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Approaching the Dhamma (posted May '13)
- 01 Views about Spiritual Paths
- 02 Discourse to the Kalamas
- 03 Desire the Root of Suffering
- 04 How to Test the Buddha
The Buddha from Birth to First Teaching
- 01 Introducing the Buddha
- 02 The Birth of the Buddha
- 03 The Bodhisatta Leaves Home
- 04 The Essence of the Awakening
Section One : Pali Words
In this section you will find short defintions of the most common Pali words.
- Anusaya - Latent Tendencies
- Asava-Taints, Ogha-Floods, Yoga-Yokes
- Buddha
- Dukkha - A Hard Place
- Hetu - The Unwholesome Roots
- Panya - Wisdom and Intuitive Intelligence
- Puja - Devotional Attention
- Samyojana - The first three Fetters
- Samyojana - The last seven Fetters
- Sati - Knowing
- Sati in Daily Life
- Sila - Good Conduct
Parami - The Perfections
09. Metta Love (Goodwill/Loving Kindness) and 10. Upekkha Equanimity
are dealt with in the Brahmavihara below.
Brahmavihara - Sublime Abodes : The Illimitables
The Refuges
Khanda - The Aggregates
- Khandha The Aggregates
- Rupa Corporeality
- Vedana Feeling
- Sanya Perception & Vedana Feeling
- Sankhara Volitional Conditioning
- Summing up
Paticca Samuppada - Dependent Origination
- 1. Avijja - not-knowing
- 2. Nama Rupa Body Mind
- 3. Salayatana Vedana Phasa Six senses Contact Feeling
- 4. Tanha Upadana Bhava Craving Grasping Becoming
- 5. paticca samuppada dependent origination to samsara
- 6. Another model of Dependent Orgination
Section Two : The Discourses
In this section, the talks are short introductory expositions of the major Discourses.
I shall be using the excellent anthology compiled by Bhikkhu Bodhi - In the Buddha's Words
The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law.
- 1. Indulgence
- 2. Self-Mortification
- 3. The First Noble Truth of Suffering
- 4. Second Noble Truth:The Cause of Suffering
- 5. The Third Noble Truth:The End of Suffering
- 6. The Fourth Noble Truth The Eightfold Path
- 7. The Buddha's Enlightenment becomes universal
The Second Discourse on Not-Self.
Section Three : Talks on:
In The Buddha's Words by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Chapter I : The Human Condition.
- 01. Sickness Ageing and Death
- 02. Divine Messengers
- 03. The Two Darts
- 04. The Eight Worldy Conditions
- 05. Clinging causes Anxiety plus
- 06. Mahakassapa Explains the Cause of Conflict
- 07. Envy and Niggardliness the Cause of Conflict
- 08. Detailed Sequence Leading to Conflict
- 09. Power
- 10. Samsara Onward Going
- 11. Rounds of Becoming
- 12. Short Review of the Human Condition