us to really honor that in ourselves and it's what the buddha would call noble or ennobling
• face of all of that to the buddha breaking it down a little bit talks about what's called eight
• very human and in a way the buddha says to all of that he says to all of that
• actually no matter what is going on that's the kind of buddha's promise and he stays he actually stays very steady
• this is not not easy and the buddha the buddha and the path of the dharma is is in a way
• different way of seeing what's going on so the buddha has this visual image for equanimity
• it's so rooted there the buddha says that's what equanimity is like it's this
• now this indifference when calling indifference the buddha actually talks about that and he says it's what's
• talk about equanimity deepening and the buddha talked about sometimes you talked about equanimity being the
• well when we talk about equanimity the buddha talked about it a lot many many many
• their root and their context in the buddha's teachings and that's not at all to say that anyone
• little scrap about that but the root of them is in in the buddha's teachings in the dharma
• the dharma and the buddha taught a path that actually involves our whole life
• is for the relief of suffering but very much for the buddha concerned with a complete relieving of suffering complete
• path there's no one's business not mine not anyone else is not the buddhas to tell any of you or me or anyone here how
• and the priority becomes listening to that whisper of the buddha listening to that whisper
• that whisper 2500 older even before the buddha 2500 years old whispering it's possible
• it means that that whisper from the buddha and other other teachers of course other traditions

Q & A, and Short Talk (2) - (Practising the Jhānas) 18 mentions

• okay so the third genre set what does the buddha say about the third genre
• um now we tend not to agree but but it does seem looking at the buddha that he put you know this i think two sitters
• possible that there's times when the buddha says the first genre has five factors the second genre has uh two
• so but but this text i've just read from the buddha says all this other business right it says
• elements or aspects that uh clearly the buddha is pointing to but they don't qualify as jhana factors
• something a little bit misleading about the buddha's description so
• first level and i'll following the buddha's lovely simile of this this gorgeous cool pond in a hot
• it's just that corresponds with the buddha's description but in a way there's a way of understanding the
• so i can't remember i i thought it was in the pali canon something the buddha said but it might be in the vasodimaga
• would say i'm not sure that one is practicing what the buddha would call right concentration because there isn't
• involved so always you hear in the buddha's description he says it in each short paragraph he says it twice about
• let's think backward from from the buddha sort of definitions the first genre has ptn sukkah and uh and pt is
• let's say that the hearing is is open and remember the buddha is actually very very clear in his words that it is not
• the whole of the dharma all all the qualities that the buddha is pointing out are pointing to can be seen to be
• the major manikaya there's certainly more than one passage where the buddha describes the each jannah as an escape
• that of the the equanimity that the buddha is talking about in the third john and that
• degree of equanimity so the equanimity that buddha is talking about in the third journalist is a
• another word for equanimity or imperturbable the buddha sometimes uses that word not perturbable

True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) - (Practising the Jhānas) 18 mentions

• the buddha's description of the second genre of which again there's two there's a
• distinguishing it from the first genre where the buddha said is born from withdrawal from the hindrances or
• radiating out sukkah and happiness well the body has become happiness and buddha says no spot of the no part of the body
• again i mean that word in quite a broad way so it's in technically in in buddha psychology it's a chitta quality it's a
• agree with him that as the buddha says pt and sukkah are both present in the first genre and
• own ability to tread the path that the buddha described it's like one really has a sense it's
• remarkable experiences that the buddha described and he's got them in a kind of spectrum
• actually walking this path and it was possible and what the buddha was talking about was really
• or whatever it is or seeing impermanence and saying oh the buddha talked about you know it makes such an impact because
• um half half of you put your hand up so um if you go back to what the buddha said uh what did he say about all this
• having some took about that and the buddha said it's anata you see it as anata both sajhana and the cell so don't
• um but what the buddha mostly said a few times is is this um
• sense pleasure and journey pleasure and reverse the buddha's concerns regarding sense pleasure journey
• um it's changing um but the buddha's pretty clear about this
• um just to remind you again of the buddha's words that we've heard before um describing the jhana pt suka um whole
• kinds of conditions all kinds i mention that monk the buddha also says at certain point depends on the digestion
• and the experience there uh just and it gets really brief when the buddha talks about that but the experience of an
• so the more common danger here is attachment to what the buddha would call wrong view or a misunderstanding or a

Views - (Cambridge Day Retreats) 18 mentions

• crucial and it's not uh it's not a mistake that the buddha when he outlined that the april path put views at the
• so this this question of you of course is is when the buddha addresses it like i said and uh you know again i'm not
• everyone here is so for some people to hear what the buddha says you know has a great deal of significance and for
• fine you know when the buddha talk to our review he said
• so this was a really important question for the buddha that he put out put airport closer for us so
• and am i cultivating so the buddha talks a lot about skill that it's possible to develop the skill
• into freedom so when the again when the buddha talks about uh ways of looking at the present
• this and what is that and the buddha in his original teachings madonna is developed in a lot of
• on a very shorthand level these four and over truths that the buddha talked about in a way it's a kind of simple lens it's
• of go away sometimes that does work but we need to understand buddha's words what's compounding what's fabricating
• a lot of care and a lot of integrity i i think that buddha was very careful in how he set up the path that he used
• even too the buddha said someone who understands that who
• a way you could say more ultimate however the buddha was very practical about this kind of in the original
• instance when a wandering set it came to the buddha and he said
• there is no self right there is no cell and and the buddha refused to answer him and so this guy is the tradition asked
• answer again going patient and the buddha said to ananda that's not that's not a
• love and respect for that but the way the buddha originally taught was don't even go there with that question
• if you read the original text i mean a lot of the advice of the buddha seems to be about

The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 18 mentions

• um teaching of the buddha of uh or to about cessation of consciousness in what he
• as i mentioned briefly um very clearly in what the buddha would talked about in in the pali karen that
• so he talks about practicing and developing skill in practice the buddha in the pali can as i would read it and
• subject any object any time any space no appearances whatsoever buddha talks about cessation of perception the
• this essence of the ultimate if you like and sometimes the buddha puts it in the positive for example he talks about
• um description if you like as much as possible by the buddha most often it's given this negative uh the sort of
• and occasionally the buddha says in fact simply neither putting it in the
• but this transcendent unfabricated deathless or unborn is the buddha might put it or did put it
• buddhism is is well buddha nature people use different vocabaries but the the ultimate in
• vadriana buddhism in some schools of adriana is the buddha nature and that is um replete with qualities full of
• expression so this vajrayana ultimate the buddha nature is a primordial wisdom awareness
• nature is a primordial wisdom awareness this buddha nature it is empty but it's ultimate because it's regardless this is
• ultimate because it's regardless this is the way a buddha sees this is the way this is the wisdom awareness of a buddha
• the way a buddha sees this is the way this is the wisdom awareness of a buddha but it's primordial it's cosmic in a way
• and it's something if you like our buddha nature we possess it inside if you like or it's it's uh part
• mimicking if you like a skillful mimicry of of this buddha mind this primordial wisdom awareness where tantric practice
• are not separate in the same way that the buddha nature as that empty primordial wisdom
• part of the fabric of our being we are not separate from our buddha nature so that when we interpret uh in the

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scripture of Body and... 18 mentions

• aware this is the image of you as buddha and she says i'm sure you remember i have
• several image review images of you and one one is of you as buddha this image is wrapped up in your dharma
• side and all that of course she's not identifying me in this buddha image thankfully i know obviously that you are
• so some of you will have heard of the three bodies of the buddha it's a very um
• um so this is one of the bodies of the buddha in mahayana teaching it's like the buddha is really the primordial
• buddha in mahayana teaching it's like the buddha is really the primordial buddha who is manifesting a a body that
• the buddha is really the primordial buddha who is manifesting a a body that we perceive as physical at some point in
• some touch on these three bodies of the buddha of the primordial damage they can be seen as uh especially the
• certain locus of personhood a historical buddha um but we can also hear it or interpret
• and how his sort of he represented in the five buddha founders he represents or is connected with the aggregate of
• perception third aggregate there's another buddha virochina
• and by russian is another kind of primordial buddha and he represents the bodily the
• we're talking about in in the primordial buddha sense it's really it's it's this level of aggregate that goes with it
• um a manifestation of a primordial buddha of the primordial buddha space where bodies exist and seem to
• its essence is is is a virus in a primordial buddha virochina sacred texts the body and the world the
• the form of information like when you read a set of the buddha was so and so on this happened and that happened the
• divide in a kind of mimicry of a buddha's ultimate nonsense the buddhism gianna
• they're connected and one can if you like mimic that buddha's or

This Matter of Emptiness - (New Year Retreat) 18 mentions

• practice the buddha is very very clear in his teaching he wants us to realize
• a couple of hundred years after the buddha died um another teacher in india nagarjuna
• probably the second after the buddha the most influential buddhist teacher
• um sometimes called the second buddha and in his most seminal sort of famous
• saying and because this is something quite difficult to see the buddha almost didn't teach which is a famous
• this the supreme knower of truth that's the buddha has taught so a person might hear this and say yeah
• emotions thoughts moods perceptions and outer objects all things and the buddha says
• they reinforce each other the reactivity is what the buddha called uh the seamstress that it's stitching the two
• stand it has nothing to lean on and the buddha is saying everything is fabricated everything is conjured and
• when i go off in a loop and the buddha is saying more than that his meaning of papunta is much broader
• all this is an illusion so the buddha has a and i'll paraphrase a bit and then read
• something even the now seems so basic so when the buddha talks about uh
• in awareness in being in emptiness is something real in buddha nature in the deathless or the unfabricated
• so there's a there's a phrase that buddha used i'm not sure how much you used it but
• through for what the buddha i would say really means by as they are is that things be
• not to get technical or grammatical but buddha is also the past participle of become so you could also say it's
• arisen so when the buddha talks about liberation is talking about this he's
• so i'm not saying that i don't think the buddha said that either i'm very aware of how the inner critic

Views In Practice (...They Make All the Difference) - (New Year Retreat) 17 mentions

• this moment and our practice so the buddha of of course addresses the the question of you and he put what he
• comes with whatever spiritual path we have so uh buddha dharma is full of uh you know
• or life is terrible life sucks life is suffering even the buddha said that uh what what what is the view going on
• so as i said the buddha addressed this question and we might say actually if
• we're you know we might say well who cares what the buddha said and that's that's actually fair enough and fine but
• one way of formulating it oftentimes the buddha talked about happiness i touched on this the other day and i'd like to
• and again not all of the time the buddha goes into this what is it that's leading to to happiness and he
• hugely important so the buddha talks about what you know always the question is what qualities
• aging sickness and death which we are all subject to on the buddha called aging sickness death
• realizing something different so the buddha talks also about ways of looking ways of looking that he
• very different it's a way of what i feel that the buddha was interested in was looking using these three
• a thing whatsoever should be come to as i or mine that's the buddha's encouragement to start seeing in a
• not really is there a self or is there not a selfishness buddha actually wasn't interested in that question it's more
• life looking at it this way as i said uh the buddha uh when he talks about second over truth
• builder of experience it's a built it's what the buddha called exactly that a builder of experience
• so to me one of the huge um really profound skills of the buddha was to take a few concepts and say pick up
• freedom completely goes beyond itself so the buddha did say actually something like one who has seen