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We Have a Huge Barrel of Wine But No Cups
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All One Gorgeous Mistake
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Everything Matters – Turning Consumerism on its Head
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01 Challenging material; Nagarjuna on the breath; life as precious and fragile; the structure of the talk
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10 Other koans in the dewdrop world; Dennis Potter on being close to death - blossoms
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08 Death and liberation from unfocussed practice; urgency; being in the moment; how do we want to spend our time? Killing time; Ezra Pound - "And the days are not full enough"
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07 At the time of death only the Dharma is of benefit; you go alone, unprepared, unfinished; dying with fearlessness; Thagme Zangpo on death and the Bodhisattva; reflection galvanizing practice - doubt as luxury; faith and the need for a refuge
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09 Practising purely - with Insight in mind; Buddhism is not being better at samsara; not relying on the material plane; Lama Guntang Konchdron on the Lord of Death
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The Transitoriness of Life and the Certainty of Death
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04 Clinging to selfhood; quote from Dogen; insubstantiality and interconnectedness; creating a dualistic perspective
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01 Starting with a poem by Rumi - not a 'sensible' talk
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06 The time of death is uncertain; near misses; provisional plans; Patrul Rinpoche on the nearness of death; not yet
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02 Dew in zen poetry; Issa the poet's story; Dogen's insight; dew and autumn; dew on the flower - which lasts longest? Dewfrost; dewdrops as tears; dew and the lakshanas
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04 Death is certain; disassociating from your own death; Vajradarshini's death imagined; not being that significant - freedom in this
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03 Sadness and awakening - sabi; nothing beats real experience; being moved by impermanence; death as the ultimate koan
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03 Rumi on mystical intoxication; Tsongkhapa reading Nagarjuna
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01 Padmasuri - introduction
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02 Introducing Nagarjuna and Rumi
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05 Imagined hierarchies of permanence; samsara is a disaster; Longchen Rabjam on death
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12 Hsuan-Tsang's 'trusting mind'; introducing the dirt we buy to the dirt we already have
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05 Reality and intuition; Rumi and the tavern of ruin; creating our world through perception
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06 Rumi and the metaphor of cooking - discipline; developing awareness; wabi-sabi - seeing the beauty in impermanence and ordinariness
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08 A personal experience of seeing emptiness; the continual arising and dissolving of forms
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08 Pushing off into truth; kinds of connection with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas; Reality and form and emptiness; visualistaion practice and life - things arising and dissolving
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Everything Matters - Turning Consumerism On Its Head
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03 The Tavern - pushing off for Truth; 'managing' samsara and settling down
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07 Milarepa and Rechungpa; relative and absolute truth - a middle way
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02 'Enlightenment'; following a railing in the dark; wine in Rumi's poetry; the Dharma as studying the self; surrender and discipline
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09 'Fana' and 'baka' in Rumi's poetry - two streamings across the doorsill; Shams-e-Tabrizi - Rumi's teacher
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07 ii. Utilitarianism; Sangharakshita's idea of the Greater Mandala of Uselessness; literal takes on aesthetics; breaking the cups
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10 The importance of reflecting on form and emptiness; the eight-pont mind training - taking all obstacles with you on the path; the Bodhisattva Ideal from the perspective of emptiness; spiritual practice in a world neither real nor illusory
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11 Pema Chodron on how to avoid burn-out; shunyata and unrealistic ideals; a quote by Dennis Potter near to death; the trivial and the important; birdsong
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04 Fermentation; being cooked - slowly
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05 How we are cups; two ways we limit ourselves - i. literalism; a quote from Aloka - abandoning ideas of what the 'path' is
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06 Sangharakshita on literalism and craving; effective Going for Refuge and giving up limited ideas; the antidote to beauty
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Buddhism Beyond Samsara
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Challenging material; Nagarjuna on the breath; life as precious and fragile; the structure of the talk
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Dew in zen poetry; Issa the poet's story; Dogen's insight; dew and autumn; dew on the flower - which lasts longest? Dewfrost; dewdrops as tears; dew and the lakshanas
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Sadness and awakening - sabi; nothing beats real experience; being moved by impermanence; death as the ultimate koan
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Death is certain; disassociating from your own death; Vajradarshini's death imagined; not being that significant - freedom in this
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Imagined hierarchies of permanence; samsara is a disaster; Longchen Rabjam on death
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The time of death is uncertain; near misses; provisional plans; Patrul Rinpoche on the nearness of death; not yet
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Practising purely - with Insight in mind; Buddhism is not being better at samsara; not relying on the material plane; Lama Guntang Konchdron on the Lord of Death
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Rumi on mystical intoxication; Tsongkhapa reading Nagarjuna
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Reality and intuition; Rumi and the tavern of ruin; creating our world through perception
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Rumi and the metaphor of cooking - discipline; developing awareness; wabi-sabi - seeing the beauty in impermanence and ordinariness
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Everything Matters – Turning C
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Dying with Fearlessness
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Enlightenment is Different for Each of Us
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Death & Clarity
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