Ending Fabrications One After Another - Anupada Sutta Talk 1 October 23 2018

This is a live stream and recording of our Tuesday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 23,  2018. The stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

My Tuesday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion will be the eight in a series on the meaning of Jhana - levels of meditative absorption. This talk will be the first of two talks on the Anupada Sutta. The Anupada Sutta is similar to the Anapanasati Sutta. The Anapanasati Sutta, much broader in scope, uses awakened monks as examples of a fully integrated Eightfold Path resting in Right Meditation. Here the Buddha uses one of his chief disciple’s skillful development of Jhana as an example for those in attendance for this sutta

“Friends, Venerable Sariputta is wise. Sariputta is of great, deep, and penetrating discernment. For two weeks Sariputta, secluded from sensuality and from unskillful mental qualities gained profound insight into unskillful mental qualities one after another.” (Anupada Sutta)

A related article is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/anupada-sutta-ending-fabrications-one-after-another/

Each Tuesday 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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