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Talk titled: "Living in the Truth", given during the event "November Solitary". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-11-21.
Topics covered: mindfulness, emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight, three characteristics, views/orientations in practice, middle way of emptiness, inquiring, non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice, oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.), emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
Teacher's note on suitability: a life dedicated to discovering the truth of things is a life lived beautifully, and leading organically to freedom from suffering. yet we frequently approach our seeking with hidden attachments to assumptions, preconceptions and views (often about truth or the ways it is realised) that hinder a really complete, far-reaching, open and radical inquiry. on every level, from the personal to the mystical and ultimate, how can we give free reign to the heart's longing to live the truth?
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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/10831
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/d6838021992726be8034299642f93209/69389b6a/2008_1121LivingintheTruth.pdf
Talk titled: "Living in the Truth", given during the event "November Solitary". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-11-21.
Topics covered: mindfulness, emptiness/insight: personal vs universal vs ultimate insight, three characteristics, views/orientations in practice, middle way of emptiness, inquiring, non-doing, reluctance to 'do' in practice, oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.), emptiness/insight: fading or logic and analysis as ways in
Teacher's note on suitability: a life dedicated to discovering the truth of things is a life lived beautifully, and leading organically to freedom from suffering. yet we frequently approach our seeking with hidden attachments to assumptions, preconceptions and views (often about truth or the ways it is realised) that hinder a really complete, far-reaching, open and radical inquiry. on every level, from the personal to the mystical and ultimate, how can we give free reign to the heart's longing to live the truth?
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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/10831
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/d6838021992726be8034299642f93209/69389b6a/2008_1121LivingintheTruth.pdf
