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2016-10-25 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 6 63:17
Mark Nunberg
Tonight we will finish our discussion regarding the drawbacks and limitations of sensual experience. Please be prepared to share with your small group your own direct experience how the habits of fear, attachment, craving... create a sense of weight and suffering around our sense experiences. We'll spend the last two weeks looking at the "Escape" from the stress related to sense experience. Here is a good article to read written by a senior Buddhist nun in the Western Ajahn Chah lineage, Sister Siripann
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
Attached Files:
  • Renunciation: The Highest Happiness by Sister Siripanna (Google Doc)

2022-04-03 The Cultivation of Samadhi, Week 1 – Talk 37:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-10-31 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 7 1:24:16
Mark Nunberg
We meet tonight for week seven and begin a more direct investigation into the escape from the oppressiveness of our attachment to sense desire that arise in this world of sensuality. Here is a recent article that you might find useful:
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
Attached Files:
  • I used to Be a Human Being by Andrew Sullivan (Link)

2022-04-10 Meeting and Healing the Unresolved Pain in the Heart – Meditation 36:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-07 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 8 63:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
Attached Files:
  • Contrary to Popular Opinion by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (PDF)

2022-04-10 Meeting and Healing the Unresolved Pain in the Heart – Talk 33:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2013-12-30 The Happiness of Nongrasping - Day 4 39:56
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Retreat: The Happiness of Nongrasping

2022-04-24 Mountains Are Only Heavy if You Try to Lift Them: Understanding the Buddha's Wisdom – Talk 35:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-04-30 Confidence in the Path – Talk 34:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2013-12-29 The Happiness of Nongrasping - Day 3 57:52
Mark Nunberg
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Retreat: The Happiness of Nongrasping

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