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Pointing to the Moon - Led by Tejananda with Advayasiddhi

By dayaketu on Wed, 12 Mar, 2025 - 21:37

Pointing to the Moon - Led by Tejananda with Advayasiddhi

By dayaketu on Wed, 12 Mar, 2025 - 21:37

Pointing to the Moon, led by Tejananda with Advayasiddhi
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The well-known metaphor of ‘a finger pointing at the moon’ is itself a hint at something essential in Dharma practice. It suggests ‘don’t mistake the finger for the moon’. But what is the moon, and what is the finger? The finger could be taken as whatever gets us looking and going in the ‘right’ direction. For...

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The Discourse On the Not-Self Characteristic

By Centre Team on Sat, 23 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

The Discourse On the Not-Self Characteristic

By Centre Team on Sat, 23 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Dhivan discusses the Discourse on the Not-Self Characteristic or Anattalakkhana Sutta (also known as the Discourse to the Group of Five or Pañcavaggiya Sutta), believed to be the second discourse given by the Buddha. This talk was given at Bristol Buddhist Centre, 2017, as part of the series Discourses from the Pali Canon.

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No Bit of Us is Really Fixed

By Centre Team on Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

No Bit of Us is Really Fixed

By Centre Team on Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 - 11:00

Here is an excellent introduction to the most subtle and complex part of the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence: that all things in conditioned existence are empty of any innate self-nature. Insubstantiality might never be really ‘simple’ to understand - but this is a good place to start and Locana an ever-intelligent guide along the way…

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