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Episode Synopsis
Timestamps:
1:40 - What is the significance of the refrain "contemplating internally, externally, both internally and externally" from the Mahasatipatthana sutta
14:18 - "What is the purpose of life? I've heard you say it's to have fun..."
26:15 - If it's true we can only experience one sensation at a time, is it possible to "crowd out" unpleasant sensations by focusing only on pleasant ones?
28:50 - If everything is a single interconnected process, how can an individual be free of suffering? (discussion includes 3rd path, 4th path, dharma and determinism)
50:05 - How do we know that there is anything outside of the mind?
1:02:46 - (continuation) The role of inference in the dharma
1:08:18 - (continuation) Why Kant did not attain Insight, in spite of intellectually understanding emptiness, no-self etc.
1:12:27 - Loss of motivation to meditate after a 3rd cessation experience, in spite of sense of incompleteness/restlessness?
1:20:34 - (continuation) Focusing on breath seems to create unnecessary subject/object split
1:23:14 - (continuation) How to proceed when it's clear there's nothing "I" can do? Dynamics of attention/awareness in higher paths?
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1:40 - What is the significance of the refrain "contemplating internally, externally, both internally and externally" from the Mahasatipatthana sutta
14:18 - "What is the purpose of life? I've heard you say it's to have fun..."
26:15 - If it's true we can only experience one sensation at a time, is it possible to "crowd out" unpleasant sensations by focusing only on pleasant ones?
28:50 - If everything is a single interconnected process, how can an individual be free of suffering? (discussion includes 3rd path, 4th path, dharma and determinism)
50:05 - How do we know that there is anything outside of the mind?
1:02:46 - (continuation) The role of inference in the dharma
1:08:18 - (continuation) Why Kant did not attain Insight, in spite of intellectually understanding emptiness, no-self etc.
1:12:27 - Loss of motivation to meditate after a 3rd cessation experience, in spite of sense of incompleteness/restlessness?
1:20:34 - (continuation) Focusing on breath seems to create unnecessary subject/object split
1:23:14 - (continuation) How to proceed when it's clear there's nothing "I" can do? Dynamics of attention/awareness in higher paths?
Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa
Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates
Much more at: http://culadasa.com/
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