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Talk titled: "Awakening", given during the event "Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-03-08.
Topics covered: awakening, awakening: ideas about what awakened people are like, awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening, aggregates (skandhas)
Teacher's note on suitability: the realization of awakening is absolutely central to the buddha's teaching, and yet it has come to have so many different meanings, or none at all. what is our relationship to the idea of enlightenment or awakening? how does that affect our life and practice? can we explore the views, assumptions and emotions surrounding it? and is a radical awakening possible for us?
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11862
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/c0bd6bc2caf9108ffa3a8dc379a26c86/2391ece8/2008_0308Awakening.pdf
Talk titled: "Awakening", given during the event "Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-03-08.
Topics covered: awakening, awakening: ideas about what awakened people are like, awakening: stream-entry, stages of awakening, aggregates (skandhas)
Teacher's note on suitability: the realization of awakening is absolutely central to the buddha's teaching, and yet it has come to have so many different meanings, or none at all. what is our relationship to the idea of enlightenment or awakening? how does that affect our life and practice? can we explore the views, assumptions and emotions surrounding it? and is a radical awakening possible for us?
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11862
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/c0bd6bc2caf9108ffa3a8dc379a26c86/2391ece8/2008_0308Awakening.pdf
