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Talk titled: "Sila and Soul (Part 8)", given during the event "Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light". Held on 2019-06-16.
Topics covered: soulmaking as an approach to ethics, antinomies in values/ethics, ethics/engagement, sexuality/romantic relationships, soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.), eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality, emotions / mind states: hatred, kilesas, desire/eros, soulmaking, duty in, hartmann, nicolai
Teacher's 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.
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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/58780
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/9fdd62c03d010e4e156258dab31e8a05/926a4789/2019_0616SilaandSoul-Part8.pdf
Talk titled: "Sila and Soul (Part 8)", given during the event "Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light". Held on 2019-06-16.
Topics covered: soulmaking as an approach to ethics, antinomies in values/ethics, ethics/engagement, sexuality/romantic relationships, soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.), eros being diverted to greed through lack of dimensionality, emotions / mind states: hatred, kilesas, desire/eros, soulmaking, duty in, hartmann, nicolai
Teacher's 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.
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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/58780
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/9fdd62c03d010e4e156258dab31e8a05/926a4789/2019_0616SilaandSoul-Part8.pdf
