The Phena Sutta - Emptiness and The Five Clinging-Aggregates December 22 2018

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on December 22,  2018. The stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

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My Saturday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion will be will be on the Phena Sutta. The Phena Sutta is another sutta on emptiness as the Buddha uses the term. In this sutta he teaches the emptiness of The Five Clinging Aggregates and the emptiness of creating self-identities by clinging to fleeting objects, events, views and ideas.

“"Disenchanted they grow dispassionate. Through dispassion they are released. With release there is the knowledge that they are released (from clinging to ignorant views). They know that birth is ended,  the fully integrated life has been lived,  and the path complete. They know here will be no more moments rooted in ignorance." (Phena Sutta)

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