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Discontent rumbles violently through our society. Many troublesome conflicts frighten and bedevil us, and forces around us and within us scheme to arouse negative emotions. We absorb much of that and recycle it within us. How may we cool our discontents and conflicts? This talk will explore possibilities for how Buddhist teachings can contribute to the reduction of our inner and outer anxieties and conflicts.
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The Middle-Way is a term the Buddha used to describe the Eight-Fold Path of practice that can release us from needless and neurotic suffering. Originally "middle way" has meant staying away from opposites and extremes in which we lose balance, become mired, and end up suffering again and again. Let's ponder on some of the opposites that pull on us like Scylla and Charybdis. How might we chart out life's courses such that the play of opposites remains...
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"In the spiritual life, and especially in meditation, we cultivate awareness that enables us to see more deeply and be less reactive with the vicissitudes of life. To facilitate this practice we also need to develop samadhi, a single-tasking or one pointed concentration. This ability to focus attention requires that we learn to recognize and gradually overcome the many moods and distracting thoughts that are a hindrance to samadhi."--Publisher.
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Our thoughts, conceptions, theories, and beliefs often drift into "thickets of views" that can lead to confusion and rigidity. One way to ground ourselves amidst the modern conceptual bombardment is to cultivate mindful inquiry of basic experiential realities: the sense doors, sensory experience, and how they feel. Wisdom can arise when we see these things clearly, and we understand the limitations of all those concepts, theories, and beliefs.
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Spirituality and worldliness are often treated as a dichotomy. In contrast to shunning one for the sake of the other, "engaged spirituality" sees caring for society and the world as an expression of wisdom and compassion. Santikaro's discussion considers Buddhist teachings that support this approach to holistic and integrated spirituality.
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The Buddha offers this advice: "In seeing, simply see; in hearing, simply hear; in experiencing, simply experience; and in knowing , simply know." Resting in this core of mindfulness, we neither reject our sensory experience nor get lost in it, we stop making up distracting narratives and reacting egotistically, we end the fantasy of Me and Mine.
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Meditation and spiritual practice cultivate skillful attentiveness within all aspects of life, along with a deepening inquiry into what is actually going on. Many of our views are based on beliefs arising from habit and muddled motivation, so we must ask ourselves whether each of our beliefs is valid. Buddhist teachings advise ongoing reflection to achieve this purpose. Explore the crucial role of inquiry within the spiritual path as we learn to pay...
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