May compassion, patience and wisdom, win over Love, hate, and the greed for money. Che la compassione, la pazienza, e la saggezza, vincano sull'amore, l'odio, e la fame per il dio denaro.
‣ Kammas have two kinds of effects: immediate psychological & future - 42:03 ‣ 1. Determine (little by little) our character, personality; total quality of being - 42:25 ‣ Importance of practicing mindfulness - 44:50 ‣ 2. Ripen in the future - 45:50 ‣ Kamma pushes for opportunity to mature (tendency to mature) - 48:15 ‣ Three kinds of kammas (ripens this lifetime; next lifetime; some lifetime after the next, the strongest) - 49:52 ‣ Two general ways kamma comes to fruition - 52:19 ‣ 1. Type of rebirth ‣ 2. Various results in course of life ‣ The order of kamma (functions autonomously; moral cause/effect) - 53:21 ‣ Examples from the Buddha - 54:22 ‣ Which kamma generates the rebirth consciousness? (ranked) - 56:53 ‣ Morally heavy - 57:23 ‣ Strong ethical, performed close to death - 58:45 ‣ Habitual; or miscellaneous - 1:00:44 ‣ The plane of existence (where kamma produces rebirth; three realms) - 1:01:38 ‣ 1. Sense-sphere (6 divisions) - 1:02:14 ‣ Plane of misery (4): hells; afflicted spirits; animal realm; _asuras_ (titans) ‣ Good planes (2): human world (most fortunate, middle way); heavenly world (6 planes, impermanent) - 01:03:55 ‣ 2. Fine-materiality (four _jhanas,_ heavens, impermanent) - 1:07:41 ‣ 3. Formless (four states of existence: infinite space; infinite consciousness; nothingness; neither perception nor non-perception. Impermanent) - 1:09:01 ‣ Can a western-educated person believe this cosmology? - 1:10:09 ‣ Important implications of kamma & rebirth (twin teachings) - 1:16:19 ‣ Objective situation now is appropriate (past kamma) - 1:16:29 ‣ Present moment can change direction (space for volition now) - 1:17:42 ‣ Special topic: relation of kamma to the path of liberation - 1:19:45 ‣ "Kamma that leads to the end of kamma" (noble 8-fold path) - 1:20:11 ‣ Practicing the path: mindfulness & insight - 1:21:51 ‣ _Arahant_ - 1:22:31
May compassion, patience and wisdom, win over Love, hate, and the greed for money.
Che la compassione, la pazienza, e la saggezza, vincano sull'amore, l'odio, e la fame per il dio denaro.
‣ Our views on human destiny after death influence our actions - 0:15
‣ Three positions - 1:46
‣ Materialism - 1:53
‣ Eternal afterlife (after one life) - 2:28
‣ Rebirth ( _samsara,_ continuing, "wandering on") - 3:01
‣ Hinduism: permanent soul; transmigration - 3:56
‣ Buddhism: transmission/re-linking of 4 (of 5) aggregates; _chitta_ (continuum of mind; causal continuity) - 4:54
‣ When death comes (death consciousness > re-linking consciousness) - 11:07
‣ Illustration (candle) - 14:08
‣ Conception (3 conditions for rebirth) - 19:58
‣ Causal structure of rebirth: dependent arising - 21:43
‣ Ignorance (basic root of all becoming) - 22:42
‣ Craving (pleasant feelings) - 23:15
‣ Six sense faculties (to contact; requires body) - 23:56
‣ Death - 26:05
‣ "Craving is the seamstress" between rebirth (samsara maintained by) - 27:53
‣ What determines form of rebirth: _kamma,_ volitional action - 28:49
‣ Three doors of action (body, speech & mind) - 31:44
‣ Results are not kamma (kamma is the present causal action) - 33:51
‣ Kamma viewed as ethical; unwholesome & wholesome - 34:54
‣ All kamma/actions arise from mental "roots" (causal source) - 36:36
‣ Unwholesome from 3 roots: greed, aversion & delusion - 36:54
‣ Wholesome is opposite: non-greed, non-aversion & non-delusion - 37:47
‣ Ten courses of unwholesome action - 39:59
‣ Bodily (3): taking life; taking what doesn't belong to oneself; sexual misconduct
‣ Verbal (4): speaking falsehoods; slanderous/divisive; harshly; gossip/idle-chatter
‣ Mental (3): covetousness; ill will; wrong views
‣ Ten courses of wholesome action (abstain from the above, take the opposite course) - 41:11
‣ Kammas have two kinds of effects: immediate psychological & future - 42:03
‣ 1. Determine (little by little) our character, personality; total quality of being - 42:25
‣ Importance of practicing mindfulness - 44:50
‣ 2. Ripen in the future - 45:50
‣ Kamma pushes for opportunity to mature (tendency to mature) - 48:15
‣ Three kinds of kammas (ripens this lifetime; next lifetime; some lifetime after the next, the strongest) - 49:52
‣ Two general ways kamma comes to fruition - 52:19
‣ 1. Type of rebirth
‣ 2. Various results in course of life
‣ The order of kamma (functions autonomously; moral cause/effect) - 53:21
‣ Examples from the Buddha - 54:22
‣ Which kamma generates the rebirth consciousness? (ranked) - 56:53
‣ Morally heavy - 57:23
‣ Strong ethical, performed close to death - 58:45
‣ Habitual; or miscellaneous - 1:00:44
‣ The plane of existence (where kamma produces rebirth; three realms) - 1:01:38
‣ 1. Sense-sphere (6 divisions) - 1:02:14
‣ Plane of misery (4): hells; afflicted spirits; animal realm; _asuras_ (titans)
‣ Good planes (2): human world (most fortunate, middle way); heavenly world (6 planes, impermanent) - 01:03:55
‣ 2. Fine-materiality (four _jhanas,_ heavens, impermanent) - 1:07:41
‣ 3. Formless (four states of existence: infinite space; infinite consciousness; nothingness; neither perception nor non-perception. Impermanent) - 1:09:01
‣ Can a western-educated person believe this cosmology? - 1:10:09
‣ Important implications of kamma & rebirth (twin teachings) - 1:16:19
‣ Objective situation now is appropriate (past kamma) - 1:16:29
‣ Present moment can change direction (space for volition now) - 1:17:42
‣ Special topic: relation of kamma to the path of liberation - 1:19:45
‣ "Kamma that leads to the end of kamma" (noble 8-fold path) - 1:20:11
‣ Practicing the path: mindfulness & insight - 1:21:51
‣ _Arahant_ - 1:22:31
sadhu sadhu sadhu..