Greetings, Friendlies.:) Have you ever noticed how some parts of you want to deeply engage with the world—and other parts want to control it? Classically we might identify the one as a kind of Buddha-nature and the other as the work of Māra. McGilchrist’s view of hemisphere lateralization [1] suggests that these two views of […]
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This is one of a series of transcripts of talks I have found particularly helpful. This talk was made available by Audio Dharma; the talk is available here: Metta as a Path to Awakening (Part 1). AudioDharma.org 0:00 The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, please visit our website at […]
This is one of a series of transcripts of talks I have found particularly helpful. This talk was made available by Audio Dharma; the talk is available here: Metta as a Path to Awakening (Part 1). Insight Meditation Center 0:00 The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, please visit […]
MN 139, on avoiding conflict, could be divided into three themes: cultivating oneself, communicating with others, and seeking out good influences in one’s life. I didn’t catch this at first, but now I see in this second theme, Communicating With Others, Gotama encouraging us to speak in such a way that we allow our interlocutors […]
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