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Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 4
2016-10-10 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 4 56:14
Mark Nunberg
Please take this week to more clearly discern the gratification & allure of sense experience and the drawbacks & limitations of sense experience. Remember, the practice is to collect honest data. The purification of view that the mind has toward sensuality does happen because we want to shift our view, rather, it happens because the data that the mind collects through being mindful overwhelms older views/beliefs about sensuality and allows for a newer, more refined, wiser view to arise in its place. One theme you might use for your small group sharing is, what if any data has this mind or heart, collected in the recent past that demonstrates the limitations and drawbacks of sense experience? Some Additional Readings for Week 4:
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
Attached Files:
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  • Mind Like Fire Unbound Chapter III 'Forty cartloads of timber.' by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
  • What You Take Home With You by Ajahn Sucitto (Google Doc)

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