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Talk Three: Wise Effort and Wise Attachment - (The Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)) 15 mentions

• what is but as i said last night the buddha the buddha didn't actually say that or speak that way or really
• um the word striving the buddha uses that a lot the word striving it's a word which
• go into some of this tonight but the buddha originally uses this word tremendous amount all the time he uses
• there buddha said once it is by relying on craving
• important when the buddha talked about what's called right effort
• others but always the buddha said the four right efforts are this
• what's a part of this wise effort i i feel and i feel that the buddha also that wise attachment is actually needed
• seeing things it doesn't seem to be the way the buddha taught either
• caught on to them in in a good way so the buddha didn't say let go of everything right now
• necessarily than the other so the buddha has this image of a raft a raft and the the image of liberation
• it's good to not be satisfied until one's a buddha until until one's totally
• ourselves so it's all upside down the buddha makes a very important distinction between
• of genium one of these strokes of genius that the buddha introduced shifting from actions to essence
• effort levels etc one of the buddha's lists is what's called the four
• sensitivity the buddha has an image of right efforts like holding a little bird if you

The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 15 mentions

• cultures particularly but the culture of buddha dharma then we have this notion of no self or not self or the self is
• um and as i said levels there but what happens within buddha dharma culture with that is that um
• almost view the whole point or one of the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that
• the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that um
• um most important to the body of the buddha and and the teaching was this kind of
• hidden in there is an unacknowledged fantasy an image of the buddha of the dharma of the history
• things as they are a phrase that the buddha did use is that one didn't use their attention but use that phrase
• acknowledge uh fantasy fancy buddha fancy dharma fancy of history all of that
• is again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha dam it's like that if
• again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha dam it's like that if you like your true self if if one uses
• dogmatic kind of conclusion or assertion um the buddha said or the the truth of the self is what the self really is is a
• process and sometimes i've cracked what the buddha was saying the self is a process this is the true nature thing
• powerful how deep again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha
• again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings
• some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings some philosophies in the west

The Necessity of Fantasy - (New Year Retreat) 15 mentions

• happiness right from the beginning the buddha the different places ethics very very fundamentally on the path so it's a
• the imagination of it say what would the buddha do well actually
• a problem immediately because whose buddha are we talking about who's buddha
• buddha are we talking about who's buddha if you read enough biographies or even
• if you read enough biographies or even passages referring to the buddha and people you realize oh the fantasy of the
• people you realize oh the fantasy of the buddha it's an image of the buddha so i could you know there's three or four or
• five we have a fantasy an image of the buddha and in that an image a fantasy of the direction of practice buddhahood
• being the direction of practice of the goal who's buddha because some buddhists don't give a damn about the world
• don't give a damn about the world some buddhas are thinking about other stuff
• fantasy i can't go back and question the buddha as part of a religious story do you see what i mean
• story in the image we are monks in the dispensation of the holy buddha he is the holy buddha i am on this track of
• dispensation of the holy buddha he is the holy buddha i am on this track of the tradition even now 2500 years later
• that's the problem right dukkha is the problem the buddha said i teach suffering the end of suffering what do
• speaking and he said he thought that shortly after the buddha died monasteries arose institutions buddhist
• wilder the buddha in the time of the word talked about the lion's roar

The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 15 mentions

• cultures particularly but the culture of buddha dharma then we have this notion of no self or not self or the self is
• um and as i said levels there but what happens within buddha dharma culture with that is that um
• almost view the whole point or one of the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that
• the main thrusts of of uh buddha dam what the buddha was saying state that um
• um most important to the body of the buddha and and the teaching was this kind of
• hidden in there is an unacknowledged fantasy an image of the buddha of the dharma of the history
• things as they are a phrase that the buddha did use is that one and didn't use their attention but use that phrase
• acknowledge uh fantasy fancy buddha fancy of dharma fancy of history all of that
• is again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha diamonds like that if
• again in the teachings of buddha nature in in the buddha diamonds like that if you like your true self if one uses that
• dogmatic kind of conclusion or assertion um the buddha said or the the truth of the self is what the self really is is a
• process and sometimes i've cracked what the buddha was saying the self is a process this is the true nature thing
• that powerful how deep again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha
• again some ideas of of buddha nature some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings
• some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings some philosophies in the west

The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 15 mentions

• early teaching the teachings of the buddha historical buddha we find a lot of different words like english a lot of
• um and similarly in in pali in in the language of the buddha we have word like raga uh which actually is is meaning to
• in the party can one way or another um the buddha says the path leads to the end of any uses
• pretty much interchangeable and the buddha uh and the teachings say they are all fetters karma
• that on something that imprisons so and the buddha talks about different fetters and in the process in in the
• they were taken from a vedic creation hymn myth that it pre-existed the buddha by by a long time it would have been
• whole 12 links that was already quite uh well known in in the society the buddha picked it up used those 12 links and the
• out had 11 links would there be certain distinctions would the buddha have picked up a set with 11 links sometimes
• still so there's some relief but still the uh what the buddha called us the outflows the effluent actually it's
• and feeling like oh there's this word that the buddha used and there's this in my experience and i can kind of map them
• um mapped on to some concept that is in the teachings that the buddha used that otherwise might have remained more
• um helpful so the buddha said a lot about all this and in different ways and you know um he
• teachings that way and sometimes all this is there and the buddha's making all these distinctions etc and what we
• so how do we think of the dom is is the dam is was the buddha just saying let go let go
• let go and live peacefully whose buddha is that or is it and is what i want to go into

What is Awakening? (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 15 mentions

• um the quote real stream entry according to the historical buddha inverted commons
• um emphasizing on of the historical buddhas kind of take what assumptions are are operating when
• it's somewhere in the pali can i can't remember where where the buddha actually i think
• um again is that ethical it's not breaking the buddha's um five precepts or in a certain
• set within the context of a dharma and in our case buddha dharma but it could be a hindu dharma or something
• um and that constitutes the the tradition of buddha dharma or whatever um
• the fancy of origins or similar to it um want to argue that the the buddha uh sort of was in some way radically
• changed and the same the same with with the buddha um the buddha picked up found himself in
• the buddha um the buddha picked up found himself in in a certain culture in its own country
• so the buddhist tradition doesn't start with the with the buddha is my point here when we say tradition it's like
• it somehow and it started with the buddha and that was the pure tradition and maybe it's been uh you know subject
• there was already tradition which the buddha traditions plural which the buddha picked up on
• buddha traditions plural which the buddha picked up on and that's part of the buddhist
• of the divines unfolding of the soulmaking of the buddha nature of the cosmic buddha nature of the
• of the soulmaking of the buddha nature of the cosmic buddha nature of the whatever you want to call it of god

Joy - (New Year Retreat) 15 mentions

• and it looks pretty grim so the buddha the buddha also refer to it as a path of joy
• they were how could you tell a follower of the buddha radiance joyfulness it was it was a mark of of uh of the path
• care of attention really so when the buddha and the buddha did actually talk a lot about joy
• to let go story the buddha once you know because they lived on arms so just receiving
• different tradition and that monk got fed and the buddha didn't get fed
• something like that big buddha and uh and the story goes there was just
• and uh and the story goes there was just a pile of straw there and the buddha jumped onto the straw crossed his legs
• so it is impossible for anyone even a buddha to have joy all the time even a buddha is going to rest sometimes
• buddha to have joy all the time even a buddha is going to rest sometimes in equanimity
• out of the way so the buddha used this word a lot skill he used the word skill a lot which is
• between these modes so the buddha talked a lot about what what brings joy and
• mind towards what is beautiful just seeing what is beautiful the buddha's words remaining precipient of the
• that brings joy it's actually quite some of the buddha towards a little formula mindfulness curiosity investigation and
• attention to joy itself the buddha said is a very significant quote
• be very he's very fond of saying the buddha was someone who did not let go he did not let go

Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 14 mentions

• a secular modernist party cannon and then curiously the buddha seems like a guy just like me
• on our assumptions and and we have a certain fantasy of the buddha and a fantasy of as well as conception of what
• hard-pressed it feels too too the you know i don't know if the buddha was alive would even recognize that it's the
• vajrayana in india is you get the the teaching that the buddha said this historically he said this but he said it
• is this is the tradition it goes back to the historical factual buddha or um buddha
• the historical factual buddha or um buddha is revealing this on another plane of
• it feels more viable to me if you open up the language of who the buddha is and who my mind is and etc
• um the the sort of modern modern version of what the buddha meant was this now when he said this and this is and so
• and historical context so if someone said the buddha in secret taught neuroscience
• maybe some people believe that i don't know or the buddha actually wants more from the buddha you know um did teach
• know or the buddha actually wants more from the buddha you know um did teach this in certain psychotherapeutic
• what about being in dialogue with with the buddha with the buddha dharma with the tradition
• um could be in dialogue with the buddha dharma with the tradition with the
• dharma with the tradition with the buddha with the sangha

Death - (Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat) 14 mentions

• skeleton in here it's a reminder buddha says every in-breath and every out breath you should be contemplating
• point of the contemplation of death and the buddha says there is no greater contemplation than
• to every part of samsara is turned back both the buddha and gam pop are pointing to immense potential in this
• right now is we're speaking in pali the language of the buddha there's this word anita anita and a a n
• the like that first one like the the buddha put great emphasis on
• is interesting the buddha right at the beginning of his path before he left the palace i'm sure
• reincarnation and the buddha talks sort of about that and sometimes people say well actually
• sidetrack but in buddhist teaching in buddha dharma it's not so much about reincarnation the
• and buddha dharma talks more about rebirth so i remember hearing a couple of
• we in dharma teaching the buddha talked about contemplating the four elements earth
• but it's interesting the buddha has this passage better than a hundred years lived
• nihilistic and the buddha is a beautiful thing says talking about this
• fabricated dies and the buddha's initial impulse of wants some things that's deathless we
• time like forever it's beyond buddha also has a passage says when as our understanding of this deep lens

Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 14 mentions

• in many ways at all similar to the self um that the people that the buddha was um
• kind of good practice if it's a good um to experiences that the buddha did not ignore
• uh he just brushed off um and as the as the uh the buddha dharma evolved after the buddha died in
• um and as the as the uh the buddha dharma evolved after the buddha died in different streams of tradition the mayan
• um so that's the 19th divinity and the last one um i may use is buddha nature so again in the in the buddhist
• capacity to become fully in line to become a buddha uh usually means over many lifetimes just by virtue of the
• um so in some meanings it just means of the word buddha nature it just refers to that it's just your
• undestroitably the um the possibility of becoming a buddha so that's one usage i mean sometimes in more popular uh usage
• especially some some buddhists so who can use it in buddha nature but in a slight in a in a different way than just
• uh in that tradition um buddha nature means it's interchangeable with words like dharma
• using it so buddha nature damakaya emptiness the absolute in other words and there's
• and and also the emptiness of all things so everything is buddha nature everything has wooden nature everything
• strange is that this this dharmacaya or this buddha nature can act so this cosmic buddha nature can act in the
• this buddha nature can act so this cosmic buddha nature can act in the world and manifest different appearances