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The Early Teachings of the Buddha
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Pain and Suffering by Ratnaguna
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Shinran and Kabat-Zinn
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Stop Buying Stuff and Learn How to Be Happy Instead
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Who Is Vimalakirti?
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Great Faith, Great Wisdom
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The Buddhas Two Great Gifts to the World
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04 No views
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02 Seizing the stick
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A Led Metta Bhavana Meditation
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03 Renunciation and seclusion
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05 Going beyond opposites
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01 Getting what you want
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01 Nagabodhi - Introducing Ratnaguna
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09 The moment of the arising of shinjin; the moment of death in early Pureland; Honen's revision - habitual karma more important than death-proximate karma; Shinran's focus - now, in this place; 'ichinen' - 'one moment of time'; quote from Dennis Hirota;
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02 Ratnaguna - running blindfolded round a field, falling down a hole; a personal crisis of faith; Shinran and Kabat-Zinn - saying the same thing; influences - Shinran's thinking; Kabat-Zinn's ideas; a way back to practice
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04 Shinran's crisis; experiencing failure; radical humility - 'bonbu', 'utterly foolish person'; the 'third age of the Dharma' and Pureland thought - Shin Buddhism born from despair
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03 Shinran - turning everything upside-down; Honen, his teacher; quote from Honen on the precepts, meditation and knowledge; Honen's despair - converting to Pureland Buddhism - Other Power; Jodo-Shin; Shinran's banishment
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Adventures in the Pure Land – Happiness
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Pleasure and Happiness
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Sabbe satta chant
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The Voice of the Buddha
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05 Some of Shinran's ideas; 'shinjin' - 'true entrusting'; context of the Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra - Dharmakara's vow as a cast-iron promise; the myth of Pureland and the nature of life and the mind; the karma and dharma niyamas -everything will be ok;
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06 The Chetana Sutta (Anguttara Nikaya); Sagramati and Pali Canon references to the 'spiral path' of postitve mental states; 'dhammata' - 'natural' progression; Shinran's perspective, 'jinen' - 'naturalness'
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07 'Hakurai' - 'the calculating, determining, manipulating mind' - and self-power; Shan Tao - 'good acts mixed with poison'; why self-power doesn't work; Amitabha's hakurai - no self-working is true working; self-power as doubt; Sangharakshita's 'Life is
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08 Shinjin and 'the point of no return' (equated with 'Stream entry', 'arising of Bodhichitta', 'irreversible Bodhisattva bhumi', 'turning about in deepest seat of consciousness'); emotional not cognitive - 'a change of heart'; knowledge and the realizati
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10 John Kabat-Zinn; differences from Shinran; Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction; 'non-judgementally'; controversy - judgement and the practice of awareness; Zen context; context of long-term illness and chronic pain (physical or mental); acceptance; unpl
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11 'In the present moment'; the Sutra of the Arrow (Samyutta Nikaya); pain never comes on its own; the present moment as bearable; chapter 15 of 'Full Catastrophe Living'; difference between curing and healing; seeing 'your wholeness' as equivalent to Ins
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12 The 'immanence' model; common themes in Shinran and Kabat-Zinn; 'Acceptance and Commitment Therapy'; mindfulness as faith; shifts of mind; Charlotte Joko Beck's 'bigger container'; the metaphor of the chess set
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13 Sangharakshita ('Bhante') on Buddhism and the 'developmental model'; 'immanence' approaches' as a tactic rather than a model of Reality; problems and difficulties - Sangharakshita's discussion of them; the problem Shinran sets; Kabat-Zinn's problem (pa
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14 Willingness in experiencing our problems; curiosity about them; ending a talk with an image - tug-of-war with the monster at the abyss; dropping the rope; really accepting - don't expect an outcome
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Metta Bhavana stages 1-5
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Metta Bhavana: Letting Kindness Happen
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Adventures In the Pure Land – Beauty
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