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Retreat Dharma Talks at Satipanya Retreat Centre

Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

These are very introductory talks to the Middle Length Discourses given during the period of Lockdown in spring 2020.

2020-04-02 (102 days) Satipanya Retreat Centre

  
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2020-06-23 79 At Kitagiri 16:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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The seven types of persons : how a disciple should behave : the need to give all to become liberated.
2020-06-24 80 Greater Discourse to Vaccagotta MN73 1:37:24
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Vachogotta questions the Buddha as to whether others have attained. Then the Buddha accepts him into the order and after four years gives him directions on how to attain the Higher Powers one of which is the deliverance from the taints and Vachagotta becomes an arahat
2020-06-25 81 To Dignanaka 16:09
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2020-06-26 82 To Magandiya 29:34
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Magandiya is hedonist, believing sensual pleasure is Nibbana. The Buddha explains the gratification, the danger and escape from this very wrong understanding.
2020-06-27 83 Samanamandika Discourse MN78 17:22
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The carpenter Pancakanda finds out what it takes to become fully liberated.
2020-06-28 84 To Vehkanassa 13:12
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The problems of sensual pleasure!
2020-06-29 85 The Root of All Things MN1 21:02
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The way we come to understand through perception and then concepts.
2020-06-30 86 The Root of All Things MN1 24:20
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MN1 continued and how all the relationships of self to self and self to other pan out.
2020-07-01 87 The Wilderness of the Heart MN16 22:09
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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The Five Wildernesses, the Five Shackles, the Four Roads to Success and ... committed enthusiasm!
2020-07-02 88 At Samagama Discourse MN104 20:28
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Afraid of the breakup of the order when he dies as seems to have happened when the leader of the Jains died, the Buddha explains the Six Roots of Disputes, the Four Kids of Litigations and the Seven Settlements.
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