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Comment on DN 16 – Mahaparinibbana Sutta by Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 8 – The Mahaparinibbana Sutta

Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 8 – The Mahaparinibbana Sutta — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:58:59 +0000

[...] posted the final sutta that we’ll be discussing, the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. This sutta, by far the longest in the Pali Canon, details the final days of the Buddha, covering [...]

Comment on The Pali Canon by Dharma Study » Topics, Session 7: The Pali Canon

Dharma Study » Topics, Session 7: The Pali Canon — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:02:02 +0000

[...] be able to do is make relatively short work of reviewing the basics, which I’ve covered in a relatively short essay I wrote several years ago, have revised several times since, and is now pos…. Then we’ll use the bulk of the class for a more general discussion, in which we can air some [...]

Comment on Dependent Emergence by Dharma Study » Topics, Session 6 – Dependent Emergence

Dharma Study » Topics, Session 6 – Dependent Emergence — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:08:54 +0000

[...] radical and original contribution to the way in which we understand the world and our place in it. The essay I’ve written, which I hope you will find time to read (at least once) before our class, is based on a dharma [...]

Comment on MN 61 – Ambalatthika-rahulovada Sutta (tr. Thannisaro Bhikkhu) by Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 6: The Buddha’s Advice to Rahula

Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 6: The Buddha’s Advice to Rahula — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:16:17 +0000

[...] hope that you have a chance, not only to read Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s exceptionally graceful translation of this sutta, but also to listen to his reading of it on the SuddaReadings.net website (click to [...]

Comment on Enlightenment and Nibbana by Dharma Study » Topics, Session 5: Enlightenment and Nibbana

Dharma Study » Topics, Session 5: Enlightenment and Nibbana — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:14:56 +0000

[...] to be late getting this essay on Enlightenment and Nibbana posted, but it was hard to write, and I didn’t want to get it either too confusing or too [...]

Comment on AN 8.54 – The Dighajanu Sutta by Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 5: Finding and Following the Truth

Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 5: Finding and Following the Truth — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:18:16 +0000

[...] The Dighajanu Sutta is the one that was to have been the subject for Session 4; in it, the Buddha gives a Dhamma to a wealthy, commercially successful, and pretty self-satisfied householder—a Dhamma that will lead to his continued success in the world and to the realization of the fruits of that success, but which also leads naturally into a path of behavior that will insure his happiness and spiritual well-being now and in the future. I’ve posted a commentary on the Dighajanu Sutta, calling out the elements in it that I think are particularly important to our emerging understanding of the Buddha’s Teachings. [...]

Comment on Teachings, Session 4: The Buddha’s teaching to the householder Dighajanu by Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 5: Finding and Following the Truth

Dharma Study » Teachings, Session 5: Finding and Following the Truth — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:53:59 +0000

Comment on Teachings, Session 4: The Buddha’s teaching to the householder Dighajanu by Judy Cirillo

Judy Cirillo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:30:22 +0000

I enjoy reading this. It’s so simple and contains so much common sense. I’ve never known the study of Buddhism to be so clear and practical in the past. See you next week.

Comment on Kamma and Rebirth by Dharma Study » Topics, Session 4 – Kamma and Rebirth

Dharma Study » Topics, Session 4 – Kamma and Rebirth — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:57:16 +0000

[...] is the approach I’ve tried to take with my essay on kamma and rebirth. The idea of rebirth has never made much sense to me, and my instinctive rejection of that idea [...]

Comment on Bhikkhu Bodhi’s Four Noble Truths by Dharma Study » Both Courses: Session 2

Dharma Study » Both Courses: Session 2 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:25:00 +0000

[...] the Topics course, I’d also recommend that you take a look at a precîs I prepared of a long piece on Access to Insight by Bhikkhu Bodhi on the subject of the Eightfold Path. There is in that piece a link to the original if you want the whole [...]