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Stephen Batchelor's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Stephen Batchelor
2013-04-19 Opening Talk 55:50
This talk also includes Martine Batchelor
Gaia House The Zen Retreat
2012-07-21 A Secular Culture of Awakening 62:54
Reflections on the nature of Secular Buddhism as a culture, its relation to the orthodox traditions of the dharma, and its understanding of sangha (community).
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-19 The Four 60:46
Reflections on the Four (noble truths/tasks) as the culmination of the practice of mindfulness as described in the Satipatthana Sutta.
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-18 The Five Bundles 60:21
Reflections on the Buddha's understanding of human experience as differentiated through the five bundles (khandha/aggregates).
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-17 The Hindrances 58:59
Reflections on the five hindrances as understood through their personification in the figure of Mara (the demonic).
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-16 Radical Attention 59:28
Reflections on meditation as radical attention (yoniso manasikara), mindfulness of breathing, and the Satipatthana Sutta.
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-07-15 The Everyday Sublime 63:38
Reflections on the origins and aims of meditation understood as a sensibility rather than a technique.
Gaia House Study Retreat: A Buddhist Secular Retreat
2012-04-09 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two) 62:09
Reflections on "an ordinary person's life," as understood in a passage by the 9th century Chan master Teshan. This idea is related to the Buddha's phenomenological analysis of human experience (the "all") into namarupa and consciousness, a vision of life where there is no transcendent awareness or consciousness "outside" ordinary experience, thereby revealing a common thread between the Pali Canon and early Chan.
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2012-04-07 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One) 59:36
Buddhist meditation is the refinement of a sensibility rather the gaining of proficiency in a technique. This sensibility is founded on "embracing dukkha", i.e. the totality of one's existential condition, and then cultivating meditation as (a) embodiment, (b) receptivity and (c) wonderment. Such a sensibility can then be further developed through stillness (samatha) and insight (vipassana).
Gaia House Zen Retreat
2011-07-23 Irrigating the Field 58:32
Gaia House Meditation and Study Retreat

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