Dhammarato Dhamma

What is Wisdom at the Point of Contact? | The Sangha UK #6 | 6.30.22

The Sangha discuss Parker’s visit to a wat and the centrality of dependent origination in understanding wisdom at the point of contact. #dependentorigination #vipassana #beinginthemoment
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00:00:00 Parker’s visit to a Thai wat00:10:12 What is a noble? Understanding the Dhamma00:15:29 Suffering vs. dissatisfaction; dukkha, dukkha-nirodha00:20:25 Vipassanā, deconstructing experience; separate consciousness00:23:39 Feelings not emotions; sensations in the body00:25:12 The centrality of seeing dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda); causes and conditions00:31:59 Changing information processing; wisdom at the point of contact; a mind fit for work00:38:30 Data; viññāna and salāyatana00:43:23 The problem of communication; ānāpānasati; hindrances; the importance of wholesome thoughts00:53:24 What is wisdom at the point of contact? Stop and look, change your attitude01:01:04 Relaxation and reaction time; the intellectual level is not enough

Instant Gratification | Cathal #1, Eno | 6.30.22

Cathal, Eno, and Dhammarato talk about resistance to feeling good, the rule of delayed gratification, and learning to have wholesome thoughts right here, right now. #delayedgratification #instantgratification #beinginthemoment 
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00:00 Repetition is a major part of the practice; how can I improve this thought?04:41 I can think wholesome thoughts05:54 Thinking of red and green, unwholesome and wholesome11:47 Remember to take a long deep breath and break the resistance13:25 Going deeper is delusional: seeing patterns; saying “no” and stopping breathing18:43 Practice remembering21:16 Potency, protection, permission; it’s ok to feel good27:51 Believing old lies; seeing unworthiness; having a choice; right effort33:13 Feeling contracted - expand the chest; wholesome thoughts37:37 Staying alone, staying in the green; building up bit by bit41:53 Going ahead with the practice

Culture and Desire | Eric R #5 | 6.20.22

Eric and Dhammarato talk about relationships, sexuality, and bonding in the context of biological and cultural influences. #relationships #bonding #overstimulation
Suttas mentioned in this discussionhttps://suttacentral.net/dn31
Dressing the Indian woman through historyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30330693
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00:00:00 Culture as the most important source of desire00:14:27 Looking at desire and triggering; receptiveness to bonding00:29:00 Guarding the sense doors00:34:42 Friendship and companionship 00:39:04 The Buddha’s advice to lay people (DN 31); forbidden fruit; resource scarcity00:54:49 Thinking about the future; working on desire; waking up to lose-lose situations01:13:47 Patriarchy and colonialism

Mindfulness of Breathing and the Jhanas | Gavin #4, Tyler | 6.8.22

Gavin, Tyler, and Dhammarato discuss the factors of the jhānas and how they relate to the 16 stages of ānāpānasati. #anapanasati #mindfulnessofbreathing #jhana 
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00:00:00 The jhāna factors; piti and sukha: mastering them separately and together (MN 119)00:04:51 Sukha is safety, security, comfort, and satisfaction; freedom from dukkha00:11:05 The first three steps of the noble eightfold path00:15:22 Jumping between the stages of ānāpānasati; sati; right view; right effort; confidence (MN 48) 00:27:34 Piti is very energetic, but can relax back into sukha; success; all five factors of first jhāna00:34:06 Feeling becomes primary: second jhāna: piti; third jhāna: sukha; fourth jhāna: equanimity (upekkha)00:37:51 Putting the horse into a corral; buddho - relax into second jhāna00:41:41 Purifying the body and mind; wakefulness; lucid dreaming00:51:24 Building sukha to get to the piti; everything is arising and passing away; Daniel Ingram; maps01:03:38 Can you remember to come back to the first jhāna?01:06:08 Anchoring and enjoyment; focussing on the entire experience; arising and passing away01:14:00 Training ourselves to let go of things; samsara; easy come, easy go

Playing with Dependent Origination (again) | Laurent #7 | 6.2.22

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about the practical application of dependent origination in everyday life and the importance of seclusion in developing skills. #dependentorigination #anapanasati #beinginthemoment
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00:00 How can we learn to play with dependent origination? The five aggregates; where does the self come from?03:58 Contact is where feelings arise; wisely we can choose; everything is fluid and we can change08:36 Tanha, upādāna, woeful states; wisdom at the point of contact; working with feelings10:31 Watching how we feel and figuring out how we got there; taking control17:11 Developing right effort through seclusion; the difference between vedanā and upādāna21:37 Choosing ignorantly; not letting liking become wanting; not going into a woeful state27:50 What kind of thoughts am I having? Attitude; ānāpānasati modifies paticcasamuppāda34:04 You can feel the way you want to feel - if you remember38:24 Turning around to the past instead of being in the moment and being OK right now

Fear Is in the Body | Robert Ca #14 | 6.29.22

Robert and Dhammarato talk about ways of dealing with anxiety and tension. #fear #anxiety #tension
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00:00 Fear is often misplaced and irrational 06:09 Investigating danger12:12 Looking for anxiety and tension16:27 Nourishing ourselves; the role of adrenaline; what causes tension and anxiety?24:40 Noting without making a change; focussing on nourishing, protecting, and relaxing the body31:06 Making thinking heavy

Feeling Responsible | Laurent #10 | 6.29.22

Laurent and Dhammarato talk about how to deal with feeling responsible.
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00:00 Interventions can be wholesome; feeling responsible09:44 Misery loves company; recognising the rules we are following; responding and reacting16:04 The feeling of being responsible is the problem; reminiscing over old scars; not your business26:51 Wake up to your feeling; spread your joy31:39 See the issue clearly and empathise; karuna and mudita

Using Jhanas to Perceive Dependent Origination | Scott #8 | 6.27.22

Scott and Dhammarato talk about the insights into the streams and eddies of dependent origination that come from the jhānas and wisdom at the point of contact. #dependentorigination #beinginthemoment #enlightenment 
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00:00 Controlling the feelings, changing the salāyatanas, removing the formatting, reading and processing, raw data12:42 Differences with advaita; just seeing; staying with the viññana18:12 It requires a skill; making gaps; everything is finite; no boundaries27:38 Catching things at the point of liking; seeing the mechanism; streams and eddies; nothingness38:02 This is not hard to do - it just needs skills; the diversity of mind moments40:36 Taking the mystery out of the jhānas; not magic, but skills47:11 The witness stage; being one with everything; everything is temporary; essentialising consciousness

Stubbing Our Toes on Reality | Markus #1 | 6.27.22

Markus and Dhammarato talk about the four basic skills of practice #dukkha #nobleeightfoldpath #anapanasati
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00:00:00 We always start with the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path00:05:05 Seeing dukkha and coming into satisfaction; learning to feel bad00:12:27 The second noble truth: greed, ill-will, and delusion00:17:04 The attitude of a winner, a lion: going into the third noble truth00:19:40 Stubbing our toes on reality; everything is in turmoil; be here now00:23:24 Memories have three problems; problems with translation; with right effort you can make a change00:28:22 Right noble viewing, right observation: this thought could be improved00:31:49 Right sati (wakey, wakey), right view, right effort, right attitude - the four skills for right unification of mind00:38:40 Clarity of mind is the route to freedom; ānāpānasati; Western Buddhism lacks key ingredients00:45:09 Examining the mind and gladdening the mind; breathing consciously: body and mind in unison00:47:57 The value of seclusion; samma sankappa: coming out of childhood victimhood 00:52:05 With a joyous attitude we can handle anything00:53:54 The body is an electrochemical machine with slow features; changing the way we feel01:00:24 Brief mind moments: ten things a second; developing fast sati01:05:29 Habit is powerful: give yourself a break

Don’t Jump Overboard! | Eric R #6 | 6.27.22

Eric and Dhammarato talk about dealing wisely with people’s expectations and needs. #brahmaviharas #compassion #empathy
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00:00:00 Compassion is not feeling bad for someone else; don’t jump  overboard; karuna00:18:10 Looking at the brahmaviharas; sympathetic vibrations; smiling; wearing them down with joy00:26:28 Not having enough joy; understanding your skills00:29:02 Political activism; not your business00:36:50 Sympathy, empathy, and compassion; don’t get wet; one by one as they occur00:44:58 Promotion and incompetence00:49:09 Asteroids; existential risk00:51:48 Your job: your joy, your satisfaction01:02:28 Giving gratitude; using wisdom