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Dharma Talks given at Satipanya Retreat Centre
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2022-07-18 Social Conditioning or Karma 13:53
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Our social conditioning is a given, but even so we have to take responsibility for it and cleanse it any unwholesomeness.
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2022-07-18 Need Sufficiency and Greed 18:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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With coming downturn in the economy around the world, fear and anxiety are boud to arise. We are attached to what we own and to oiur lifestyle. By contemplateing what we actually need at physical level and then to consider what we need at a social and personal, emotional level, a lot of the fear and anxiety can be undermined. Contemplating the Four Requisites of a monastic help to ground us.
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2022-05-26 The Buddha and War. 23:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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The Buddha was involved in disputes and war in various ways. He gave the principles by which we shojld behave, but would not make decisions for us.
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2022-05-10 Dependent Origination Revisited 44:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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2022-05-01 Karma- Specific, Conditionality the Five Laws, ethical behaviour, social karma-Neoliberalism 53:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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date estimated - Forgot to say towards the end of this talk that since Neoliberalism is powered by greed, it is by nature insatiable. The investment in wealth and power will make it very difficult to change to a more socially based capitalism.
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2022-04-18 Neoliberalism and Mindfulness 19:36
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Not an economic critique, but looking at the basic moral attitude of greed/acquisitiveness and antagonistic competition and the consequences. And the role that Mindfulness, especially Mindfulness and Stress Reduction plays.
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2022-03-21 Non-Violence is not Pacificism 16:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Pacificism is an ideal, a concept placed opon reality and so can lead to unwise reaction. Non-violence is an attitude which may mean the use of force, but not violence which is force plus anger.
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2022-03-04 DHP 314-317 From the Chapter on Hell 26:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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The Verses describe the sort of wrong understanding that leads to the lower realms and those that lead to happy realms. The Six Realms of Existance can also be takes as human states of mind that each of experinces at one time on another in our lives. But if there is moral justice, thre must be some way that our karma works out towards Nibbana.
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2022-02-21 Sympathy Empathy and Compassion 17:25
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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What are main characterists of Sympathy, Emapthy and Compassion and what are their subtle corruptions? Is there a place for just sympathy?
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2022-02-04 Dhp 152 153 The Inner Critic 24:57
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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These two verses point to the hypocrite an d also suggest the Inner Critic and that we should attend to it.
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