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Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 15 mentions

• was described as a triumph of um of of dharma practice this was the um the fruit of his dharma practice that
• um of of dharma practice this was the um the fruit of his dharma practice that here was his own son or daughter
• that um in in the dharma and certainly something i've employed myself as well
• um dharma-esque if you like um
• from science or from sometimes from dharma contacts or the idea that imagination plays no role has
• is not really into a kind of way of practicing dharma and way of meditating that has any kind of
• so this is also interesting in how it translates to dharma so for a kind of dharma that essentially
• translates to dharma so for a kind of dharma that essentially um was again what i might call
• um was again what i might call existentialist dharma but essentially kind of equates practice with
• impermanence are existential predicament that dharma practice is essentially coping with that
• coping with that that's the view of dharma there's very little very little there's a little bit
• i would read the pali canon as uh insisting rather that the dharma is kind of predicated on the difficult practice
• and some modern interpretation of the dharma just say no dom perez just coping with this obvious reality of the
• to these kind of ways we conceive of dharma when
• um these are things that we care about they're wrapped up in dharma practice what does it mean to know what does it

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 1) - (Vajra Music) 14 mentions

• whatever that analogy might be in soul making dharma we need these these really big structural pieces
• was about inertia and our inertia as practitioners as students of the dharma but also as
• listening can we listen to a dharma talk structurally or read a book
• where where's the inertia for me in relation to dharma practice how and what i practice in relationship
• from the beginning a presentation of the dharma that didn't didn't actually present the dharmas much more than that
• dharma that didn't didn't actually present the dharmas much more than that um
• so that's what she had been taught the dharma was and you know anyway so she was trained in
• they're doing certain fantasies the idea because obviously the dharma has to do with liberation and freedom and
• emphasized that we could we could we could pick other other dharma areas emptiness or whatever it should just
• and i wouldn't be giving this talk that there wouldn't be a dharma teacher but um
• being a an improvising jazz guitarist there are many that go to make up dharma practice there's lots in there and
• soulmaking time practice so when we come to song making dharma practice when we come to wanting to live
• uh not opened to me terms in my practice to my uh to my soulmaking dharma practice but also to my life and my life
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No Self, No World - (IMS Forest Refuge) 14 mentions

• the be all and end all of the whole dharma it's like that everything should go there everything should be about that
• what's always fundamental that always the fundamental question in the dharma is not self or not self or this or that
• practitioner who is skilled in the dharma skilled in dhamma does not regard the five aggregates in any of these ways
• from uh defining yourself in any way it even is quite popular nowadays in dharma to define the self as the self is the
• at the beginning that's the fundamental question in the dharma that's the fundamental question which
• this that's the fundamental dharma question and then another level of question is
• the taking a step back again it's not that in the dharma in our practice we're trying to get rid of all
• avenue what do i see as i push and pull there's dharma language as i cling less what happens to the sense itself
• so what do we see we see that the self we say in dharma language is empty it's dependent on the push and pull
• but you know the one of the deep gifts of dharma pranks actually turning that on its head
• pure awareness putting a lot in this dharma talk i hope it's not overwhelming but yeah we can
• between the extreme of existence and non-existence i teach the dharma which is the middle way the dharma which is
• non-existence i teach the dharma which is the middle way the dharma which is the middle way
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Sila and Soul (Part 9) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 14 mentions

• take that out even of in terms of how many dharma people really take up the real seriously a real movement to
• only you know a small portion of even dharma people soulmaking us so much in terms of of us
• the whole thrust and intention primary thrust and attention the dharma to reduce suffering
• um it's regarded as a value in buddha dharma but it's as a value it's subordinate to and dependent on the
• question about ethics the the emphasis in buddha dharma on reducing suffering and that that principle way of
• certainly in devon where i live there's very suddenly really a lot of dharma people uh
• a dramatic change almost black and white um among dharma folks maybe in other countries it's starting
• i i don't actually know but only some of that is because of soulmaking dharma teachings
• together for this sudden ignition of the wildland in in the dharma community of the wildfire in the dharma community
• wildland in in the dharma community of the wildfire in the dharma community is it the last ipcc report that was much
• action needs to happen is it that most of these dharma people who are getting involved now are
• as i've said before when talking about buddha dharma talking about awakening and there's a
• um that's become i think in western dharma sending like meat get a sense from and hear from
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Practising with Death and Dying - (In Psyche's Orchard) 14 mentions

• and sometimes whether it's in poetry or whether it's in the dharma you know this emphasis on impermanence can have a sort
• to last forever in time but often nowadays even in the dharma and there is there is this kind of
• much more in the wider culture less in the dharma culture of course is a kind of eternalism
• um as it pertains to as it emerges from soulmaking dharma and sensing the soul practices and openings so what is our
• through this with the support of soulmaking dharma but with with the support and through the
• series of talks and all the soulmaking dharma talks is really based on experience you can hear that
• in a very uh often stressed in some kinds of dharma inside dharma as well very the central
• the other viewers against typical because some some streams of dharma um there's no self really there's no
• what does make me clean mean soulmaking dharma make yourself clean means means purity
• translating to buddhism the way the dharma kaya it kind of takes care of us with providence that's what that words
• overall kind of scope of soulmaking dharma practice there will come a time inevitably where
• human person is not personhood you know a lot about the dharmas about deconstructing the sense of self and all
• mainstream secular culture and the culture of buddha dharma spiritual circles
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Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 13 mentions

• as an approach to emptiness and certainly has approach to dharma the always-looking approach of time is quite
• whatever um even within the buddha dharma contacts of course and they bring
• um and so people uh thinking about dharma or teaching dumb or thinking about their own practice will very
• 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
• moment on what reduces suffering and soulmaking dharma our choice is based on what opens up the soulmaking
• while to actually look among for example among dharma teachers um those who were the ones who
• engaged practices in other words their conception and practice of the dharma extends to engagement with social
• similarities at least with soulmaking dharma teaching similar do we really need to take care that both
• understand emptiness before we practice soulmaking dharma because otherwise we're going to reify we're going to
• practice emptiness my dharma friends are into it or they say it's the it's the best thing
• in the in the history of the buddha dharma there's a there's a sense of the outrage
• repeatedly through different streams of dharma and different styles of teaching but not with a lot of
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The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) - (Practising the Jhānas) 13 mentions

• some maps of the dharma it is but even that is becoming actually quite
• but even that is becoming actually quite rare in the dharma world um even any kind of importance given to
• actually getting rarer and rarer in in a lot of dharma worlds i think in the insight meditation world certainly
• elaborations that material in talks about soulmaking in soulmaking dharma talks because it's it's actually woven
• emptiness get used in a lot of different ways in the dharma even in the insight meditation world you'll find that we
• implications reality all of that together is is rare in the dharma world um i don't it it's not like you you can
• mesh that well so it's rare in the dharma this this way of talking about these things in this
• genres and and placing them coherently in a much bigger picture of the dharma a picture which makes sense of a lot of
• possibilities including soulmaking dharma but even without soulmaking diamond
• conveyed in any um actually any dharma teaching let alone just insight meditation teaching
• non-philosophically usually so whatever kind of dharma we're talking about not just insight meditation that's
• the process of unfabricating so for all these dharmas there is a practice that involves
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The Theatre of Selves (Part Three) - (November Solitary) 13 mentions

• the usual way we think of uh path practice dharma existence and there's kind of bus stops on on the way so you
• if as i said in in i think the first talk if my conception of the dharma is just about being mindful being with what
• just about being mindful being with what is etc if that's how i see the dharma then all this talk of images and
• to sound ridiculous because i've got my dharma in a box that assumes a lot about reality and what the
• assumes a lot about reality and what the purpose of the dharma is and all is is going to seem pointless and that's
• to actually reframe the whole way we're looking at the dharma and look at it in in a more open i think a deeper way one
• at it in terms of emptiness and ways of looking the whole dharma is a dance of ways of looking skillful ways of looking
• neuronal biology or whatever it is but even the dharma as we usually know it can become an idol a conceptual
• or to see this but it's true of the buddha and the dharma i think a buddha has come into this
• even this style of dharma that's kind of existentialist if we call it that
• at it with from whether it's from a dharma direction or from a scientific direction you start from scientific you
• primary everything's resting on that or of the dharma or of awakening what is my fantasy of awakening what is the fantasy
• so what would we say that the sort of mindfulness-based approach to to dharma is that the danger is of realism

What is Awakening? (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 13 mentions

• of epithet for that is um his or her dharma eye was opened there was the opening of the dharma eye
• um his or her dharma eye was opened there was the opening of the dharma eye at that point and it's a kind of ebit
• there for a stream entry i think opening of a dharma what does that mean i'm not aware of any place where it's actually
• explained exactly what that means the opening of the dharma eye i i wonder might it be any of these uh
• um might it also be one of the dharm it's like what's central in the dharma when the buddha talks about after waking
• ambiguous what he's talking about at that point what he means by this dharma that's hard to see hard to attain etc
• um but at least part of it in that quote um says this dharma something something namely dependent name
• that's at least all of it so opening the dharma eye might be just because of um
• kind of thing of of his sense of what the dharma is then perhaps opening the dharma eye don't know what it might mean
• the dharma is then perhaps opening the dharma eye don't know what it might mean but might it mean this
• i i guess i would say um what does this dharma i mean it it means knowing the unfabricated
• modern teravado nepali canon inspired dharma um sometimes people report and they
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Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1) - (Path of the Imaginal) 13 mentions

• oneself in the path in practice also within the dharma different dharma traditions and other spiritual
• the past in what we call papuncture in the dharma tradition is the mind spinning
• you might use very occasionally in your dharma practice a kind of interesting technique using images maybe
• seeing and conceiving of practice seeing and conceiving dharma and what that means to you seeing and
• what in the service of self-development fine in the service of standard dharma practice fine in the service of maybe
• existence and also the conceptions of dharma so part of my deeper one of my deeper
• different uh conception of existence of dharma of practice of the world opening up
• practice or we might even call imaginal dharma and one you can recognize some of this
• suffering which is central to the dharma as most people would conceive most people would
• or image range of the dharma for them so for example the stranger images the more
• that's not that's not the fantasy flavor of dharma that a person has entertained up to now and that
• we regard for ourselves as the dharma our path and our practice and everything
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