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Talk titled: "On the Essence of Being", given during the event "Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-09-17.
Topics covered: personality level - working with reified self, buddha-nature, mind as a mirror metaphor, oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.), emptiness of time, critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process, beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness, views/orientations in practice, devotion
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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/10640
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/6f61a972b8d3299ed7141e70203364bb/80ca3e28/2008_0917OntheEssenceofBeing.pdf
Talk titled: "On the Essence of Being", given during the event "Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-09-17.
Topics covered: personality level - working with reified self, buddha-nature, mind as a mirror metaphor, oneness/vastness, different flavors of (love, awareness, etc.), emptiness of time, critique: view of aggregates/everything as a process, beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness, views/orientations in practice, devotion
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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/10640
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/6f61a972b8d3299ed7141e70203364bb/80ca3e28/2008_0917OntheEssenceofBeing.pdf
