Agi-Vacchagotta Sutta Foolish Questions Talk 3 April 26 2018

This is a live stream and recording of our Thursday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on April 26, 2018. The stream begins every Thursday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion will be on The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta . The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta concludes the story of Vacchagotta. Vacchagotta was a wandering contemporary of the Buddha. He often encountered the Buddha and peppered the Buddha with common questions - then and now - that are irrelevant and a continual distraction from developing the Dhamma.

"Vaccha, the notion that 'the cosmos is eternal' is a thicket of views, as are all these views. These views are a wilderness of views. These views distort reality. These views are fetters. “

A related article is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/agi-vacchagotta-sutta-foolish-questions/

Each Thursday class will have a twenty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with Metta intentional meditation.

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