Cross River Meditation Center Podcast

Yamakavagga - Mind Governs All - T - January 11, 2020

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion on Saturday, January 11 is from the first chapter of the Dhammapada. The Yamakavagga teaches the importance of developing the Heartwood of the Dhamma – the Eightfold Path – to establish the refined mindfulness necessary to develop profound Right View.

“The quality of mind precedes all mental states. Mind is the governing principle. Mind defines all phenomena. ..” (Yamakavagga)

• • Read The Chapter Here: Yamakavagga - Mind Governs All - Truth Of Happiness Dhamma Study Week One - January 11, 2020

We will begin our 2020 Truth Of Happiness Dhamma Study with a review of the Preface, Introduction, and First Chapter on Jhana meditation  (AKA Shamatha-Vipassana meditation.) On Saturday January 18, I will talk on these readings followed by Sangha discussion.

• Read The Chapter Here: Truth Of Happiness Dhamma Study Week One - Introduction And Jhana Meditation
• Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation
• session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha
• discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

 

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

 

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Class 32-1 - Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice -  Vipassana, Introspective Insight - January 4, 2020 | Saturday At CRMC

Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice - Class 32-1 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight | Saturday At CRMC

Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice

https://becoming-buddha.com/anapanasati-sutta-an-example-of-authentic-dhamma-practice/

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If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com

This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks on the Anapanasati Sutta. This is class 32-2 of our 32-class structured study of true Vipassana. Our 2020 Truth Of Happiness Dhamma Study will begin Saturday, January 11. Past talks from our Vipassana Structured Study are linked below.

The Anapanasati Sutta is the Buddha’s instruction for integrating refined mindfulness of the foundational Dhamma teachings supported by the concentration developed during Jhana meditation. The purpose of meditation is to deepen concentration to provide the foundation necessary to develop skillful insight of the Three Marks Of Existence

"In this community of monks, there are monks who, abandoning the five lower fetters, are totally unbound (from clinging to ignorant views), their minds (continually) resting in equanimity. Such are the monks in this community of monks...”  (AnapanasatiSutta)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here: Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

 

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice - Class 32-2 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight January 7, 2020

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks on the Anapanasati Sutta. This is class 32-2 of our 32-class structured study of true Vipassana.

The Anapanasati Sutta is the Buddha’s instruction for integrating refined mindfulness of the foundational Dhamma teachings supported by the concentration developed during Jhana meditation. The purpose of meditation is to deepen concentration to provide the foundation necessary to develop skillful insight of the Three Marks Of Existence

"In this community of monks, there are monks who, abandoning the five lower fetters, are totally unbound (from clinging to ignorant views), their minds (continually) resting in equanimity. Such are the monks in this community of monks...”  (AnapanasatiSutta)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here:   Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079

• Android Device: Zoom Android App

• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive  (+600 Audio Recordings)

• Video Archive  (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-ar...

Thank You. Peace.

Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice - Class 32-1 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com

This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks on the Anapanasati Sutta. This is class 32-2 of our 32-class structured study of true Vipassana. Our 2020 Truth Of Happiness Dhamma Study will begin Saturday, January 11. Past talks from our Vipassana Structured Study are linked below.

The Anapanasati Sutta is the Buddha’s instruction for integrating refined mindfulness of the foundational Dhamma teachings supported by the concentration developed during Jhana meditation. The purpose of meditation is to deepen concentration to provide the foundation necessary to develop skillful insight of the Three Marks Of Existence

"In this community of monks, there are monks who, abandoning the five lower fetters, are totally unbound (from clinging to ignorant views), their minds (continually) resting in equanimity. Such are the monks in this community of monks...”  (AnapanasatiSutta)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here: Anapanasati Sutta - An Example Of Authentic Dhamma Practice

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

 

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

An Auspicious Day - Bhaddekaratta Sutta - December 31, 2019

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 is on the Bhaddekaratta Sutta . This sutta teaches the importance of being mindfully present of life as life unfolds. 

“Be mindful of impermanence and uncertainty. Those that do so will have an auspicious day…”  (Bhaddekaratta Sutta)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here: An Auspicious Day - Bhaddekaratta Sutta

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Culmination Of The Path - Brahmanavagga - Dhammapada 26 - December 28, 2019

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

The final two classes of our Vipassana Structured Study on the Anapanasati Sutta are postponed until Saturday January 4 and Tuesday January 7, 2020. Our 2020 Truth Of Happiness Dhamma Study will begin Saturday, January 11.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion on December 28 is from the Dhammapada. The  26th  Chapter of the Dhammapada is the Brahmanavagga. The Brahmanavagga provides clear and profound guidance on how to distinguish between ordinary abstract views and confusing and contradictory “dharmas” rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths

"Engage in Right Effort! Root out the constant stream of craving! Abandon sense desires! Know the destruction of all conditioned things. Know the cool, calm peace of cessation.....”  (Brahmanavagga)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here: Culmination Of The Path - Brahmanavagga - Dhammapada 26
• Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation
• session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha
• discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Rahula, The Buddha’s Son, Before and After - Two Suttas December 24, 2019

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 is from two suttas featuring Rahula, the Buddha’s son, who was born just before Siddhartha he left his home seeking understanding. Now seven years later, the Buddha teaches his seven-year-old son a profound lesson in mindfulness. The second sutta has Rahula describing the results of his own awakening some years later.

“Rahula, all those who purify their minds through continual reflection (mindfulness) will do so in just this way. Rahula you should train yourself in just this way through continual mindfulness of your thoughts, words, and deeds…”  (Rahulavada Sutta)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here: Rahula, The Buddha’s Son, Before and After - Two Suttas

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 31 - Adittapariyaya Sutta: The Fire Discourse - December 17 2019 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

Our Dhamma class for Tuesday, December 17, 2019 is class 31 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks and articles are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Adittapariyaya Sutta.  The Buddha presented his first two discourses to the ascetics he had previously befriended. About one month after the Buddha's first two discourses, he presented The Fire Discourse to approximately 1,000 followers. Upon hearing this short discourse, most of those in attendance awakened.

"Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with the eye, disenchanted with forms, disenchanted with consciousness at the eye, disenchanted with contact at the eye. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: With that, too, they grow disenchanted.…”  (Adittapariyaya Sutta)

• Read The Complete Sutta Here: Adittapariyaya Sutta: The Fire Discourse
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App
• Dhamma Class Schedule

My video archive has over 500 videos and my audio archive has over 600 recordings as of December, 2019.

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within twenty-four hours:

• Podcast/Audio Archive (+600 Audio Recordings)
• Video Archive (+500 Video Recordings)

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on Podbean or iTunes you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 30 - Handful of Leaves - Simsapa Sutta - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - December 14 2019

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

Our Dhamma class for Saturday, December 14, 2019 is class 30 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Simsapa Sutta. Here the Buddha describes the pure and direct focus of his Dhamma. He knew the foolishness and cruelty of continuing ignorance of Four Noble Truths by teaching any “dharma” that would develop further confusion and deluded thinking.

“This is what I teach. I teach these things because they are related to my Dhamma and they support the principles of a life integrated with the Eightfold Path...”  (Simsapa Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article: Handful of Leaves - Simsapa Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on iTunes or Podbean or my Youtube channel, you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Clinging To Self-Reference - A Nun Teaches Her Ex - Culavedalla Sutta - Class 29 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

Our Dhamma class for Tuesday, December 10, 2019 is class 29 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks and articles are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Culavedalla Sutta. This sutta presents a complete teaching on the process of delusion that begins with self-identification and the actual experience of developing insight into the clear path to be developed to end clinging to objects, views, and ideas

“Visakha, the Buddha teaches that self-identification is established by clinging to form, by clinging to feeling, by clinging to perception, by clinging to fabrications, and by clinging to consciousness. These five clinging-aggregates are the self-identification taught by the Buddha…”  (Culavedalla Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Clinging To Self-Reference - A Nun Teaches Her Ex - Culavedalla Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on iTunes or Podbean or my Youtube channel, you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 28 - Released From Affliction - Khajjaniya Sutta - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - December 7 2019

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This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

Our Dhamma class for Saturday, December 7, 2019 is class 28 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

Our 2019  Sangha Dinner will be December 12, 7 Pm at Bamboo House in Frenchtown. Additional information is below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Khajjaniya Sutta. The Khajjaniya Sutta is a profound teaching on the confusion and suffering that follows from clinging to speculative views rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths. 

“Understanding, they become disenchanted with past and future feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. They are now practicing the Dhamma to become disenchanted and dispassionate with present feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness. They are now practicing the Dhamma to develop cessation from clinging to present feelings, perceptions, fabrications, and consciousness..”  (Khajjaniya Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article: Released From Affliction - Khajjaniya Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on iTunes or Podbean or my Youtube channel, you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 27- Two Arrows and Awakened Mindfulness, The Sallatha and Bahiya Suttas- December 3 2019 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight | Tuesday At CRMC

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

This is a recording from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Our Dhamma classes are streamed live on Tuesday evenings at 7:15  pm and Saturday mornings at 8:30 am Eastern Us Time.

Our 2019  Sangha Dinner will be December 12, 7 Pm at Bamboo House in Frenchtown. Additional information is below.

Our Dhamma class for Tuesday, December 3, 2019 s is class 27 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks and articles are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Sallatha and Bahiya Suttas. The Sallatha Sutta teaches the arising and passing away of self-inflicted suffering rooted in ignorance and I-Making. The Bahiya Sutta teaches the culmination of the Buddha’s Dhamma and the practical experience of the cessation of ignorance of Four Noble Truths.

“A well-instructed person who has developed the Heartwood Of The Dhamma understands the arising and passing away of all phenomena…” (Sallatha Sutta)

“This is how you should train yourself. When for you there is in what is seen only the seen, in what is heard only the heard, in what is sensed only the sensed and in what is cognized only the cognized, then Bahiya there is no you in connection with what is seen, heard, sensed or cognized, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor there nor anywhere in-between. This and only this is the end of stress and unhappiness…” (Bahiya Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Sallatha Sutta | Bahiya Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Dhamma class will have a Jhana meditation session followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on iTunes or Podbean or my Youtube channel, you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 26 -Abandon Disease - Ten Understandings - Girimananda Sutta - November 30 2019

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Our Dhamma class for Saturday, November 30, 2019 is class 26 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Girimananda Sutta. The Girimananda Sutta is a profound and complete teaching on Three Marks Of Existence. With an initial focus on impermanence, the Buddha then relates underlying conditions that arise from self-identification with ordinary and impermanent phenomena and the stress, distractions, and ongoing disappointment that follows from misunderstanding these Three Marks.

“Ananda, if you would go to Girimananda and tell him of the Ten Understandings it is possible that upon hearing your words his distress will be relieved.”  (Girimananda Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article: Abandon Disease - Ten Understandings - Girimananda Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 25 - Sambodhi Sutta - Wings ToSelf-Awakening - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 26 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 November 26, 2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

Our 2019  Sangha Dinner will be December 12, 7 Pm at Bamboo House in Frenchtown. Additional information is below.

This Tuesday’s class is class 25 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Sambodhi Sutta. The Sambodhi Sutta teaches the very specific “vipassana” or insight that the Buddha teaches. It is insight into Three Marks Of Existence. These three “marks” or common human characteristics define a person’s life when their minds are rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths.

“For when one understands impermanence, clinging to anatta, to not-self, is abandoned. Understanding not-self uproots conceit. Unbinding arises in this moment .…” (Sambodhi Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Sambodhi Sutta - Wings ToSelf-Awakening

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 24 -Jhāna Sutta - Meditative Absorption - Mind And Body United - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 23 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on November 23,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 24 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Jhana Sutta. Jhana means concentration. As concentration increases refined mindfulness is established supporting the integration of the Eightfold Path developing a profound understanding of Three Marks Of existence

“Those followers of the Noble Eightfold Path who have attained this understanding and emerged from dependence on ignorance, skillful meditators all, will rightly explain this to others…”  (Jhana Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article: Jhāna Sutta - Meditative Absorption - Mind And Body United

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 23 - Sariputta Sutta and the Cessation of Ignorance - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 19 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 November 19, 2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 23of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Sariputta Sutta. In the Sariputta Sutta, Sariputta is questioned by Ananda, the Buddha’s cousin, and attendant. Ananda is confused about a fundamental aspect of the Dhamma.

“I was sensitive of the arising and passing away of all phenomena. Just as a wood fire’s flames arise and pass away, I was sensitive of unbinding from wrong views..…” (Sariputta Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Sariputta Sutta and the Cessation of Ignorance

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 22 -Authentic Dhamma - Anuradha Sutta - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 16 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on November 16,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 22 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Anuradha Sutta. The Anuradha Sutta is another sutta where the Buddha is asked questions whose basis is rooted in views ignorant of Four Noble Truths. Clinging to views established in ignorance can only continue ignorance and continue as a source of foolish speculation, conjecture, disappointment, and ongoing deluded thinking. 

“Anuradha, You have learned well. Remember what I teach: At all times it is only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress.…”  (Anuradha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Authentic Dhamma - Anuradha Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 21 - Atthakanagara Sutta, The Single Quality Of A Liberated Mind - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 12 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 November 12, 2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 21of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Atthakanagara Sutta. In the Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta, the householder Dasama inquires of Ananda if there is a single quality taught by the Buddha that would result in release from all views ignorant of Four Noble Truths.

“They disregard these phenomena and incline their mind to the cessation of ignorance – nothing remains to provoke the becoming of further ignorance and the birth of continued suffering.…” (Atthakanagara Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Atthakanagara Sutta, The Single Quality Of A Liberated Mind

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 20 - Ending Fabrications One After Another - Anupada Sutta - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 9 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on November 9,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 20 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Anupada Sutta. As concentration increases during Jhana meditation refined mindfulness is established supporting the integration of the Eightfold Path developing a profound understanding of Three Marks Of existence. 

“Having abandoned the perception of the dimensions of infinite space, dimensions of nothingness, infinite consciousness, and neither perception nor non-perception, Sariputta understood ‘There is deeper concentration.’ He pursued this path and realized deeper concentration.…”  (Anupada Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Ending Fabrications One After Another - Anupada Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Seven Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat Talks

These next seven episodes are from our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma retreat. The recordings from our 32-class structured study of Vipassana continues after these recordings. Information about our future retreats is here: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-retreat/

Fall 2019 Retreat Session One: Introduction, Nagara and Ariyapariyesanna Suttas

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the introductory session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 17. This talk introduces the purpose and structure of Becoming Buddha retreats and includes Dhamma talks and Sangha discussion on the Nagara and Ariyapariyesanna Suttas.

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Fall 2019 Retreat Session Two: Dependent Origination

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the second session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 18. My talk and our Sangha discussion are on the Paticca-Samupaddha Sutta. The primary sutta on Dependent Origination.

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Fall 2019 Retreat Session Three: Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta - Analysis Of Four Noble Truths

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the third session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 18. My talk and our Sangha discussion are on the Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta.

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Fall 2019 Retreat Session Four: Magga-Vibhanga Sutta - Analysis Of Four Noble Truths

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the fourth session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 18. My talk and our Sangha discussion are on the Magga-Vibhanga Sutta.

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

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Thank You. Peace.

Fall 2019 Retreat Session Five: The Loka, Bhava, and Mula Suttas and the Atthakangara Sutta.

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the fifth session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 19. My talks and our Sangha discussions are on the Loka, Bhava, and Mula Suttas  which explains the meaning of becoming and the Atthakangara Sutta  which teaches the single quality of mind necessary for developing the Heartwood of the Dhamma, the Eightfold Path.

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My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Fall 2019 Retreat Session Six: Satipatthana Sutta – Four Foundations Of Mindfulness

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the sixth session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 19. My talk and our Sangha discussion are on the Satipatthana Sutta, the primary sutta on Four Foundations Of Mindfulness .

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Fall 2019 Retreat Session Seven: Anapanasati Sutta – The Buddha describes skillful and authentic Dhamma practice

Greetings, friends, this is a recording of the seventh session of our Fall 2019 Heartwood Of The Dhamma Retreat on October 20. My talk and our Sangha discussion are on the Anapanasati Sutta. In this sutta the Buddha describes skillful and authentic Dhamma practice.

If you find benefit from this talk and to support future recordings please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 19 - Ending Fabrications Through Jhana - Rahogata Sutta - Vipassana, Introspective Insight November 5 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 November 5, 2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 19of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Rahogata Sutta. In the Rahogata Sutta, the Buddha teaches that feelings of pleasure, pain, or ambivalence, when perceived through a mind rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths will fabricate what is experienced in a way that reaffirms ignorance and continues stress. 

“I have stated this in connection to fabrications. Fabrications are impermanent. It is the nature of fabrications to arise and pass away, to change. It is in connection to fabrications that I stated that whatever feeling arises, they are all stressful.…” (Rahogata Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Ending Fabrications Through Jhana - Rahogata Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 18 - Vipallasa Sutta - Fabrications - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - November 2 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on November 2,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 18 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Vipallasa Sutta. This concise sutta speaks directly to the heart of the Dhamma and provides simple and direct guidance of the qualities of mind to recognize and abandon and the qualities of mind to develop and maintain.

“Friends, there are four fabrications of perceptions, of the mind, of views. These four fabrications are:

•Confusing permanence with regard to impermanence

•Confusing pleasant with regard to stressful

•Confusing self with regard to Not-Self

•Confusing attractive with regard to unattractive…”  (Vipallasa Sutta)

•Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Vipallasa Sutta - Fabrications

•Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

•Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079

•Android Device: Zoom Android App

•IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 17 - Sister Vajira Confronts Mara - Vajira Sutta- Vipassana, Introspective Insight October 29 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 October 29,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 17 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Vajira Sutta. This sutta describes I-making and impermanence. Mara represents the conditioned grasping-after constant self-establishment of a mind conflicted by its own ignorance.

“For it is only stress that arises (from ignorance of Four Noble Truths), stress arising and passing away. Nothing but stress arises from ignorance. Nothing ceases but stress…” (Vajira Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Sister Vajira Confronts Mara - The Vajira Sutta

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 16-2 The Lesser Discourse on Dukkha - The Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta Talk Two - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - October 26 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 26,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 16-2 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks on the Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta. In the Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta the Buddha teaches his cousin Mahanama that the common manifestation in individual human beings of stress is greed, aversion, and deluded thinking.

“It is only when these qualities are abandoned within you that you remain disentangled in worldly affairs and you no longer cling to sensuality…” (Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  The Lesser Discourse on Dukkha - The Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta Talk One

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 16-1 - The Lesser Discourse on Dukkha - The Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta Talk One - Vipassana, Introspective Insight October 22 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 October 22,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 16-1 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

This Tuesday’s Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the first of two talks on the Cul-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta. In the Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta the Buddha teaches his cousin Mahanama that the common manifestation in individual human beings of stress is greed, aversion, and deluded thinking.

“It is only when these qualities are abandoned within you that you remain disentangled in worldly affairs and you no longer cling to sensuality…” (Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  The Lesser Discourse on Dukkha - The Cula-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta Talk One

• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 15-2- The Greater Discourse on Dukkha - The Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta Part Two - Vipassana, Introspective Insight- October 14 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 October 14 2019.

This Tuesday’s class is class 16 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

This Tuesday’s Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks on the Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta. In the Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta the Buddha teaches that developing the profound and liberating understanding of the true nature of individual contribution to stress and suffering – Dukkha – is the distinguishing factor between his Dhamma and common “spiritual” disciplines of his time.

“Friends, when wanderers of other sects say this you should ask them ‘What is the allure, the drawback, and the release with regard to sensuality? What is the allure, the drawback, and the release with regard to forms? What is the allure, the drawback, and the release with regard to feelings?…” (Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  The Greater Discourse on Dukkha - The Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 15 - The Greater Discourse on Dukkha - The Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta Part One - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - October 12 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 12,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 15 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

This Saturday’s Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the first of two talks on the Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta. In the Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta the Buddha teaches that developing the profound and liberating understanding of the true nature of individual contribution to stress and suffering – Dukkha – is the distinguishing factor between his Dhamma and common “spiritual” disciplines of his time.

“Friends, when wanderers of other sects say this you should ask them ‘What is the allure, the drawback, and the release with regard to sensuality? What is the allure, the drawback, and the release with regard to forms? What is the allure, the drawback, and the release with regard to feelings?…” (Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  The Greater Discourse on Dukkha - The Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 14 - Vipassana, Introspective Insight - The Personal Experience Of Ignorance - Dukkha Sutta - October 8 2019

This is a recording of our Tuesday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 8,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 14 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Dukkha Sutta. In the Dukkha Sutta, Venerable Sariputta teaches Jambukhadika a simple, direct, and useful understanding of three forms of Dukkha.

“Wise teacher, is there a path, a practice, for the full understanding of these forms of stress?”

“Yes, there is a path, a practice, for developing a full understanding of these three forms of stress. The path is precisely the Noble Eightfold Path…” (Dukkha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: The Personal Experience Of Ignorance - Dukkha Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 13 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Three Trainings For Liberation - Sikkha Sutta - October 5 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on October 5,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 13 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below.

My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Sikkha Sutta. The Sikkha Sutta teaches that the Eightfold Path is a path that incorporates the three aspects or trainings necessary for becoming Rightly Self-Awakened as the Buddha instructs. The Eightfold Path is a path directly developing heightened virtue, heightened concentration, and heightened wisdom

“Friends, there are three trainings that I teach. I teach training in heightened virtue. I teach training in heightened concentration. I teach training in heightened wisdom…” (Sikkha Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here:  Three Trainings For Liberation - Sikkha Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 12 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Anatta Lakkhana Sutta - The Not-Self Characteristic - October 1 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 October 1,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 12 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta. The Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta explains how a wrong view of self arises and how the interrelationship between this wrong view of self within an ever-changing environment results in ongoing stress and suffering.

“Bhikkhus, form is not-self. Were form self, then this form would not lead to suffering, and one could have it be any form desired, and stress free. Since form is not-self it leads to suffering and none can have it be any form desired and stress free.…” (Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Anatta Lakkhana Sutta - The Not-Self Characteristic
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 11 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Cittavagga - A Well Restrained Mind - September 28 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on September 28,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 11 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Cittavagga, the third chapter of the Dhammapada. The Cittavagga teaches the suffering that follows from a mind rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths and the peaceful mind developed through the Eightfold Path.

“The mind, fickle, unsteady, difficult to restrain. Even so, the wise Dhamma practitioner straightens the mind like a skilled fletcher straightens an arrow.…” (Cittavagga, Dhammapada 3)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Cittavagga - A Well Restrained Mind
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 10 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Nothing Personal - A Buddha’s Analysis Of Self - Dhatu-Vubhanga Sutta - September 24 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 September 17,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 10 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Dhatu-Vubhanga Sutta. This sutta shows the Buddha’s view on the complete and impersonal ordinariness of human life. The objects of life that are constantly personalized though self-identification are shown to be common, fleeting, and having no substance worth self-identification.

“Through refined mindfulness, one understands that with the cessation (of self-identification) of that very sensory contact the feeling of pain has arisen independently of that contact. What is to be felt as pain ceases– is stilled.…” (Dhatu-Vibhanga Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Nothing Personal - A Buddha’s Analysis Of Self - Dhatu-Vubhanga Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 9 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Becoming Explained - The Loka, Bhava, and Mula Suttas - September 21 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on September 21,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday’s class is class 9 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the meaning of becoming. There is much confusion as to the meaning of “becoming.” Due to this confusion, great license is taken in interpreting what is meant by becoming as taught by the Buddha. This confusion and the following misapplication of the Dhamma can be avoided by simply looking at the Buddha’s own words from the following three sutta’s.

“The world is aflame. Rooted in ignorance the world is afflicted by sensory contact and perceives suffering as ‘self.’ Rooted in ignorance, it misunderstands ‘self’ and becomes anything other than self…” (Loka Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Becoming Explained - The Loka, Bhava, and Mula Suttas
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 8 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Analysis Of The Eightfold Path - Magga-Vibhanga Sutta - September 17 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 September 17,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This Tuesday’s class is class 8 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Magga-Vibhanga Sutta. The single path the Buddha taught to develop introspective insight into the Three Marks Of Human Existence and overcome ignorance of Four Noble Truths is this Eightfold Path. Adapting, accommodating, embellishing, diminishing, or dismissing outright the Eightfold Path only results in a “spiritual” or “religious” practice that can only ignore an awakened human being’s teaching.

“For one who has developed Right Meditation their concentration increases, their mind rests in equanimity, neither pleasure nor pain have a footing. They enter and remain in the Fourth Jhana. Their mindfulness and equanimity is pure, free of wrong views rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths…” (Magga-Vibhanga Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Analysis Of The Eightfold Path - Magga-Vibhanga Sutta
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 7 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Analysis of Four Noble Truths - The Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta- September 14 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on September 14,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This is class 7 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta. In the Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta, one of the Buddha’s chief disciples. Sariputta, presents a complete analysis of the Four Noble Truths including a simple and direct explanation of the Eightfold Path.

“Sariputta is like a mother giving birth and Moggallana is like the nurse that attends to the baby. Sariputta trains others on developing the Dhamma, Moggallana, to the highest culmination.” … (Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Analysis of Four Noble Truths - The Sacca-Vibhanga Sutta-
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 6 - Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Three Governing Principles For Vipassana - Adhipateyya Sutta - September 10 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 September 10,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This is class 6 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Adhipateyya Sutta. This sutta shows the primary importance of skillful introspective insight into the clinging relationship between impermanence, fabricated views of self, and the stress and suffering that follows.

“How is the self a governing principle for the cessation of ignorance? A skillful disciple having established seclusion and quiet reflects on this: ‘It is not for the sake of robes, alms, lodging, or future becoming that I am practicing the Dhamma…” (Adhipateyya Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: https://becoming-buddha.com/three-governing-principles-for-vipassana-adhipateyya-sutta/
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

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• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

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Thank You. Peace.

Class 5 Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Cula-Saccaka Sutta - A Fearless And Independent Dhamma - September 7 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on September 7,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This is class 5 of 32 classes of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. Past talks are linked below. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is  on the Cula-Saccaka Sutta. In the Cula-Saccaka Sutta, the Buddha is confronted by Saccaka, a follower of Nigantha Nataputta, the local leader of a Jain sect. The Buddha’s response is a powerful and concise teaching on the Three Marks Of Existence.

““Listen closely to what I am saying, Aggivessana, and answer only after you have paid attention! Your answer is inconsistent with your statements. Is form impermanent or constant?” … (Cula-Saccaka Sutta)

• Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Cula-Saccaka Sutta - A Fearless And Independent Dhamma
• Vipassana Structured Study Schedule And Class Recordings

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 4-2 Vipassana - Introspective Insight - Dependent Origination - The Paticca Samuppada Sutta - September 3 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 September 3,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This is class 4-2 of 32 of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks during our study on the Paticca Samuppada Sutta, the primary sutta on Dependent Origination. Dependent Origination shows that it is clinging fabricated views of self (anatta) to impermanent phenomena (anicca) that results in ongoing confusion, delusion, and unsatisfactory experiences.  (Dukkha) It is ignorance of Four Noble Truths that is the originating condition that dukkha is dependent on.

“"From the cessation of birth comes the cessation of sickness, aging, death, sorrow, pain, distress, despair and confusion. Wisdom brings the cessation to the entire mass of stress and suffering.” (Paticca Samuppada Sutta)

Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Dependent Origination - The Paticca Samuppada Sutta - Vipassana - Introspective Insight  Class 4

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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To schedule private individual or group Dhamma instruction via video-conference please  Email John

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 4-1 Dependent Origination - The Paticca Samuppada Sutta - Vipassana - Introspective Insight Class 4 August 31 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on August 31,  2019. The live-stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

This Saturday is class 4 of 32 of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the first of two talks during our study on the Paticca Samuppada Sutta, the primary sutta on Dependent Origination. Dependent Origination shows that it is clinging fabricated views of self (anatta) to impermanent phenomena (anicca) that results in ongoing confusion, delusion, and unsatisfactory experiences.  (Dukkha) It is ignorance of Four Noble Truths that is the originating condition that dukkha is dependent on.

“"From the cessation of birth comes the cessation of sickness, aging, death, sorrow, pain, distress, despair and confusion. Wisdom brings the cessation to the entire mass of stress and suffering.” (Paticca Samuppada Sutta)

Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Dependent Origination - The Paticca Samuppada Sutta - Vipassana - Introspective Insight  Class 4

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My live talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Class 3 Noble Search For The Noble Path - Vipassana - Introspective Insight Class 3 - August 27 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 August 27,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This is class 3 of 32 of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Ariyapariyesana Sutta. This sutta describes Siddartha Gotama’s search for a path leading to the cessation of ignorance by developing profound introspective insight into Three Marks Of Existence through the framework and guidance of the Eightfold Path.

““Likewise, these are all subject to sickness, to aging, to death, to sorrow, regret, pain, distress, despair, to greed, to aversion, to delusion. Seeking happiness with what is subject to sorrow, regret, pain, distress, despair, to greed, to aversion, to delusion is ignoble searching.”  (Ariyapariyesana Sutta)

Read This Week’s Full Article Here: The Noble Search For A Noble Path

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My live talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.

Vipassana - Introspective Insight Class 2 August 24 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on August 24,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This is class 2 of 32 of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the second of two talks on the meaning of Vipassana in the context of the Buddha’s Dhamma. It is by developing introspective insight into Three Marks Of Existence through the framework and guidance of the Eightfold Path that the skillful disciple gains profound understanding of Four Noble Truths and liberation from the bonds of ignorance.

“All conditioned things that arise will pass away.” (Venerable Kondanna - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta)

Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Vipassana - Introspective Insight

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My live talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Thank You. Peace.

Vipassana - Introspective Insight Class 1 Introduction Talk 1 August 20 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 August 20,  2019. The live-stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

This is class 1 of 32 of our structured study of vipassana - introspective insight into Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha. My Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is the first of two talks introducing the meaning and proper application of Vipassana in the context of the Buddha’s Dhamma. It is by developing introspective insight into Three Marks Of Existence through the framework and guidance of the Eightfold Path that the skillful disciple gains profound understanding of Four Noble Truths and liberation from the bonds of ignorance.

“All conditioned things that arise will pass away.” (Venerable Kondanna - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta)

Read This Week’s Full Article Here: Vipassana - Introspective Insight

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My live talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

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Thank You. Peace.

Stainless - Malavagga - Dhammapada 18 August 17 2019

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on August 17, 2019. The stream begins every Saturday at 8:30 AM Eastern US time.

My Saturday Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is from the eighteenth chapter of the Dhammapada known as the Malavagga. In the Malavagga the Buddha teaches the importance of wholehearted engagement with his Dhamma. The Buddha taught a Dhamma to develop awakening - full human maturity - in this present life.

“There is no hidden path or other understanding. All fabrications are impermanent. Awakened minds are stable...”  (Dhammapada 18)

Read Full Article Here:  https://becoming-buddha.com/stainless-malavagga-dhammapada-18/

Each Saturday class will have a thirty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My live talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
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New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

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Maggavagga - The Eightfold Path - Dhammapada 20 August 13 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 August 13,  2019. The stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

My Tuesday evening Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is from the twentieth chapter of the Dhammapada known as the Maggavagga. The Maggavagga is remarkable in its clarity and directness of the Buddha’s words and his singular path to the cessation of craving rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths.

“Of all paths, the Eightfold Path is unsurpassed. Of all truths, the Four Noble Truths are incomparable. The noblest attainment is dispassion. The One Who Knows (The Buddha) is foremost among teachers.....”  (Dhammapada 20)

Read Full Article Here: Maggavagga - The Eightfold Path - Dhammapada 20

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Jhana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with an offering of Metta.

My live talks and classes can be joined live:

• Web Browser: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079
• Android Device: Zoom Android App
• IOS Device: Zoom IOS App

New audio and video recordings are posted typically within a few hours of the end of our class and my weekly podcast. My video archive has over 400 videos and my audio archive has over 500 recordings as of June 2019.

New and archived videos: Becoming-Buddha.com and my YouTube Channel 

New and archived audio:  Becoming-Buddha.com and Podbean

If you are subscribed to my Podcast on iTunes or Podbean or my Youtube channel, you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

Thank You. Peace.