The Saddhamma Sutta - False Dhamma’s June 4 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 June 4,  2019. The stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

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My Tuesday evening Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Saddhamma Sutta. In this sutta, the Buddha teaches that the reason for additional rules of behavior in the original sangha is due to adapting, accommodating, and embellishing his Dhamma arising from clinging to in fabricated views. Common during the Buddha’s teaching career and pervasive today, the solution to not lose one’s mind in false Dhammas is to establish and develop the Buddha’s Dhamma.

“Kassapa this is the direct result of what occurs when beings are degenerating and the true Dhamma begins to disappear. This would not occur when a counterfeit Dhamma has not arisen in the world but will always occur when counterfeit Dhamma’s are revered...”  (Saddhama Sutta)

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