Developing Samatha/Concentration - (Samatha Meditation) @boubabuddha

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Talk titled: "Developing Samatha/Concentration", given during the event "Samatha Meditation". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2007-04-01.

Topics covered: samadhi, definitions: samadhi, samadhi: how and why it develops, samadhi: benefits of practice, samadhi as resource, emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights, samadhi: dependent on and leading to happiness, hindrances, goals and effort, piti, repression / suppression
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Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/12309
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/3d0f4a5a43d1e2d3ff040b16a52670d2/0cae2416/2007_0401DevelopingSamathaConcentration.pdf

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$Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) Talk titled: Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love, given during the event Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light. Held on 2019-05-31. Topics covered: soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal, soulmaking: purpose of teachings on aspects of the imaginal, soulmaking: aspects of the imaginal, refinements of terms, soulmaking: self becoming imaginal, re-enchanting self, images: not reducing to one meaning or causal explanation, twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities, soulmaking: dimensionality and anchoring / rooting in the divine, definitions: refraction, soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice, soulmaking: participation, metaphysics, aging/sickness/death, prayer, soulmaking, duty in, images: love in and from images, hartmann, nicolai Teachers note on suitability: the talks in this series were recorded by rob at his home. as well as addressing and inquiring into common dharma themes such as emptiness, ethics, awakening, and tradition, they attempt to clarify or explore further various aspects and implications of some of the soulmaking dharma teachings and practices, including their bearing on some of those common dharma themes. please note: although not all of it, much of the material presented here will only be properly comprehended when there is already some basis of preparatory experience and understanding of soulmaking dharma, in addition to a good working familiarity with insight meditation. To donate to Robs foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Robs Dharma Seed bio (https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Robs founding of it. Original audio: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58770/ Transcript link: https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/283e2cf8f41deaa5c302f43c81ac2e13/4854beb9/2019_0531Dimensionality-HumilityDutyandLove.pdf$