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'The Holy Life' (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 17 mentions

• um uh in in terms of what it actually means what the buddha really means by papancha it says a lot more it has a lot
• level in other words what is what actually is the buddha referring to when he says puncher what's included in that
• object you can't really talk of anything as the buddha said well phenomenonces or ways of speaking seas
• becomes the upaya what is the means of the buddha the skillful means the skillful means is the
• skillful means the skillful means is the world this is what the buddha uses so that means that this sexual union
• between the female pleasure the female wisdom which at its level of buddha is actually has the word jinyana which is
• and then the sexual union between the gnosis of the buddha and the upaya the um the divine appearances the world and
• the divine subject that buddha that buddha nature that ultimate nauseous the ultimate mind if
• inherent existence this giana this nurses this buddha nature this ultimate knowing is also
• non-duality between the noah and the known so that this buddha nature this ultimate awareness if you like
• refer to the dharmacaya in this bigger sense of the buddha's gnosis of the ultimate kind of awareness if you like
• ultimate kind of awareness if you like of the buddha nature uh
• really understand what a person means by emptiness etc or buddha nature are these words
• like aspects of buddhahood aspects of the buddha aspects of buddha nature aspects of the ultimate aspects of the
• aspects of the ultimate aspects of the buddha's gnosis whatever this union between those aspects is actually to be
• depicted between aspects of let's call it buddha nature um is something that is to be mirrored
• or seeking an escape from the world as the buddha sometimes talked about it into the jannah or into the unfabricated

No Mind - (Meditation on Emptiness) 17 mentions

• another person can say i don't believe that uh the buddha clearly said that awareness also lacks inherent existence
• intellectual belief based on what we've read in the sitters and what the buddha said etc actually the case is that both
• process of perceiving the buddha said if you understand perception you don't need to understand
• dimension of infinite consciousness so the buddha is talking about what you can perceive in really deep states of
• that sutter is most suitors and when the buddha talks to monks or nuns or lay people with with and the monks delighted
• etc uh there's another passage where the buddha talks about in his description in the positive of nirvana which is very
• the unconditioned or the unfabricated and sometimes the buddha talks that in the positive very occasionally and says
• use the same word a teacher even the buddha clearly is the same word with different meanings at different times
• um uh the buddha the tatagata teaches that one who does not see forms one who does
• perception space is a perception the buddha in the pali canon uh this is from the samyuta nikaya 22 number 95. uh
• consciousness listen he says consciousness this is the buddha in the pali canon consciousness when examined
• occurring the name of this suitable i think it's the buddha talking to someone called osun
• none that abides oh soon none of the buddhas has ever seen seize or will see mind or awareness
• idea of none abides awesome none of the buddhas has ever seen seize or will see mind
• holy disinterest a whole other level of letting go in the buddha's words uh not relishing objects not relishing
• level something this house builder buddha talked about starts um
• it's not something we can just do because the buddha said or because we intellectually see that it must be so to

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

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 17 mentions

• fabrication it's a sankara in the buddha's words then maybe i can move to another kind of practice which is let me
• illusory appearance to borrow the buddha's terminology it's a it's a fabrication
• completely different experience to the buddhas um teaching of dependent origination is
• history of buddhism how does an r hunt and how does a buddha um
• so so someone says well the arahunt or or a buddha has a residual amount of kind of karmic momentum
• historically a few hundred years after the buddha's death um this was this was then even that
• um well for a number of reasons but if a buddha was devoted to even though they were completely free
• fudge an explanation of what um how a buddha could come back because in the terrified of the once a buddha's
• um how a buddha could come back because in the terrified of the once a buddha's gone they're gone they don't get reborn
• actually a teaching uh that's uh most people respect that says only a buddha and not even an arahant but only a
• and not even an arahant but only a buddha can contemplate the full emptiness of
• so as i was explained in the practices for someone who's not a buddha which includes an arahan when they if
• that knowing of its emptiness into the way of looking only a buddha it says able to see both
• this word in a positive sense of faking a buddha mind so that we're kind of
• aspects that's involved is this kind of faking of the buddha mind that can actually fully know the emptiness and
• there's an incredible skill of the buddha finding concepts um that we can pick up and use as ways
• you can let go of the ladder one of the buddha's analogy of the raft in the stream the river whatever it is

The Third Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 17 mentions

• okay so the third genre said what does the buddha say about the third genre
• um i would tend not to agree but uh 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
• something a little bit misleading about the buddha's description so
• levels but 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
• the body involved so always you hear in the buddha's description he says it in each short paragraph he says it twice
• 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
• whole of the dharma all the qualities that the buddha is pointing out are pointing to can be seen to be integrated
• certainly more than one passage where the buddha describes the each jhana as an escape
• that of the the equanimity that the buddha is talking about in the third gen and that
• degree of equanimity so the equanimity that buddha is talking about in the third genus is a little
• undisturbable is another word for equanimity or imperturbable the buddha sometimes uses that word not perturbable

Q & A, and Short Talk - (Practising the Jhānas) 17 mentions

• okay so the third genre said what does the buddha say about the third genre
• um i would tend not to agree but uh 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
• something a little bit misleading about the buddha's description so
• levels but 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
• whole of the dharma all the qualities that the buddha is pointing out are pointing to can be seen to be integrated
• certainly more than one passage where the buddha describes the each jhana as an escape
• that of the the equanimity that the buddha is talking about in the third gen and that
• degree of equanimity so the equanimity that buddha is talking about in the third genus is a little
• undisturbable is another word for equanimity or imperturbable the buddha sometimes uses that word not perturbable

Soulmaking (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 16 mentions

• buddhist tradition there's this teaching of buddha nature in in the mayan and the vajrayana traditions now that teaching
• vajrayana traditions now that teaching of buddha nature gets interpreted in different ways in different directions
• shapeable so we have um a buddha potential we have a potential because there's nothing fixed
• eventually into into the uh into a buddha mind consciousness so sometimes that's the
• consciousness so sometimes that's the interpretation of buddha nature other times buddha nature is more seen as
• interpretation of buddha nature other times buddha nature is more seen as if you like a primordial wisdom
• this kind of independent existence so that's what buddhas know that's how buddhas see in in the vajrayana
• that's what buddhas know that's how buddhas see in in the vajrayana tradition and this seeing this
• skillfully mimicking this vision of a buddha this ultimate primordial wisdom awareness and one sort of
• you practice seeing in that way seeing how a buddha sees seeing empty divinity everywhere and in everything
• and what's uh the so-called bear attention it's not a phrase that buddha ever used
• whole i fantasy of a an idea of who the buddha was and what he is was the whole it will come around all that around the
• and the soulmaking comes around around practice path buddha tradition self etc as fantasy as mythos
• as fantasy as mythos so even in the time of the buddha in the pali canon
• whole fantasy and mythos about the buddha and the um fortune of living in the time of the
• um fortune of living in the time of the buddha as this sort of once in an eon manifestation etc

An Introduction to the Jhanas - (Practising the Jhānas) 16 mentions

• subset of that um and the buddha described it in fact he talked a lot about vaginas a lot a
• so i'm going to read you uh quite briefly the buddha's description so he's talking to a bunch of monks so
• um what monks is right concentration this is the buddha talking um there is the case where a monk quite
• genres we'll talk in a lot more detail i just want to briefly give the buddha's descriptions
• like to think about this or encourage so the buddha has a suitor i can't remember what it's called but it might even be
• inexperienced and whatever else the buddha calls it so the cow tries to do that but actually is not very sure of
• demarcate is this genre is that janna what did the buddha mean how do we define it etc some of you will be not
• so we could say one could say well if your experience matches the buddha's descriptions as i just very briefly
• just as it sounds just like um what the buddha described and one has that sense as one's going to say oh wow here i am
• much more than scholarship well i go back to the buddha and this pali word means that that's all good but i mean
• means something like around the mouth to say oh okay well the buddha means this is really the place to pay attention and
• sensors close if you can't hear anything well the buddha didn't say that and does it matter again it sounds
• different species now than we were in the buddha's day yes of course there's lots that's the same the whole way we
• so it's true you can pick up certain phrases where the buddha says in sutters um with his mind in perturbable or
• do you understand and actually the buddha just said it in a little phrase once or twice in the whole pali canon
• so the buddha called the jhanas perception attainment

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 16 mentions

• whatever um even within the buddha dharma contacts of course and they bring
• commonly agree it's an important concept after all the buddha uses it it's right there in the wheel of
• a way of looking well we're responsive to what's needed and in buddha dharma we base our choice of way of looking at any
• i do think so and through the history of the buddha down through millennia there's been until very recently a lot
• response to what can often be and even in the in the history of the buddha dharma there's a there's a sense of the
• helpful in for the arising of faith you know imagine the buddha or imagine this or that
• what opens for us so for the buddha um i would say he was very concerned
• versions of emptiness um is is not what the buddha originally taught but that's just that's just again
• are seeing it freeze but there's many many you know when the buddha kachina asked the buddha what is right view and
• many you know when the buddha kachina asked the buddha what is right view and he said
• um what do you teach about right view and the buddha says i teach the middle way the middle way between ears and ears
• exist it is not for any any phenomenon i the buddha teach the middle way neither is nor is not
• consciousness and consciousness sorry buddha goes on to explain depends on
• lots of places in the pali canon and it's of course tied to the buddha was concerned with that and it's very an
• arahunt understands has penetrated and similarly and the buddha didn't just talk about the anata of phenomena that
• so why they're absent is it that in the time of of the buddha in india they just had better parenting is that is that

Sense Desire - (November Solitary) 16 mentions

• of picking up the volumes of the buddha's discourses of the buddha's talks it's very difficult not to come
• overlook the fact that as far as the buddha and his teaching is concerned it doesn't have a very good press he's not
• but if you look at the the teachings of the buddha and how he talks about sense but it's quite dramatic images
• bird so these are not nice fluffy little images in a way the buddha is being very harsh you say wake up wake up there's a
• self-esteem really deeply truly the buddha has this beautiful stanza from from a longer piece and it's
• uh completely backwards of what the buddha taught actually really encouraged uh indulgence and he uses the word my
• released in about least awakening and meditation experiences don't the buddha said it's the other way around in terms
• very very important teaching of the buddha it says if by giving up a lesser
• the consciousness a little bit music we see by the effects when the buddha took his rice milk before the awakening
• but it actually opened something for the buddha so the pleasant and the unpleasant is actually secondary
• very clear connection there another passage of the buddha whoever has turned to renunciation
• reaction from a lot of people was that's completely wrong and the buddha taught and remember one teacher saying
• taught and remember one teacher saying the buddha taught that you know how can that the buddha taught the end of
• the buddha taught that you know how can that the buddha taught the end of craving and and the end of craving sense
• deeply the nature of experience so for the buddha in the dharma experience is not to be pursued
• as we taste that the more we taste that we are unhooked unbound is the buddha's words we let go naturally of all the