Piyavagga - Skillful Desire - Dhammapada 16 July 30 2019

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This is a recording of our Tuesday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on July 30,  2019. The stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

My Tuesday evening Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the sixteenth chapter of the Dhammapada known as the Piyavagga. The Piyavagga teaches the hurtful results of unskillful desire rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths and the liberation from stress and suffering developed through the skillful desire or true affection or “holding dear” the Buddha’s Dhamma.

“The wise Dhamma practitioner, intent on release (from wrong views) dwells in profound wisdom, free of all sense desires. This Dhamma practitioner is in the stream of my Dhamma...”  (Dhammapada 16)

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