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Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 3) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 76 mentions

• on the tradition on the evolution of the tradition and the dharma and the shaping of the tradition and we
• out in how we view the dharma sense that i'm what influences will that have on the dharma
• view the dharma sense that i'm what influences will that have on the dharma but also on how we view drama
• overlooking the presumption of universality in the dharma in other words the dharma tends to
• universality in the dharma in other words the dharma tends to proclaim and most dharma folk presume a
• in other words the dharma tends to proclaim and most dharma folk presume a universal truth that the four noble
• but i i wonder where the most most dharma folk people are steeped in the dharma actually just really assume that
• dharma folk people are steeped in the dharma actually just really assume that now most buddhists are called i don't
• to me this is an interesting question it's like do we assume that dharma is the universe is universal and
• good case i think to look at pali canon dharma teachings and that whole thrust towards transcendence and solitude and
• that the thrust of polycan dharma is quite male but that i think that case could be you know to a
• talk about different worldviews spawning or setting up different dharmas the view of
• their teaching and thrust so do we assume the dharma is universal and the repository of universal truths
• than denmark same about soulmaking dharma you know do we assume the soulmaking conceptual
• hopefully strengths of sophistications of soulmaking dharma is that as i've mentioned a couple of times the whole
• part of the whole conceptual framework of soulmaking dharma is the fact that conceptual frameworks need to be
• times i just wonder how much of soulmaking dharma is is a reflection of my personal dispositions
• to or be consciously injected into dharma or soulmaking dharma etc um
• believe i have an interpretation of buddha dharma one interpretation or my dharma or my version etc i feel more
• buddha dharma one interpretation or my dharma or my version etc i feel more that i have many dharmas many kinds of
• dharma or my version etc i feel more that i have many dharmas many kinds of larger conceptual frameworks i can move
• the old testament in buddha dharma circles but i wonder how that lands and they're
• moved away from the insight meditation and the whole world of buddha dharma and was practicing in another tradition i'm
• and then she was telling me that she felt drawn to buddha dharma again and was explaining
• because if it's just the icon where is the buddha dharma in there actually representations of divinities
• etc does that make it a return to buddha dharma but if it's only that it's a typically
• as i was it we practice in in buddha dharma at least as i tend to most commonly present it
• the effects of the cultural context and how might we look at the dharma look at tradition look at where we've got to
• we can then think about the dharma as or think about whatever tradition we're
• or think about whatever tradition we're talking about it says buddha dharma it's all making tradition whatever as aspects
• dead end is is is really the idea of practice and dharma as art rather than as a pursuit of truth
• would regard as not an i tend to regard mainstream dharma as an art as well and again i've talked about this before
• up and wrapped up in in the idea of dharm and certainly soulmaking dharma as arc
• but also like um are i would say so making dharma itself is in this sense of endlessness
• to conceive or situate soulmaking dharma to write a history in well at least two
• regarding its situation vis-a-vis let's say mainstream buddha dharma so given everything we've said it's
• boundaries within the scope of what we what we understand of as buddha dharma and certainly it evolved from buddha
• and certainly it evolved from buddha dharma insight meditation as its basis it uses a lot of the tools a lot of the
• the way i would um practice and teach buddha a part of buddha dharma it came very much as i explained out of
• and certainly there's other elements of buddha dharma that we could say in soul making dharma they're the same concepts
• buddha dharma that we could say in soul making dharma they're the same concepts they're just expanded beyond maybe what
• many proponents of mainstream buddha dharma would
• i would urge the view that what's happening in soulmaking dharma is actually we're expanding the ethics
• dimensions of generosity wrapped up in in soulmaking dharma but one view was is is that the soulmate
• or seeing it situating it conceiving of it is that actually buddha dharma is in soulmaking it's a part of soulmaking
• and emphasized and they direct and determine what kind of dharma i want
• um feed in to determining the dharma and again we could regard that as a movement
• global sense if you like so that dharma itself is an expression of salt of soulmaking and as such it's
• movement of soulmaking so one view is soulmaking dharma is within the buddha dharma and another
• so one view is soulmaking dharma is within the buddha dharma and another view
• view is the dharma is in soulmaking buddhama is a movement of soul was ears will be a
• you could make a claim that soulmaking dharma is well within the scope of traditional
• well within the scope of traditional buddha dharma and maybe even stretch it and claim that's kind of the buddha did
• and claim that's kind of the buddha did teach soulmaking dharma etc so you get that that's very typical in
• um conceive soulmaking dharma that way one could perceive it
• um as completely having broken out of the bounds of buddha dharma and being something else a vessel has shattered
• or a third way one could regard soul making dharma as part of the current expansion of buddha dharma in the in the
• making dharma as part of the current expansion of buddha dharma in the in the west the current birth actually of
• of meeting of cultures just as when the buddha dharma went to japan or china or tibet and it met with
• regarding a third story of about soul making dharma in its relationship to traditional dharma actually we're part
• making dharma in its relationship to traditional dharma actually we're part of that expansion is happening right now
• so that movement of the buddha dharma meeting western culture
• range of what's already agreed upon as this is buddha dharma and maybe where i which story i choose depends on soul
• and if there's two ways of spinning a story soulmaking dharma is in buddha dharma or the dharma is in soulmaking
• story soulmaking dharma is in buddha dharma or the dharma is in soulmaking buddha is in in in the soul in in is
• culture at this time and because we've been saturated in buddha dharma it may be that doing that actually is light
• shocking perhaps to many people who hear it many dharma people who hear it many others who hear
• possibilities so if you just make a dharma that fits that that becomes a vessel
• way sometimes people say to me uh soul making dharma is it's what the world needs now it's exactly what we need in
• possibility soulmaking time is one possible dharma for our times it does seem to me to have the strengths
• of course there are other ways but but within within the soulmaking dharma it seems to me to offer all that it also
• cosmos do we live in that that will affect what kind of dharma we we have what kind of sense of this is the
• anthropology and cosmology on on the vision of the dharma the sense the scope of the dharma the version of the dharma
• vision of the dharma the sense the scope of the dharma the version of the dharma and awakening
• explore the diversity in in a larger range of whole conceptions of the dharma so all that can fit into
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Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 71 mentions

• wonders is that the dharma is that dharma very understandable and we've said a
• the possible ways of conceiving of dharma that might open up a space for images and fantasy and this
• the whole relationship of dharma ways of conceiving the dharma and ourselves in relation to that and the
• very fertile very fruitful way of conceiving of dharma and dharma practice is as practicing developing skill in a
• in doing so traditionally at least how i would like to think of dharma practice traditionally the traditional democrats
• um or a way of understanding traditional dharma let's put it that way um and there's this so there's this
• and in a way any practice that we any dharma products that we do can sort of be placed in one of those three baskets
• to our perception and sense of what the dharma is what awakening is what who the buddha was etc
• imbuing our conceptions and um perceptions of of all that of dharma of awakening of of buddha of parth etc
• little bit more are the possibilities for relationship of dharma conception conception of dharma and an imaginal
• for relationship of dharma conception conception of dharma and an imaginal practice
• different interpretations of what the dharma is saying in relation to self and i would as i said rather open things
• so sometimes again in in in in in in dharma you would come across something that says
• dependent rising and empty that's too narrow i would say a full dharma understanding what emptiness means goes
• and how it might fit with it with a broader dharma conception but how
• um conception in the diamond direction in the dharma of decreasing suffering freeing from suffering many people would
• freeing from suffering many people would wisely say that is what dharma is the four noble truths in a nutshell and
• whole idea and the whole fantasy of the dharma complex complex and not necessarily easy
• different times rather than all those more traditional dharma intentions in approaching experience
• fantasies that are imbue my my whole sense of the dharma and my whole vision and sense and conception of what
• we compare sort of three streams if you like of dharma they're more of audreyana the tantric tradition
• recognize that then actually it puts the dharma on a different ground we have a different grounding than for
• we have a different grounding than for dharma and it's grounded more in imagination and fantasy
• what does it mean to to to have as our scent of the ground of the dharma uh that it that it is already imaginable
• and a person yes but is that buddhism when we realize that the dharma is grounded in in imagination anywhere and
• that recognition there's a fantasies are operating of dharma of awakening etc and also metaphysical assumptions
• at the basis of the grounding of what the dharma is and also the metaphysical assumptions and the keyword there is
• the imagination is the ground of the dharma it's a metaphysical assumptions also
• buddha historically around buddhism around dharma around self around all that something's going on in the psyche
• metaphysical assumptions operating in any any framing of the dharma the path of the goal awakening all the
• recognition of fantasy and that brings a different ground for the dharma in the imagination and
• soulfulness and its relationship to the dharma you understand and that includes the
• and people do very much try this is my interpretation of the dharma and this new concept which probably comes from
• kind of make a point that that's already within the dharma historically or this or that or it's a more materialistic
• view and again i try and spin the history of the dharma and so this is what the buddha was really
• place the whole thing in in a i'm framing it as this is within the dharma and i'm the self then is just
• talk of soulfulness in and try and present it as a more traditional dharma package that was already there that i'm
• this soulfulness what we're really doing is expanding the dharma we inherited this much dharma this range
• is expanding the dharma we inherited this much dharma this range and now we're expanding it as as is our
• and soulmaking are actually stretching what the dharma means and that would be a fantasy and then the fantasy of the
• or another possibility is um we're breaking out of the dharma that could be a fantasy of what we're doing
• whole relationship with soulfulness with the dharma and in that wrapped up in that as always is a fantasy of self
• let's say i choose the fantasy of it's within the dharma it's already there it was already there and just i'm
• um when whatever fantasy i have of the dharma there and of the self that has to be engaging and enchanting to me
• work itself and also the fantasy of the dharma what is the conception what is the
• what is the conception what is the framework of the dharma that i'm engaged that i'm engaging in is it engaging to
• because i could go further and say is it big enough is my fantasy of the dharma big enough for the soul or will the soul
• outgrow the conceptual box and and the fantasy box of the dharma that i have right now
• different paces for different people but the question is my dharma framework that i'm operating in is my fantasy or
• vision if you like my mythos of the dharma is it big enough or will the self outgrow it if i let soulfulness be
• and then recognizing actually through that we can put the dharma on a different ground on imaginal ground
• conceiving of the relationship with soulfulness and and dharma and the self within that and then this
• question is my fantasy and my conception of the dharma big enough or will the self outgrow it
• practice through a marginal practice or whatever we begin to see that dharma concepts clinging and four noble truths
• and this and that they're not realities they are not realities dharma concepts are not pointing to real things
• are not pointing to real things they are ways of looking a dharma concept functions best when it is a way
• and so there's a range of way of looking not a single way of looking but dharma concepts offer
• different lenses and even those lenses have ranges in them so dharma concepts are not realities they're ways of
• and also that bring freedom both in the future but also in the moment the dharma concepts of ways of looking that bring
• different ways so we pick up dharma concepts not as realities but as tools as lenses as ways
• opens up the perception the dharma concept and bring a sense of freedom from they also open the
• very different way of understanding the dharma what we're trying to do what the central
• what we're trying to do what the central thrust and movement of the dharma is and as i said it's i would feel it's more
• so we have to have a slightly different way of conceiving of the dharma than what may be normal
• that is part of practice just as in a more traditional dharma understanding the question would be what conceptual
• oftentimes especially nowadays and even some presentations of modern dharma will say i'm not interested in truth truth is
• rigid so this is our box of what reality is or what the dharma is or whatever it is and and the box is too tight it does
• this whole investigation of the relationship of soulfulness and dharma and ways of conceiving dharma all this
• relationship of soulfulness and dharma and ways of conceiving dharma all this is related it's wrapped up in there
• this very question of the relationship of soulfulness and dharma is potentially itself also soulmaking
• frameworks different ways of understanding the dharma and eros and all that together in relationships and

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 51 mentions

• and looking obviously particularly at buddha dharma and also soulmaking dharma etc
• buddha dharma and also soulmaking dharma etc and as part of that
• influence and shape and condition of the tradition the dharma that whatever it is at the time in that
• in what they contribute to to the tradition to the dharma and how things get
• what shape dharma the dharma the buddha dharma a tradition any tradition and what are we
• that we might hear or read or that's presented to us in the dharma as a practice possibility as a teaching
• just they just do not register so in some ways we choose a dharma in an individual chooses a dharma to some
• so in some ways we choose a dharma in an individual chooses a dharma to some extent to some extent based on their
• or sub-traditions etc and so these the dharma that we choose i want this down i want the tradition to
• be this i want to see the tradition to be this or i choose this kind of dharma their
• presentation of donald this tradition or that uh picture of the dharma that model that conceptual framework over another
• in in a particular way and shapes the dharma in a particular way relative to that worldview so for
• but that view there is only matter then the whole dharma as one of you the whole dharma that comes out of that is
• then the whole dharma as one of you the whole dharma that comes out of that is what we might call a kind of secular
• what we might call a kind of secular existentialist view of dharma that's the real condition of things there is only
• so that gives a whole picture of the dharma basis and picture and limitation and trajectory orientation of the dharma
• dharma basis and picture and limitation and trajectory orientation of the dharma compare
• and inform what dharma one gravitates towards
• and that's in some sub-traditions of the dharma it's a very common view
• orients shapes orients constrains limits sets up a whole dharma and what the situation is we're addressing and what
• what's valuable there relative to that and that shapes the whole dharma and direction
• all whatever it is and how does the dharma then what kind of dharma gets built up around
• and how does the dharma then what kind of dharma gets built up around that worldview
• um and what what actually or talk to dharma friends or people what actually is their
• view underpinning underpinning the whole dharma and therefore shaping it so the first three are really quite common the
• or more congruent with the soulmaking dharma and perhaps less less popular i would
• say in the wider world of in the wider tradition of contemporary dharma the but in that view all manifestation is divine
• this a lot before in the soulmaking dharma but not only because of that
• what does that logos do the sense of the dharma what my job is what my orientation is what i'm moving
• of jobs and and work to do and scope and what the path is for dharmas essentially and implicit in each dharma is a kind of
• what the path is for dharmas essentially and implicit in each dharma is a kind of awakening
• ontology will shape very different dharma damage trajectories very different dharmas essentially
• dharma damage trajectories very different dharmas essentially and what is it that that predisposes us
• orchestral presupposes a certain aim of in this case buddha dharma or or judaism or whatever it presupposes
• so it presupposes a certain aim of buddha dharma or jewish mystical practice or whatever
• views can't help shape and orient us and create a kind of dharma and then and then really create different uh she
• that there are if we look at buddha dharma we can notice
• different views and and soulmaking dharma's relationship with emptiness and the imaginal practice relationship with
• to our sense or to anyone's sense of what the dharma is what are the rival or complete competing
• motivations for this or that version of say this portion of the dharma or the whole dharma or the trajectory or the
• say this portion of the dharma or the whole dharma or the trajectory or the tradition
• when we when we again when we look in in the dharma culture sometimes it's hard to step out of it and actually see
• so they get spoken by authorities in dharma talks and writings etc freedom liberation awakening
• for the practitioner in in the context of the dharma doing retreats hearing this language repeating it for oneself
• soul desires and inclinations come in to a person's perception of the dharma their choice of a dharma a tradition
• a person's perception of the dharma their choice of a dharma a tradition etc and their contribution to it
• question whatever it is a question about any aspect of dharma how will you know
• in a in the structure and the conceptual framework of a particular dharma that's related to also this never
• primary in their significance and their determination of what the dharma is what is the buddha dharma what is the
• determination of what the dharma is what is the buddha dharma what is the tradition
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In Praise of Restlessness - (November Solitary) 48 mentions

• um the range of dharmas if you like that are um
• and through inquiring in into our own dharma whatever that dharma is or and the dharmas that we come into contact
• dharma whatever that dharma is or and the dharmas that we come into contact with
• fund them in a very fundamental way wrapped up with all dharmas all dharmas are two if you like
• and that always comes into any any dharma whatsoever
• imagination and fantasy is imbuing the whole of the dharma our dharma whatever it is in some ways or others
• shape will color will circumscribe and limit effectively what the dharma is for us what the four noble truths mean what
• if we admit all that then the usual ground that we have for the dharma the usual ground in a way is gone we've
• fantasies but all that puts a very different ground for the dharma the the variety is good it's good it's not a
• homelessness that's what we're used to hearing about in the dharma classically then there's if you like the kind of
• it's quite it's quite a common archetype if you like in some dharma circles there's the homelessness of the fugitive
• then one possible fantasy of the dharma and of the path is that liberation awakening is open-ended it's
• in fact we ask is is the fantasy that i am entertaining of my dharma whatever your dharma is is it that the dharma is
• am entertaining of my dharma whatever your dharma is is it that the dharma is more like science or more like religion
• uh for instance nowadays in in the in these kind of dharma circles very popular people say pali canon let's go
• assumptions whatever they are and it rests on a fantasy at our dharma rests on fantasy of awakening etc the four
• and then what why practice how do i see the dharma and practice so let's stay with this science religion
• um different possibilities of of a view of views of the dharma pick out a few threads here because one
• um but there's not much art in in the dharma in certain dharma scenes it's not necessarily because of the
• and much art needs doing and desire so what has come into the dharma is a zen paradigm of the calligrapher
• even when it's difficult i was talking with another dharma teacher long-term damage just it just
• dukkah there's no place for it in the dharma but again here there's the recognition
• four pothos maybe practice and dharma form if you like constellate an avenue a context a
• and open and be unending a mythos the dharma as mythos for pothos and pothos this and it doesn't always
• relationship with eros in general in the dharma and what place that has because sometimes we talk about fantasy
• um beauty is already part of what you love in the dharma some sense of beauty is already part of why you love the
• is already part of why you love the dharma you are not just in this as a set of techniques to reduce your suffering
• we are in love partly with the beauty that a particular mythos of the dharma and its particular cosmology
• um sing to us with if we would say dharma entertain the idea maybe dharma it could
• if we would say dharma entertain the idea maybe dharma it could be like art or we could see the dharma
• entertain the idea maybe dharma it could be like art or we could see the dharma as kind of art and then
• a beautiful life the dharma is about beauty and about a beautiful life
• open to interpretation so if we say r dharma as r then what is liberated well my sense of life my sense
• beauty enchantment something in here is about dharma as myths or myth or myths because it could be plural myths to live
• because it could be plural myths to live by myths for us to live by the dharma as myth for us to live by in
• compass to set our direction among the range of dharmas that are there so you might be hearing this talking
• um so if i say one possibility is actually to see the dharma as art to see it as ours just one one possibility
• etc intuition somebody is an art in that sense if i say dharma as arc can you get the sense i'm meaning
• and mythos this means that when we say dharma is art we're talking at a whole different level here
• but if we had to sum up what what's involved in that vision of dharma's art what could we say well one is
• so there's that aspect more importantly though if we say dharma as art it's not religious in the sense
• this is a truth this is fact maybe what we're dealing with in dharma is r is more a notion of
• is r is more a notion of poetic truth so the things of the dharma the dharma itself awakening buddha the
• poetic truth so the things of the dharma the dharma itself awakening buddha the tradition this that this person this
• but a fourth thing in which we've covered already if dharma can be seen as art or if we would enter into that
• very unusual nowadays the dharma as art then art and dharma not only about my life so so popular
• only that so dharma and practice may be like art maybe they also also in addition to
• always bigger than the proposed purposes dharma as art always something bigger

Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 1) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 47 mentions

• as a slightly strange subject for a dharma talk to talk about the tradition or tradition or what a tradition is
• obviously about the tradition of buddha dharma the buddhist tradition
• place or how we might conceive of the place of say soulmaking dharma with respect to buddha dhana
• and how do how do we conceive of soulmaking dharma how do we place it with regard to the tradition of buddhama
• to consider or a soulmaking dharma tradition too early to say anything like that but
• that element is to me at least less apparent in say pali canon buddha dharma as it's come to us certainly in the west
• think but our modern western buddha dharma insight meditation tradition and other
• psychology much more obviously into that dharma teaching but even if it's not it's there in the background
• in the presentation of one western dharma i'm not sure is the other diamond heart
• incorporated mixed in in a way in the presentation of buddha dharma that's becoming in a way you can't really see
• the scenes and the divisions they become part of what the dharma is neuroscientific notions beliefs points
• um contemporary dharma tradition well the state of the dark tradition at
• four fires going as as opposed to three would we then have had a dharma that had four key laces or two chelases dependent
• it's a very central apps or both these ideas are these dharma concepts three cholecers and extinguishing them and the
• none of these are again it's a it's a it's a dharma concept that um that was formed or
• ideation both within and outside of buddha dharma has an enormous cloud and so in a way the whole soulmaking
• and so in a way the whole soulmaking dharma teachings or much of it is is placed in that context and in response
• might the soulmaking teaching the soulmaking dharma actually be given quite a different spin or have
• again if we if we cast our eyes about us in contemporary buddha dharma and um or even wider than buddha dhama we see
• sort of fed back into buddhism um and what might become buddha dharma as well as secular mindfulness etc
• the real buddhism the real dharma so anyway that was slightly
• both tendencies with respect to different aspects of dharma buddha dharma if we're talking about that as an
• different aspects of dharma buddha dharma if we're talking about that as an example and obviously that's the one
• our life we talk about soulmaking dharma in our in um in our
• deep love and commitment and devotion to the soulmaking dharma all this applies to soulmaking dharma as well if
• the soulmaking dharma all this applies to soulmaking dharma as well if we can
• so to me being in tradition i very much feel this in terms of buddha dharma that i am we we are we can be in dialogue
• uh obviously his teaching in the buddha dharma and explaining that and then sometimes telling stories about the
• his predispositions um i think gave birth in him to a dharma that i i was extremely influential and
• um inspiring for me and beautiful and very much opened what the dharma could be
• very much taken with his teacher's dharma the abbott's dharma had i just heard it you know
• had certain views about uh he would say as i understand the dharma taught by the blessed one the buddha those acts the
• man from whom have you understood that dharma taught by me in such a way worthless man haven't i in many ways
• but you worthless man through your own wrong grasp of the dharma have both misrepresented us as well as injuring
• get entangled in in arguments about what is the the true teaching the true dharma etc he's
• protective of what he sees as this is the dharma this is the the dharma that i have set in motion and that whatever
• when beings are degenerating and the true dharma is disappearing there are more training rules and yet fewer monks
• disappearance of the true dhamma as long as a counterfeit of the true dharma has not arisen in the world but there is the
• not arisen in the world but there is the disappearance of the true dharma when a counterfeit of a true dharma has arisen
• disappearance of the true dharma when a counterfeit of a true dharma has arisen in the world
• it's not this so it's not that that makes true dharma disappear it's worthless people who arise right here
• dhamma disappear true dharma doesn't disappear the way a boat sinks all at once
• qualities that tend to the confusion and disappearance of the true dharma but these five qualities tend to the
• stability the non-confusion the non-disappearance of the true dharma which five
• proliferation of what he could counterfeit dharma watering down mixed teachings mixed confusions
• if it's okay with you i'll i prefer to stick to the dharma that i heard myself from the blessed one's lips from the
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Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 40 mentions

• nature with respect to the self with respect to the dharma and other things and coming at it from different
• and coming at it from different directions either through dharma understandings of emptiness
• understandings of emptiness uh deep dharma i'm saying is emptiness or through more recent
• in certainly in the dharma scene for the most part but what is it to realize that it's
• conception and vision and our very feeling of what the dharma is for us so when we realize that that pervasion
• life and that pervades also our sense of the dharma then that does something to our very
• then that does something to our very sense of the dharma eventually it puts it on a different ground and what then
• it on a different ground and what then does the dharma become is there another way of conceiving the dharma given that
• does the dharma become is there another way of conceiving the dharma given that realization
• regarding the pervasion of fantasy and what it means for the dharma and regarding this what i'm calling we're
• and also beyond a view of self that would quite popular in the dharma these days saying the self is just a process
• but actually radically beyond law part of what helps is a dharma understanding that the the self the self
• thoroughly and totally empty which means much more in dharma language i would say than to say that the self is a process
• mentioned in western culture modern western culture and also in dharma culture that where there's a kind of
• is part of a sense of expansion of the dharma and our sense of what the dharma is now that's quite
• expansion of the dharma and our sense of what the dharma is now that's quite interesting even if i use that word
• being historically accurate are we radically undermining the dharma perhaps
• imagining that we're conceiving the relation of olives to the dharma again something i'll come back to later on in
• now included in that in terms of uh sort of opening up of the dharma and extending
• extending um our sense of the dharma is that we're also extending or altering for some
• um the four noble truth was so central to dharma practices teaching of suffering and ending or at least
• live so we're not locked into a dharma view or attitude or attempt to live
• something as if that's kind of the dharma way or that everything's impermanent it seems so obvious
• even changing the relationship with what we consider dharma foreign
• that in regards to the dharm and how we conceive of and relate to the dharma so it would be
• someone listening has a kind of loose conception of the dharma maybe haven't really articulated it the loose
• really articulated it the loose conception of the dharma as involving sort of
• miss it so you want to be present so the dharma we might think we might conceive of the darwin saying try always to be
• and in addition this conception of the dharma popular conception might say and try not to cling
• it's that's kind of the conception that we might have of the dharma try to always be present because this is it
• or some people might have a conception of the dharma it's coming it's a little bit more influenced by a stream such as
• so those are two quite common sort of very loose conceptions of what dharma is that people may have it's quite popular
• at different times and that's what we're practicing through all these dharma tools and dharma notions
• practicing through all these dharma tools and dharma notions and related to that is that there are
• this in this way of conceiving the dharma it's not that we're trying to move through our life without clinging
• develop and open up that means that dharma is as practices is not just one tract it's not just one thing don't
• others of life of beauty and also of the dharma as i said which includes notions of awakening and also includes the
• is our our vision and our sense of the the dharma and awakening and all this stuff
• um for some people they say i'm going beyond the dharma now some people say i've gone beyond the dharma that's the
• beyond the dharma now some people say i've gone beyond the dharma that's the question is it is it not how how is that

Sila and Soul (Part 2) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 39 mentions

• spiritual development are psychotherapy and buddha dharma now of course they're two extremely
• about one thing and we talk about buddha dharma there's many different kinds so in what i say in terms of considering
• either of these things is one thing psychotherapy or buddha dharma certainly many different kinds and of course
• when it's in its gifts you know we can see that the dharma would have similarly similar
• police something or is torn in some way and there's also in the dharma the teachings of the emptiness of self so at
• practice of psychotherapy as a client or as a therapist or the practice of dharma is that practices can evolve in
• framework any logos whether it's a dharma logos or psychotherapy logos whatever it is anything else brings with
• um psychotherapy or dharma with soulmaking at all but just because soulmaking
• that kind of psychotherapy or this kind of down or that kind of dharma it will bring its limitations and with that
• everything seems to be changing very fast in the dharma world now i in the dunwood in particular in the wider
• me is that whatever i might say regarding for instance ethics and dharma or whatever
• to consider expanding our our expanding our dharma to expand our ethical sense and deepen our ethical
• in in these talks about ethics and dharma and opening that up is just one it's just one piece
• and so sometimes that's a lot of what people will bring into not just a dharma context but but a psychotherapeutic
• um now at this time in our wider culture what do dharma practitioners and teachers or diamond heart practitioners
• perspectives so if we turn now to dharma to buddha dharma and that wider tradition
• so if we turn now to dharma to buddha dharma and that wider tradition and so try and shine a light there
• speedy and superficial way onto buddha dam and different kinds of buddha dharma for example
• sort of traditional teravard and buddha dharma if i remember staying at a monastery for
• um context to teravan and buddha buddha dharma where the aim is really to get off the wheel of rebirth to get out of
• actually nowadays that kind of light in the context of buddha dharma that kind of light's actually quite
• they're not allowed um and maybe i'm a dharma teacher and i'm explaining and i give them a dharma
• um and maybe i'm a dharma teacher and i'm explaining and i give them a dharma talk that would be an interesting thing
• talk that would be an interesting thing my dharma talk to these 10 or 100 people justifying why i deserve that special
• cheaper energy company or even as a dharma teacher if i fly to teach a lot
• um easy assumption that because i'm a dharma teacher i must be my
• 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
• just speak about in insight meditation dharma tends to just receive the same view of the world as as the
• ethos and therefore the ethics of and of buddha dharma let's say that has no place
• our contemporary age and just in terms of let's say just pluto dharma the subculture of buddha dharma
• 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
• tradition right now mostly our buddha dharma and ways that with all the gifts and all the bounty and and
• be limited and if we expand the scope of dharma to include more soulmaking dharma ideas
• and if we expand the scope of dharma to include more soulmaking dharma ideas and perspectives and paradigms then then
• about sacredness we can expand them all with the help of soulmaking dharma paradigms and what they bring in to
• that even within certain subcultures like like the dharma or inside meditation tradition or whatever that
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Buddhism Beyond Modernism - (November Solitary) 32 mentions

• different kinds of meditation so that's one of the tasks of many dharma talks and or dharma talks try and address a
• one of the tasks of many dharma talks and or dharma talks try and address a very wide range of uh
• and or a dharma talk i would try and explain the dharma or
• a dharma talk i would try and explain the dharma or explain a take on the dharma
• i would try and explain the dharma or explain a take on the dharma so any any and all of that is uh more
• liberation of the path even of the dharma we could say dharamos because as we said
• last time there are there are a whole range of dharmas that now exist teachings dharma looks very different
• range of dharmas that now exist teachings dharma looks very different depending on who is presenting it
• mixed in with ideas and complementing ideas that are presented in any dharma presentation are also what we could call
• presentation or book or whatever it is has a kind of mythos of the dharma a certain
• they flavor and direct the sense and experience of what the dharma is i have a flavor direct shape and actually
• circumscribe limit the limit what we think the dharma is what we whatever notion or dim sense we
• to me that's very much at the center of what this is all about and what dharma practice is all about that may not be a
• i'm going to read a few passages but translate this to the dharma world and translate this to just the everyday
• i think a lot of what he says is relevant to dharma inquiry or red wine inquire any other inquiry
• professional education is that not true for the dharma in some instances minus the strenuous bit
• and because the student scientists graduating the dharma practitioner evolving in their understanding etc
• okay when we come to the dharma we have this four noble truths as something that's
• framework shorthand framework for the whole of the dharma right there uh
• so it could give you lots of examples within the dharma don't have time so i just mentioned one
• so there's something in inquiry when we talk whether it's dharma or life or whatever
• everything and how that affects the path and the notion of the dharma whatever or
• different buddhisms that exist the different dharmas that exist for us have they become closed economies we send
• um we could say that some dharmas nowadays are kind of what we could call modernist
• are kind of what we could call modernist dharmas and modernist armors believing in the primacy that the essential
• kind of shattered as an idea so what kind of dharma does that give us could that give us a dharma where the
• so what kind of dharma does that give us could that give us a dharma where the notion of matter being the essential
• notion of matter being the essential reality a dharma where the notion of impermanence as being ultimately true
• true this other dharma might have or another time might have just there are ways of
• out of date in a way and so a modernist dharma will also be out of date the metaphysics the tenets the
• it's not arrived at singularly one alternative dharma could include that one possibly could include that
• it's not a bad thing i'd say fantasy has such a bad rap in dharma in dharma teaching i don't think it's a beautiful

The Image of Ethics (Part 3) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 27 mentions

• dharmakaya body of dharma the body of qualities of body of attributes of a buddha of a
• and as well what might soulmaking dharma offer to these ways to these possibilities of
• dimension what ways might soulmaking dharma and that whole conceptual framework modify some of these
• and until the differences from soul making dharma uh were exactly that the kind of radical
• entertained it's very difficult to entertain that within soulmaking dharma context me you can but it's it's sort of
• sensing the soul but in still making dharma practice we can also even deliberately move between
• happens to the actual sense of things with enough soulmaking dharma practice and all the sensitivity and receptivity
• this is really really key in terms of ontology and what how soulmaking dharma is going to or can approach this and all
• participating in this very deep sense the soulmaking dharma practice um both kind of leads to and involves i
• that comes with it all of that soulmaking dharma kind of allows and supports
• say is very much part of what we're including in soulmaking dharma but it doesn't only need to do that that's not
• today as well and you can hear it in a lot of dharma voices as well and there's a kind sometimes it goes
• have been in in in another series actually is my philosophy my dharma my ethical thinking
• in this case the ethical style the picture of the dharma the range of the dharma the vision of awakening talked
• picture of the dharma the range of the dharma the vision of awakening talked about this before
• whatever ethics dharma human existence etc so that's one thing i'm wondering about but also the
• that um with a soulmaking dharma uh approach to ethics
• to kind of learn all the subtleties and sophistications of soulmaking dharma practice
• together when you think about soulmaking dharma practice as a sort of process or guide
• ethical choice but i guess so making dharma practice approach could also be regarded as
• then also we might see soulmaking dharma as substantive
• and then again it's interesting in the soulmaking dharma we have this theory or idea that the soulmaking
• discovered so that's in the soulmaking dharma sort of meta conceptual framework as well
• so that kind of idea and and it can be certain interpretations of buddha dharma um
• thesis of soulmaking dharma there's something often unexpressed
• open something up see what soulmaking dharma and practice can offer into this
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The Necessity of Fantasy - (New Year Retreat) 27 mentions

• different approach theoretically in the dharma it's the base it's partly the base of the path
• it's not yet if you like part of the image or the fantasy of what dharma practice really involves it's not really
• it's also another meaning of the word dharma in original it has the implication of responsibility duty
• so the wider culture not responding but also dharma culture not responding buddhism dharma
• not responding but also dharma culture not responding buddhism dharma we are usually in the dharma you know
• not responding buddhism dharma we are usually in the dharma you know most people
• blessed very sweet warm kind people dharma people generally and often a lot of surveys and yet
• that why something in the culture it was the dharma was subsumed dragged along by something in the
• so i don't know if my my mindfulness even the dharma as it stands the dharma as it stands i don't know
• commodification he calls it commodification of western dharma is it being co-opted this is his words
• weeks ago was complaining about this and called it do not disturb dharma do not disturb dharma
• called it do not disturb dharma do not disturb dharma a friend went to uh conference of i
• an issue of suffering we would we would think that the dharma and buddhism is relevant because we talk about suffering
• addicted to our way of life and we're not exempt from that in the dharma there's something more fundamental uh
• free to question the dominant images and fantasies of of buddhism of dharma and if i feel or you feel that you or i
• there are other problems here in the dharma we tend to talk a lot about letting go of fantasy
• nothing to do with it so within the dharma there is not or i could look and say it does exist but
• gargantuan crises that we face right now you certainly get outdoors dharma wilderness dharma but it's kind of about
• you certainly get outdoors dharma wilderness dharma but it's kind of about being equanimous or calm in in nature or
• or whatever but is it morally wrong maybe i say in the dharma language it's good karma to help her but is it bad
• conceptions the views and assumptions that we have about the dharma and about practice and about the goal and the path
• is the cause fundamental dharma conceptions what are we actually talking about
• chalisa so these lists and concepts dharma concepts and we use these terms but actually they're like skeletons four
• what ones can we bring in but in the dharma culture as well and that's my world and that's what i want to address
• as far as i was when no one in in my dharma circle felt it was appropriate for a spiritual person to be commenting
• what he's mistaken is the dominant image in buddhism in dharma is not so much of meditation as entering into deep calm
• might allow my contribute to allowing the dharma to actually really offer something to the world