Kimsuka Sutta A Swift Pair Of Messengers March 31 2018

This is a live stream and recording of our Thursday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on May 31, 2018. The stream begins every Thursday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion will be on the Kimsuka Sutta. In the Kimsuka Sutta the Buddha uses the metaphor of a Swift Pair of Messengers to emphasize the importance of Right Meditation. For the Forty-five years of his teaching career the Buddha taught only one meditation technique with one purpose. He taught Shamatha-Vipassana meditation to quiet the mind and develop concentration. From  a well-concentrated mind refined mindfulness can hold in mind the framework of the entire Eightfold Path. From refined mindfulness useful insight of the Three Marks of Existence can develop.

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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.