Ending Fabrications Through Jhana - Rahogata Sutta October 16 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 16,  2018. The stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

My Tuesday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion will be the sixth in a series on the meaning of Jhana - levels of meditative absorption. This talk will be the on the Rahogata Sutta. Prior two the Dhamma talk on the Rahogata Sutta we had a discussion on Jhanna and recognizing deeper levls of Meditative absor[tion and related topics.  In the Rahogata Sutta, the Buddha teaches that feelings of pleasure, pain, or ambivalence, when perceived through a mimd rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths will fabricate what is experienced in a way that reaffirms ignorance and continues stress.

“When a Dhamma practitioner’s effluents have ended, passion has been calmed, aversion has been calmed, delusion has been calmed.” (Rahogataa Sutta)

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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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