The Nature of the Mind - Insights from Early Buddhism on Understanding Yourself @DougsDharma
The Nature of the Mind - Insights from Early Buddhism on Understanding Yourself  @DougsDharma
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Early Buddhism provides several key insights into ourselves that can aid in living with greater clarity and peace. We will look at a couple of these as well as suggest practices for cultivating awareness of them.

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00:00 Intro
00:42 The five aggregates
03:07 Non-self
05:59 Practices with the self
12:24 The importance of practice

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