Atthakanagara Sutta - The Single Quality October 202018

This is a live stream and recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 20,  2018. The stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

My Saturday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the seventh in a series of talks on the meaning of Jhana. This talk will be on the Atthakanagara Sutta. In this sutta, Ananda teaches the householder Dasama the single quality the Buddha taught that supports awakening.

“As concentration (Jhana) deepens their mind is unbound, spacious, free of the confining yoke of ignorance. They are imbued with unlimited goodwill., with compassion, with empathetic joy, his mind resting in equanimity.” (Atthakanagara Sutta)

A related article is here:  https://becoming-buddha.com/atthakanagara-sutta-the-single-quality-for-awakening/

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

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Thank You. Peace.