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Dharma Talks
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2018-03-28
Things Are Not What They Appear 4: The Emptiness of Self
59:18
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Donald Rothberg
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After a review of our first three sessions, exploring three ways that “things are not as they appear,” we explore how there is typically a sense that we are given a world of solid, separate individual beings and objects . We focus here on the counter-understanding related to selves and beings, that the nature of the self is “empty,” as developed in the teaching of anattā or not-self.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2017-11-09
"We are all Connected: Interconnectedness Within and Between Us"
62:58
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James Baraz
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The Buddhist concept of Anatta points to the fact that there is no separate self to whom life is happening. We are inter-connected. This talk explores different levels of this truth. As individuals, biologically we are not one being but rather a complex ecosystem comprised of many different beings. We are connected to each other through our relationships. And we are societal creatures who form groups. In the best of conditions those groups sometimes create an extraordinary field where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
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IMCB Regular Talks
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2017-07-19
The Dharma in the Holy Land 1
1:12:08
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Donald Rothberg
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In the first of two talks reflecting on just returning from five weeks of teaching and traveling in Israel/Palestine, we start to explore two themes: (1) identity in the context of Buddhist teachings about anatta and Donald's experience of being with many people in Israel with very similar East European Jewish ancestry; and (2) how to understand, be with, respond to, and transform unresolved and tragic historical trauma and suffering, found both with Jewish Israelis and Palestinians both in Israel and the occupied territories. A second talk will continue this exploration.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Attached Files:
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Donald's Israel Slides
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