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Talk titled: "The Self and Its Search for Security", given during the event "Unbinding the Heart". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2009-09-11.
Topics covered: personality level - working with reified self, generosity, ethics/engagement, self-views, noticing and practicing with, authenticity, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights, central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking, emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
Teacher's note on suitability: this talk investigates some of the ways the ego mistakenly seeks security in different places, particularly exploring our complex relationship with money, and with self-view, and then also inquiring into the very structure of that self.
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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/9819
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/cde6cb8a6608d7e335fe3c99db109108/9369a435/2009_0911TheSelfandItsSearchforSecurity.pdf
Talk titled: "The Self and Its Search for Security", given during the event "Unbinding the Heart". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2009-09-11.
Topics covered: personality level - working with reified self, generosity, ethics/engagement, self-views, noticing and practicing with, authenticity, emptiness: inquiring into the construction of suffering, self, world, emptiness/insight: cementing and consolidating insights, central concepts: fabrication, ways of looking, emptiness/insight: picking up and putting down emptiness
Teacher's note on suitability: this talk investigates some of the ways the ego mistakenly seeks security in different places, particularly exploring our complex relationship with money, and with self-view, and then also inquiring into the very structure of that self.
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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/9819
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/cde6cb8a6608d7e335fe3c99db109108/9369a435/2009_0911TheSelfandItsSearchforSecurity.pdf
