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Talk titled: "Contact and the Construction of Self", given during the event "Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2011-02-12.
Topics covered: metta, self-views, noticing and practicing with, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, close investigation of experience / 'bare attention', goals and effort, non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice, avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion), mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
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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/12513
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/55e7c35faf52f83c819e582505b97ac7/9db18224/2011_0212ContactandtheConstructionofSelf.pdf
Talk titled: "Contact and the Construction of Self", given during the event "Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2011-02-12.
Topics covered: metta, self-views, noticing and practicing with, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, close investigation of experience / 'bare attention', goals and effort, non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice, avijja (ignorance, fundamental delusion), mindfulness, foundations of: second foundation (vedana)
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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/12513
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/55e7c35faf52f83c819e582505b97ac7/9db18224/2011_0212ContactandtheConstructionofSelf.pdf
