Kalama Sutta July 12 2018

This is a live stream and recording of our Thursday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on July 12, 2018. The stream begins every Thursday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.
My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Kalama Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha teaches a confused group how to determine an authentic and useful Dhamma.
“Don’t go by other’s accounts, or by legends or traditions. Do not follow scriptures (later developed texts) or logical conjecture (conditioned thinking). Do not form conclusions through inference, analogies or common agreement.” (Kalama Sutta)
A related article is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/the-kalama-sutta-a-refined-dhamma/
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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Thank You. Peace.