Random Dharma

Can't the culture have an effect on the potential for insight, i.e. help people become 'accident prone'?

That's ironic they did that since my experience from going to wisdom 2.0 last march was that the whole thing was basically about being with guilt. Been my experience in a few buddhist/mindfulness circles. The guilt industrial complex?

Anyone have some recorded dharma talk recommendations?

I've been listening to Ken McLeod's Unfettered Mind (Nuts and Bolts of Practice) podcast a lot lately. Each episode has a number of questions, so it's consumable in bite-sized pieces. The questions range from simple to complex, and I find Ken's answers highly insightful and surprisingly deep no matter what the question.

Also, on the Unfettered Mind website, there are a lot of longer series to choose from: http://www.unfetteredmind.org/podcasts/

nadav wrote: Anyone have some recorded dharma talk recommendations?

Could you say more about the context? For you, for others, for elaboration on a particular topic?

For me. No particular agenda — I guess anything you've enjoyed lately.

Hey Chris, I'm a little curious -- what about that non-buddhist movement interests you?

What If Awareness Isn’t Real? - Scott Kiloby

kiloby.com/what-if-awareness-isnt-real/

Not quite dharma, but thought provoking:

You're forgetting the turtles. All the way down. Edit: replying to Chris.

Nice Adyashanti quotation:

Q. “It seems that suffering is the source of the desire for liberation. Is it the embracing of suffering, then, that is the key to liberation?”

Adya: “If by embracing suffering you mean to not avoid it, then yes, embrace it, but do not indulge in it. Embrace the suffering so that you can go beyond it. Ask yourself: Who suffers? Who embraces?”

From The Impact of Awakening - What is Liberation? - Chapter 9

Beautiful poem by Hafiz :

Now is the time.

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God?

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child’s training wheels
To be laid aside
When you can finally live
with veracity and love.

Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

That this is the time
For you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is Sacred.

SOURCE: Science and Non-Duality post on Facebook.

I don't know if I posted this already, but it's dharma from the world of cooking (CIA= culinary institute of America):

“...But practiced at its highest level, mise-en-place says that time is precious. Resources are precious. Space is precious. Your self-respect and the respect of others are precious. Use them wisely. Isn't that a philosophy for our time?

"The world is a giant gerbil wheel right now," Lipuma at the CIA says. "I think if we just became a little bit more organized, a little bit more mise-en-place, [understand] what we really need and only do what we really need, I think we'll have more time — time for what's important," he says.

Nice Nisargadatta quotation from I Am That, Chapter 47:

Realize that whatever you think yourself to be is just a stream of events; that while all happens, comes and goes, you alone are, the changeless among the changeful, the self-evident among the inferred. Separate the observed from the observer and abandon false identifications.

Tom Otvos wrote: "you alone are, the changeless among the changeful"

Really?

Depends whether you're a Buddhist or a Vedantin

What is the Buddhist version? "You are not"?

Hi Jake,

The Buddhist way of negating things that might be taken as I/me/self is: This is not mine, this is not I, this is not myself. It is contained in the Anatta-lakkhana Sutta here: www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.059.nymo.html and is sprinkled throughout other suttas as well.

If you wish to get familiar with those teachings, Access to Insight is a great resource: www.accesstoinsight.org/index.html

Take Care & Best Wishes with your practice!

-Tina