Nothing Personal - A Buddha’s Analysis Of Self Saturday Talk 1 December 8 2018

This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on December 8,  2018. The stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

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My Saturday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion will be will be the first of two talks on the Dhatu-Vibhanaga Sutta. This sutta shows the Buddha’s view on the complete and impersonal ordinariness of human life. The objects of life that are constantly personalized though self-identification are shown to be common, fleeting, and having no substance worth self-identification.

“This Dhamma practitioner understands where the currents of speculation and supposition do not flow. When, through wise restraint, the currents of speculation and supposition do not flow, this one is known as ‘a sage at peace.’ (Dhatu-Vibhanaga Sutta)

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