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Dharma Talks
given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2018-03-28
Things Are Not What They Appear 4: The Emptiness of Self
59:18
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Donald Rothberg
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After a review of our first three sessions, exploring three ways that “things are not as they appear,” we explore how there is typically a sense that we are given a world of solid, separate individual beings and objects . We focus here on the counter-understanding related to selves and beings, that the nature of the self is “empty,” as developed in the teaching of anattā or not-self.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2018-03-14
Things Are Not As They Appear 2: Examining the Personal and Collective Lenses of Perception
64:01
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Donald Rothberg
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We review some of the main themes covered in the first session on this theme, in the context of a series of talks on five ways that “things are not as they appear.” We first examine in more depth some ways that we see through the lens of the personal self. We then explore how we also see through the lens of our social conditioning, particularly focusing, on this morning when students are walking out of their schools and universities to point to the need to respond to gun violence, on ways that we don’t see, for various reasons, many of the roots of gun violence clearly.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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