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Dharma Talks
given at Philadelphia Meditation Center
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2005-05-01
Unlearning Me
45:51
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Jose Reissig
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| As the Buddha showed, clinging gives birth to the I. The I, in turn, keeps puffing itself up by further clinging. When we understand that this generates nothing but suffering, we are ready to unlearn the I, that is the "Me." |
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2005-04-08
New Beginnings
35:22
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Jose Reissig
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| As we come to the end of the old and begin anew, is this "new beginning" just a gambit to circumvent a situation, or are we embarking in a genuine process of transformation? The practice provides invaluable support for the latter choice. |
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2003-06-01
The Agony Of Alienation
50:10
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Jose Reissig
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| Much anguish and insecurity results from a sense of being separated from our fellow beings and from the world. The strategies we use to try to overcome this often involve the fabrication of additional partitions (e.g.; "us vs. them"), and thus backfire. The Noble Eightfold Path offers a better way. |
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