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Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A) - (Roots into the Ground of Soul) 18 mentions

• teachers do it now and we've we've done this on our for a dharma sangha camp where there's a mature community of
• at some point in there in their history of their dharma practice and exposure to dharma teachings they formally took the
• of their dharma practice and exposure to dharma teachings they formally took the precepts with so-and-so teacher or so
• that's really important but if i think back i i heard my first dharma talk never had heard any dharma at all
• back i i heard my first dharma talk never had heard any dharma at all [music]
• and i would say this this these practices we don't need dharma practice they totally rest on the precepts so
• um to the precepts as the soulmaking dharma goes deeper or or we should say this what happens to one's relationship
• this what happens to one's relationship with ethics as the soulmaking dharma goes deeper
• talk about ethics and we have this at these ethical commitments in the dharma are there not gaps in them
• dominant and influential for a lot of dharma practitioners are ones of passivity and equanimity
• so what happens when we do soulmaking dharma everything gets stretched the archetypes get stretched so there is the
• hear maybe they just randomly pick a talk on dharma seed and start listening what the hell is this
• that's going on in the body usually typical or rather mainstream dharma can say whose is it and say it's anata it
• normal human way of functioning but in in the mainstream dharma approach um one of the one of the contemplations
• identify with it there's the possibility of a traditional dharma view of regarding it's not me not mine and then
• possible i think like all retreats um even a sort of mainstream dharma retreat we have to be careful about what
• such as jungle hillman nature do you think that soulmaking dharma offers a smoother or safer path
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The Image of Ethics (Part 1) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 18 mentions

• connection with soulmaking dharma and practice so it's just a snapshot now
• more deeply more wisely than i have done and develop the soulmaking dharma and uh in in lots of ways but also in in
• aspects of directions within soulmaking dharma and the others will also study other ethical
• um with respect to what i what i think what i now think soulmaking dharma might actually offer
• get very excited about soulmaking dharma and i almost find myself taking the other poll of like well you know
• forward or advocating of soulmaking dharma as possibly a really a really potent and
• an injection into the wider society not just soulmaking dharma practitioners so it's a little more positive as a a it
• ethical theories and seeing how soulmaking dharma and soulmaking ethical dharma might
• soulmaking dharma and soulmaking ethical dharma might supplier us with those needs
• so it's quite a big ask and also you know touch on this with buddha dharma as well just following the five precepts
• but if everyone was trained in soul making dharma practice and approaching and approaching ethical choices and and
• choose y over x if everyone was trained in soulmaking dharma and that approach to ethics
• that we're thinking about um from the soulmaking dharma practice and with all that implies about the
• dimensionality which we can get also through um the song making dharma practice and there's still this notion
• different ways maybe there's other ways apart from soulmaking dharma practice but certainly including by training and
• um through sensing with soul from the soulmaking dharma practice um that would be
• the kind of logos of logo in in in soul making dharma but then he doesn't like this at all
• there are provisional truths in science as there are in dharma and there's a whole journey there

Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get here?! (Part 4) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma... 18 mentions

• for for many of many many people um maybe even many dharma people and maybe in the culture
• um about that uh it's a lot easier to teach dharma um
• makes it easier when we teach dom or present something as dharma um when uh in the cases where we mix in
• um and assumptions in and and and package it all as quote dharma um for instance neuroscience or
• become absorbed or blended into quote dharma um that's a lot easier uh rarely does
• speak foreign or new to uh what we might call dharma um that when it's foreign new that
• this or it's like that or thinking that dharma concepts refer to realities um etc or
• um in our dharma and i was in your dharma in your practice and in your life
• fantasy and image is already involved is already involved in dharma and practice and life
• necessary for to galvanize um in relation to practice and dharma and to be inspired in life and have
• making or heroes that are not yet articulated in what we call dharma uh to me that seems
• enrich the psychology a little bit it's not just dharma in the dharma uh transmission in the dharma so because
• not just dharma in the dharma uh transmission in the dharma so because it's in the wider culture too
• you know something you've heard in relation to the dharma before i'm sure don't believe these teachings uh the
• it's not a matter of belief so find out regarding to dharma teachings and you've heard that before i'm sure if you've
• lot of people that's the attraction of the dharma over i say other religions is that message
• but also in relation to more um kind of conventional dharma teachings it's also um the case that with a little
• and continuing our sort of delineations here and and standard dharma etc um and eros eros we've already said is

The Meaning of Refuge - (New Year Retreat) 18 mentions

• sara language i go to refuge for the dharma sangang saranang go to refuge for the sangha and for many people
• take refuge not in these things but in the buddha the dharma the sangha and he had certain meanings in mind when he
• projected getting rid of something so the buddha dharma sangha they're said to be the exceptional refuge and all the
• so with all that and the buddha comes as three refugees buddha dharma sangha what does that mean
• the truth the dharma which they themselves have realized liberation depends on one's
• three refugees it's practice it's which is the dharma it's the dharma the second refuge the dharma meaning the teaching
• is the dharma it's the dharma the second refuge the dharma meaning the teaching certainly but dharma principally is
• refuge the dharma meaning the teaching certainly but dharma principally is practice and the realization that comes
• means the whole the whole path of practice the whole of the dharma it's very
• any teaching or teacher or doctrine or dharma that has the eightfold path in it that teaching that doctrine that
• rigidly and he just says if you want to know what the dharma is the totality of the dharma look at the fruits and if the
• know what the dharma is the totality of the dharma look at the fruits and if the fruits are peace
• that that is being taught or that that's being practiced that's the dharma that's the dharma it's quite simple lovely way
• being practiced that's the dharma that's the dharma it's quite simple lovely way of putting it
• in their practice when actually all one's hopes are placed in the dharma in dharma practice
• one's hopes are placed in the dharma in dharma practice not in career not in the promise of
• the practice is really at the core at the core so buddha dharma dharma as practice and the last one sangha sangha
• they're not courage to take risks in and kind of with the dharma this generosity seems like a risk it's

Heat and the Material - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 18 mentions

• like this particular dharmaculture or that particular dharma culture that's religious culture or that secular
• who are attracted to the soulmaking dharma and this kind of paradigm are people who let's say tend to uh
• some of those people um the the soulmaking dharma will uh be very attractive and um and and make
• and of course not everyone that's attracted to the soulmaking dharma is of that kind of
• with or um or by the dharma itself that that's kind of preaching this sort of even
• indoctrination unquestioned indoctrination from from dharma teaching that i know i'm feeling this whatever it
• was in this case but it might be sometimes a shadow of dharma teaching that automatically puts anger in
• excuse me of soulmaking practice and dharma it may be one of the foundations
• um of imaginal practice and soulmaking dharma this britain could have lots of images but it may be in certain
• domains of psychology spirituality soul work all that dharma where there's a dependency one way in other words
• because i've engaged in good work i'm a dharma teacher or i'm a psychologist or i'm a whatever whatever
• because it's really stretching the the dharma paradigm if you like and you could say breaking it depending
• um i said to my soul to soul in general to to the dharma to our culture etc i mean that was enormously fertile in
• or in not always but but quite commonly and certainly in dharma settings we want uh we're taught that
• the emotions so we're not overwhelmed or run by an emotions also in the dharma we don't say so much the self is because we
• in uh imaginal practice soulmaking dharma on the other hand so these kinds of ways of looking uh where we or the
• um and maybe sometimes even more rare in some dharma cultures where power is too close to the possibility and the abuse
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Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing - (Meditation on Emptiness) 17 mentions

• such a time we're in a room someone's giving a dharma talking i am listening etc this is the floor all this is the
• terms and that's often how it's used in dharma circles nowadays it's come to me the exact opposite of what it originally
• practitioners and and in in the way the dharma comes to us very easy to
• and we hear this it's it's present in the dharma culture as saying see that everything's changing and
• the way we see the kind of project of the dharma so i can't remember who he quotes and
• culture today there's quite a big attraction to and our dharma culture as well so talking about dharma cultures
• attraction to and our dharma culture as well so talking about dharma cultures and talked already about there are
• and talked already about there are different dharma cultures present and it's quite interesting to move between
• so there is from most of us in our culture and in our dharma maybe not in our culture but certainly in our dharma
• culture and in our dharma maybe not in our culture but certainly in our dharma culture
• of the very interesting things i do as a teacher is participate in dharma discussions not just hear about
• privilege of being involved in a lot of dharma discussions over the years um it's quite common again nowadays to
• uh well there's different there's what's called different dharma doors um that's an interesting quest there's different
• juggling is my way to liberation and even in one dharma discussion that i was invited to at a sitting group um we
• and remember coming when it was a while ago uh here giving a dharma talk and talking about
• rising as uh another teacher dharma kirti last night we were chandra kirito and that's
• of understanding he said deep vacha deep vacha is this dharma this truth this teaching

Love and the Emptiness of Things - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 17 mentions

• with those who are further advanced on the path love is based on dharmas and for those who have seen say deeply
• with those who are further advanced on the path love is based on dharmas and for those who have seen deeply into
• it means with kindness and compassion and what is a dharma what does this mean love is based on donors directed to
• love is based on donors directed to dharmers a dharma has a lot of different meanings in in the teachings
• something arising in awareness is a dharma so whatever that is a body sensation a thought an intention a mood
• a moment of samadhi whatever it is compassion they're all dharmas they're all dharmas
• compassion they're all dharmas they're all dharmas so it's just a thing in awareness a
• staying so an experience a phenomena a dharma stays in consciousness for a while
• it's really fine this is one option in in the wealth of dharma options there are and one may take to it or may not
• but it can be as has been said that things dharma's experiences phenomena may soften they soften their name their
• things as they are which is a very well-worn phrase in the dharma things as they are and the assumption is that
• it's very clearly but you could say relationship with objects dharma's experience phenomena relationships are
• and you know there's a beauty of that there's a beauty of dharma excitement and sometimes we get so excited that we
• inside out upside down on their head that's how radical the dharma is and begin to see
• clearly in dharma terms what does it mean to see more more deeply and more clearly it
• so if not through this avenue through other dharma avenues we can open this up in a very real way that begins to have a
• this space itself what some people call dharma data or some people call it rigpa or you know a lot of different charged

Blessing Life - The Power of the Generous Heart - (Unbinding the Heart) 16 mentions

• and that goes across the board for lay dharma practitioners in the west so
• generosity because sometimes in the dharma world it's almost as if a person might even have been meditating for a
• or at least not given the same emphasis and weight in the culture in the dharma culture but something that has the
• and then the third level is generosity in terms of the dharma the giving of the dharma
• in terms of the dharma the giving of the dharma so we could break it down as well to
• challenging for you deep dharma teachings any deep spiritual teachings
• dharmically speaking from the point of view dharma we see the world wrongly
• biological level but at another level dharma teaching will say well
• using the status that i have in the world and stinginess as to the dharma which means being unwilling to share
• which means being unwilling to share one's knowledge of the dharma so these deep happiness as he said will
• just just went this is a general dharma point now why is it that insights don't get cemented
• that's a really really important question in the dharma why is it that insights don't get cemented and what is
• it's like the dharma the deep dharma is kind of knocking
• the dharma the deep dharma is kind of knocking knocking you know words like that
• sometimes i feel that the whole of the dharma teachings are contained in generosity and the teachings on
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The Image of Ethics (Part 4) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 16 mentions

• some of what soulmaking dharma and sensing with solar practice sensing the soul might
• sort of given in history and we looked at how soulmaking dharma um
• element of the imaginal but in soulmaking dharma in contrast to this protestant teaching
• anything in soulmaking dharma interesting if you reflect on this we have this grace as an
• impossible views so again soulmaking dharma um what we've done there's an attempt to
• thinkers and lots of things so again soulmaking dharma comes in is is born in that in that kind of crucible
• possible through soulmaking data is that dharma is that we can in practice and and in concept conceptually
• can we integrate shame and guilt into our soulmaking dharma conceptual framework into our view
• approach ethics in a in a way that soulmaking dharma is really integrated into that approach
• really embrace that whole domain with the soulmaking dharma exception
• sensations or reducing pain or whatever soulmaking dharma um should before it's practicing right
• or if we think about pali canon uh buddha dharma and the kind of cosmology of karma of
• let's say to what we've got in the soulmaking dharma what can possibly open out for us in soulmaking dharma
• soulmaking dharma what can possibly open out for us in soulmaking dharma practice
• also the conceived purpose of life think about polycanon buddha dharma purpose of life is very much the purpose
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Concepts, Views, Reality - (Meditation on Emptiness) 15 mentions

• know if that makes sense it actually it profoundly influences the way the dharma has arrived to the west because we've
• what i just said kind of have a sense of that the dharma is the point of the dharma and where we're going is to kind
• that the dharma is the point of the dharma and where we're going is to kind of go with the flow of things that's
• philosophers and later actually have found their way into western dharma very big is going with the flow etc like that
• and has a notion of not knowing in the dharma being over elevated oh it's like it's almost like a place
• highlands and um and we would have dharma discussions almost every day and at one point uh one of the
• have to come to a conclusion when we have a dharma discussion which is a fair enough point
• and that's what we call delusion and that delusion is the seat in in dharma i'm saying that's the seeds of our
• what it was i was invited to a sitting group to facilitate a dharma discussion i can't actually remember what it was
• more significantly and what i see now in terms of western dharma is and i'm sure even not everyone in this room would
• agree with that statement it's no longer a given in dharma circles i've run into a lot of people who don't believe in the
• what was sort of edifice root edifice of dharma teachings actually gets changed and i see this going on as the dharma is
• dharma teachings actually gets changed and i see this going on as the dharma is taking birth in the west but i just find
• lovely and important you know the meeting of psychotherapy and dharma i think is really important and
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