Dhammarato Dhamma

The Sangha UK #76 | 8.21.22

The Sangha discuss how dependent origination has developed over time, the power of repetition, and learning to use triggers and anchors as part of wisdom at the point of contact. #dependentorigination #triggers #anchors
Suttas mentioned in this discussion:
The UdānaThe Udana - part of the Khuddaka Nikāya - is composed of eight chapters (vagga) of ten discourses each. The chapter titles are:Bodhivagga (Awakening chapter)Mucalindavagga (King Mucalinda chapter)Nandavagga (Ven. Nanda chapter)Meghiyavagga (Ven. Meghiya chapter)Soṇavagga (Lay Follower Sona chapter)Jaccandhavagga (Blind From Birth chapter)Cullavagga (Minor chapter)Pāṭaligāmiyavagga (Pataligamiya chapter)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udānahttps://suttacentral.net/pitaka/sutta/minor/kn/ud
The Sutta NipataThe Sutta Nipata is also part of the Khuddaka Nikāyahttps://suttacentral.net/pitaka/sutta/minor/kn/snp
Other suttas mentionedhttps://suttacentral.net/dn15https://suttacentral.net/mn9https://suttacentral.net/mn38
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00:00:00 Dependent origination changed over time: old texts: Udāna, Sutta Nipata (DN 15, MN 9, MN 38)00:06:30 The power of repetition00:10:37 Resting places in paticcasamuppāda; people wake up when they see the dukkha00:13:14 The importance of the point of contact; triggers00:16:11 Learning discernment; pretend favourites00:21:13 What triggers behaviour? Phassa (contact); salāyatana: our understanding00:29:48 How to deal with something in a mundane setting; choosing how to feel00:41:03 Did the Buddha talk about trauma? “Sankhāra” could be translated as “trauma”00:46:49 Triggers and anchors can be used ignorantly or to our advantage: wisdom at the point of contact00:48:59 Stop controlling things, it’s exhausting00:50:51 We don’t have to worry about the future; creating anchors through repetition01:00:09 How to deal with people from different cultures and communication styles - stop!

The Sangha UK #75 | 8.17.22

The Sangha discuss the simplicity of the Dhamma and make analogies with scientific enquiry and the mindset of various professions. #buddhadhamma #scienceexperiment #investigation 
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00:00:00 The mind of a scientist and parallels with effective practice00:02:51 Analogy of a woodworker and an architect; understanding arising and passing away 00:11:07 Being blindfolded by craving, aversion, and the hindrances; waking up to the senses00:13:30 The symbol of justice is flawed; trying to fix the world from a position of fear00:15:17 Becoming entranced by a role; being an arbiter of justice and truth00:19:32 We cause our own dissatisfaction; throwing a tantrum; choosing dukkha-nirodha to recondition the mind00:25:07 The Ingram and Dhammarato Mahasi debate and gladdening the mind00:33:17 Ridiculous social conditioning; draining the swamp of unwholesome thoughts00:41:02 You win every battle you’re not a part of; wanting to conquer people00:43:34 It’s more important to make friends; right noble wisdom00:48:26 Whenever you remember; “every time” is a delusion; time is an emergent phenomenon 00:54:50 The teachings are simple - deceptively simple; see for yourself 00:58:10 Dhamma talks are like training wheels

Change | Robert C #28 | 8.14.22

Robert and Dhammarato talk about anatta, insights from Zen, competition, and change. #zen #anatta #change
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://suttacentral.net/mn38
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00:00:00 Anatta - no soul00:04:16 Zen insights00:06:12 Christianity is a form of atheism (Slavoj Žižek); Freud ‘Moses and Monotheism’; Jung ‘Answer to Job’00:12:08 ‘The cycle must go on’ the Buddha teaches to come out of that cycle00:13:34 Power and strength; coming out of competition; avoiding groups00:20:04 Gender differences in competition; lessons from society00:29:37 Back to anatta; the possibility of change; appearance; clothing; dress codes00:46:43 Zen emphasis on non-discrimination; causes and conditions; rebirth and reincarnation (MN 38)01:10:39 Nisargadatta Maharaj ‘I Am That’; seeing the cycle of feelings; life is intrinsically good01:20:12 Studying the Dhamma with intensity; magical thinking; samatha and vipassanā are not separate

Choosing Happiness | The Sangha UK #77 | 8.14.22

The Sangha discuss how Dhamma helps us to change the habits of mind from dukkha to sukkha using the analogy of the leading a horse from the world, to a pasture, to a corral, and finally into a stall. #fournobletruths #eightfoldpath #mantra
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://suttacentral.net/mn12https://suttacentral.net/mn19https://suttacentral.net/mn111
Dhammarato’s mantra videohttps://youtu.be/n7hae8VRy1g
itipi so bhagavā arahaṁ sammāsambuddho vijjācaraṇasampanno sugato lokavidū anuttaro purisadammasārathi, satthā devamanussānaṁ, buddho bhagavā’ti‘That Blessed One is perfected, a fully awakened Buddha, accomplished in knowledge and conduct, holy, knower of the world, supreme guide for those who wish to train, teacher of gods and humans, awakened, blessed.’
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00:00:00 Wanting happiness and choosing happiness00:03:50 If thoughts are unwholesome change them; don’t dig a dukkha hole before you get to step 1200:08:31 Three lifetimes: the immediate past, the immediate present moment, and the immediate future00:12:06 Wanting magical powers; magical belief systems; fear and wanting power00:26:03 Sukha -step 6 of ānāpānasati; the first minute of practice00:28:42 After the joy, confidence; how to spend time now (MN 111; MN 19)00:34:38 From first to second jhāna: how the mind is working, how good we feel; third and fourth jhāna; the end of perception and feeling00:38:28 Hindrances: whacking the cow; using the breathing00:43:26 Sati is training to be ready for the danger of engaging the world; friendliness; remembering safety & security00:48:17 Changing the habits of the mind; if fruitions exist you don’t live your life in them; cessation of thought and feeling00:55:30 From the world to a pasture; to a corral; to a stall; getting into a wholesome state is most of the work00:57:52 Mantras are best when they mean something (MN 12); any wholesome song will do

Places to Practice | The Sangha US #49 | 8.13.22

The Sangha talk about family and friendship and finding the best place to practice during each phase of life. #wat #bhikkhu #seclusion
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00:00:00 The family can be a good place to practice; becoming a bhikkhu; open wounds: āsava00:12:03 Western Buddhism and sporadic retreats00:15:17 Dogen’s advice to laypeople; an old and open path; Mullah Nasruddin00:26:34 Noble monarchs and officials; reform of the sangha; ordination: up to seven times00:36:48 Mini-seclusion in daily life; no distinction between ordination and lay life00:40:47 Finding community in the West; noble friends; the noble desert00:55:49 Enjoy the emptiness; enjoy your duties

How the Mind Works | Markus M #6 | 8.12.22

Markus and Dhammarato discuss how the Dhamma helps us out of the wrong lessons we learned as a child by explaining how the mind works.#dependentorigination #transactionalanalysis #fournobletruths 
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00:00 The OK corral; society teaches us to be losers; listen to the language you are using; Gestalt & Fritz Perls05:49 Wrong lessons we learn as a child; coming out of victimhood; rites of passage; GREB10:15 The relevance of the Buddha’s teaching: feeling good16:39 What the practice is all about: control19:29 How the mind works; feelings and attitude; mind is the forerunner24:04 Observing ourselves; sammā sankappa is a skill to be developed: attitude change28:21 How to stay out of unwholesome thoughts; dependent origination explains the second noble truth

Applied and Sustained | Scott #9, Laurent, Dean | 8.11.22

Scott, Dean, Laurent, and Dhammarato talk about the skills of entering first jhāna and re-entering it fromsecond jhāna. #jhana #mindfulnessofbreathing #samadhi 
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://sutacentral.net/mn19
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00:00 Peaks and plateaus; seeking highs; consistent wholesome thoughts06:37 Subtle unwholesome thoughts; using the breathing09:56 Three skills associated with first jhāna; sati; repetition of entry into first jhāna; applied thought14:00 Sustained thought15:06 The skill of coming out of first jhāna; going into jhāna16:31 The Middle Path; ordinary unwholesome thoughts are one extreme; higher jhāna are another extreme21:12 Unwholesome thoughts; the cowherd (MN 19); experiencing how good we feel; breathing & chanting; mantras37:02 Song lyrics as a corral; advaita; training to make the mind wholesome45:13 Working with the early parts of dependent origination; perception; creating a wholesome past48:35 Just using the present moment; the higher jhāna shows how the mind works; just look52:03 Coming out of first jhāna as an opportunity for skill development

Here Now | The Sangha UK #74 | 8.10.22

The Sangha discuss the hindrances, how Western misconceptions impede practice, Buddhism in society, the timelessness of the Dhamma, and the lawfulness of nature. #buddhadhamma #beinginthemoment #buddhiststory 
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://suttacentral.net/mn36https://suttacentral.net/mn38
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00:00:00 Arising and passing away; personality view; seeing the reality of things (MN 36, MN 38)00:13:44 The five hindrances; sati; wisdom at the point of contact00:18:46 Western insight meditation and concentration; separating samatha and  vipassanā00:21:05 The fiction of access concentration; samādhi as unification of mind00:23:29 The bad example of education00:27:30 Restlessness: perceiving things with greater clarity and greater subtlety; āyatana vs. fabrications00:33:18 Retreats and restlessness; Amaravati; going into nature; finding a state of comfort00:39:05 Dhammarato’s farmer story: fixing the fence; seeing restlessness00:44:16 Being around wise people on a daily basis; time to relax00:46:57 Permaculture and farming in a Buddhist setting; Sepp Holzer00:52:04 Integration of Buddhist institutions and the community; adjusting to the local culture00:56:25 The Buddha’s Dhamma as the science of experience; lawfulness; how dukkha arises

Knowledge & Deliverance | Michael #1 | 8.9.22

Michael and Dhammarato talk about the development of the foundational skills of practice from the noble eightfold path to the five faculties and ending with the seven factors of awakening. #nobleeightfoldpath #buddhadhamma #beinginthemoment 
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://suttacentral.net/an4.162https://suttacentral.net/mn48
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00:00:00 Fast or slow, hard or easy? (AN 4.162) Strong determination sitting in Goenka practice00:06:14 The five faculties; samādhi: the two types of concentration; skills to be developed00:10:14 Saddhā: confidence; the quality of attitude: sammā sankappa00:13:34 Investigation and sati00:17:17 Taking the effort to make a change00:20:35 GREB: Government, religion, education, and business; resisting change00:28:26 The factors of awakening; enlightenment: light (knowledge), heaviness (deliverance)00:42:32 Wholesome and unwholesome; past and future; right now… 00:56:34 Practice when you remember; sit down intentionally six times a day for ten minutes01:00:43 The first step (MN 48); the eightfold noble path01:11:26 Before (the noble eightfold path); now (balancing the factors); the end result (the seven factors of awakening)

Buddhadāsa, Nobility, and Lineage | The Sangha UK #73 | 8.7.22

The Sangha discuss the background and lineage of Bhikkhu Buddhadāsa and nobility in the context of Buddhism’s historical background. #buddhism #dhamma #buddhadasa 
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://www.suttacentral.net/mn48
Sanghanayok Somdet Phra Buddhaghosajarn (Buddhadāsa’s teacher)https://www.suanmokkh.org/articles/8
Prince Watchirayanawarorot / Manusyanagamanob (Supreme Patriarch Somdet Phramahasamanachao Kromphraya Vajirananavarorasa)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajirananavarorasa
Supreme Patriarchs of Thailand (Sangharaja)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Patriarch_of_Thailand
The Saṅghādisesahttps://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/vin/sv/bhikkhu-pati.html#sg
Santikarohttps://cloudmountain.org/profile/santikaro/
Emperor Ashokahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
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00:00 Marcus working at a wat; abbots and nobles10:02 Buddhadāsa’s teacher Somdet Phra Buddhaghosajarn; Supreme Patriarch Prince Vajirananavarorasa (‘The King and I’)14:06 The teaching has not been lost, just badly translated17:51 Achan Chah and Bhikkhu Buddhadāsa; Amaravati19:41 Buddhadāsa’s Saṅghādisesa in Bangkok; teaching the right thing to the wrong people; Santikaro32:23 Emperor Ashoka and the development of Buddhism; Third Buddhist Council38:06 Hunger and thirst for the Dhamma (MN 48)40:49 The Universe has been left unlocked42:47 The objective is to watch each step; a thicket of views; remember to look and make a change51:25 Become a child to enter the kingdom of heaven