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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

The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 12 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
• now as we have more psychotherapy um imbuing dharma teachings or a lot of insight meditation teachings but still
• from some especially um of a more secular persuasion within the dharma i'm a secular agenda within the dharma that
• secular persuasion within the dharma i'm a secular agenda within the dharma that almost view the whole point or one of
• fantasy an image of the buddha of the dharma of the history um what ninja calls the glorification of
• core and at the at the basis of a lot of contemporary dharma as well as many other spiritual traditions nowadays
• acknowledge uh fantasy fancy buddha fancy of dharma fancy of history all of that
• beginning and again uh you know dharma circles is so common nowadays if we're talking
• some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings some philosophies in the west
• uh whether it's self or love or the divine also dharma there's an undefined ability to it that allows a a an endless
• for any of these concepts self-love divine dharma etc etc anything that matters deeply to us

Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 2) - (Vajra Music) 12 mentions

• kind of strand within the soulmaking dharma within the practices some of what we're saying this set of
• it may be especially common in certain ways in some dharma cultures this is the development why exercises
• and can we we rest our teaching as dharma teachings is set dharma teachings within the dharma
• dharma teachings is set dharma teachings within the dharma teachings of sila of ethics
• direction of what you want with respect to soulmaking dharma and also what you want
• like in our culture this is a in our dharma culture this would be a very odd thing the kind of little exam where you
• have to just do it on your own and you assess or you could do it with a dharma friend
• recently whether it's even rarer in some dharma circles so i can
• and the sort of exam situation vary unusual in our in our dharma tradition of course in other traditions it it's
• and not at all what they associate with spirituality or dharma or anything like that
• if you were to ask me um looking back over my dharma practice and
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Sila and Soul (Part 7) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 12 mentions

• in that system and in some understandings of the dharma i would say that's a similar thing that all the
• even within one day sometimes now within the dharma you do get teachings about balancing different
• what they are um dharma which i investigation of dhamma's investigation of mental
• reality depending on how you translate dharma the investigative quality the varia the persistence effort
• meditation tradition less so in some other contemporary dharma traditions where i would place a value to it
• also body of dhammas dharmakaya body of dharmas meaning body of attributes or mental qualities or we could say virtues
• um so one translation of dharma catches as a body of of quality the body of dharma
• so one translation of dharma catches as a body of of quality the body of dharma is a body of virtues which actually
• one way of thinking about it one way also tying it in with buddha dharma notions of buddhahood and notions of of
• on me i cannot fulfill that at the same time as being a dharma teacher for instance and plenty plenty others and
• the whole movement of sila in buddha dharma originally taught because it simplifies our life
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Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 12 mentions

• kind of box of what was up to then my understanding of dharma etc and any other understanding i'd heard of dharma
• understanding of dharma etc and any other understanding i'd heard of dharma at the time
• off the table sweep clear the table so to speak metaphorically of any dharma preconceptions that one has regarding
• and she'd done you know a fair bit of dharma practice and we had worked in the past with vadana and watching craving
• helpful so this is kind of standard dharma teaching we went into this um and seeing that if we can kind of
• what a study of modern physics could bring to a dharma understanding in the ways it could open up certain parallels
• putting in the other order this time first one clears away whatever dharma preconceptions that make one uh dismiss
• fits into a narrower how it fits with a narrower dharma understanding etc or dharma understandings and there's more
• narrower dharma understanding etc or dharma understandings and there's more freedom that will come out of that and
• to hearing very often a sort of basic dharma understanding of be with what he is except what's happening and although
• um we have a limited conception of what the dharma is it's just saying be with what is and accept
• as someone described their understanding to me years ago of what dharma was essentially

Dukkha and Emotions in Soulmaking Practice - (Roots into the Ground of Soul) 12 mentions

• unrecognized and of course in certain contexts for instance a dharma context where anger is basically it goes in the
• dukkah through the many uh traditional dharma pathways that are available and there's a dissipation of dukkha and
• yeah um so even within traditional dharma i feel
• move so in in typical dharma or rather in in mainstream dharma practice that would be
• so in in typical dharma or rather in in mainstream dharma practice that would be one one of my suggestions you know a
• sense bigger than the emotion also in mainstream dharma what we what we tend towards is let go of the
• um and some of us are thoroughly trained in in dharma practice let letting go of the south
• um the mindfulness in in a sort of traditional dharma that the mindfulness instruction one of the instructions
• whose is it and again typical dharma is it's nobodies it's anata
• nobodies it's anata soulmaking dharma might be it belongs to soul belongs to the world soul
• bigger than i am the god of dharma is bigger than i am the god of teaching is bigger than i am
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Aspects of Working with Desire - (Day Retreat, London Insight) 12 mentions

• approaching something like that with with the dharma tools there's many ways of approaching now
• spend a little time looking at it from the more traditional dharma perspective craving and we did talk about this
• that comes in the dharma we say you know we say there's five aggregates and six senses
• bigger sense given a lot of time to dharma service a lot of time to practice etc
• these two pools towards service towards dharma service in particular and towards me and a
• wipe aside assumptions that might be coming even from a dharma perspective typical dharma assumption might be that
• coming even from a dharma perspective typical dharma assumption might be that desire is what we call a chilesa it's
• maybe assumptions that might be coming from the dharma foreign
• sometimes when it's dharma talk or something it's actually a bit better to have the fresh air to keep
• opened up to not be about him so dharma we tend to think and maybe you've heard this especially those of
• something very curious is going on if you're from if you've been from a dharma background this is this should be very
• especially if you're from a traditional dharma background it doesn't fit that easily into the teachings

What is Awakening? (Part 3) - (The Mirrored Gates) 12 mentions

• particular in mind when she said it it was just in midflow in a dharma talk she she was talking about something so that
• excuse me set within the context of a dharma and in our case buddha dharma but it
• set within the context of a dharma and in our case buddha dharma but it could be a hindu dharma or something
• and in our case buddha dharma but it could be a hindu dharma or something awakening is a concept and a vision or
• an image set within the context of a dharma a tradition in other words is set within a vision and i an idea of
• um and that constitutes the the tradition of buddha dharma or whatever um
• so in the modern west um we bring inevitably and dharma reaches here in you know sometime in the
• or or changes of direction to what we quote receive of the dharma which as i said was already a kind of
• ancestors so when the so-called dharma meets a new culture there's all kinds of tearings
• shapes a lot of the the flavor of the dharma that then takes root in the west and how and and what we keep and what we
• of creation in in the modern west as the dharma comes into the west and and there's this kind of mixing
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The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3) - (Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception) 12 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
• now as we have more psychotherapy imbuing dharma teachings or a lot of insight meditation teachings but still
• some especially um of a more secular persuasion within the dharma i'm a secular agenda within the dharma that
• persuasion within the dharma i'm a secular agenda within the dharma that almost view the whole point or one of
• fantasy an image of the buddha of the dharma of the history um what ninja calls the glorification of
• core and at the basis of a lot of contemporary dharma as well as many other spiritual traditions nowadays
• acknowledge uh fantasy fancy buddha fancy dharma fancy of history all of that
• beginning and again uh you know dharma circles is so common nowadays if we're talking
• some versions of the idea of buddha nature in in buddha dharma teachings some philosophies in the west
• uh whether it's self or love or the divine also dharma there's an undefined ability to it that allows a a an endless
• for any of these concepts self love divine dharma etc etc anything that matters deeply to us

Sensing with Soul (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 11 mentions

• um and you'll know that the classical buddha dharma counts the mind uh whether it's thinking or imagining or
• um i think it was in the talk image mythos dharma in the first part of that talk
• of um teachings of bear attention that used to be quite common in the dharma world at least
• um so and then within buddha dharma you can also see how that word means really
• um and it's fine you know according to buddha dharma if there's a certain level of mindfulness just a basic level of
• mindfulness that's focused through some or other lens of a dharma concept so for example
• um sense contact looked at through the the dharma lens of the um sixth sense spheres
• words focus narrowly according to this dharma lens there's a second way and and that has the effect the skill in that is
• so even the idea of bear attention as a sort of dharma concept becomes a dharma lens
• of life is actually embedded in buddha dharma and the centrality of the four noble truths which concern themselves
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