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Mark Nunberg
Mark Nunberg began his Buddhist practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis, MN in 1993 and continues to serve as the center’s guiding teacher.
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2016-09-19 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 1 1:26:32
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This first part of the course is emphasizing the actual experience of sense gratification. In other words, we are learning how to be interested, intimate and discerning as the sensitive heart connects with the reality of this world of sensuality. Are we willing to meet this sense world honestly, with real interest in order to better understand the experience of gratification? Here are some reflections for week two in preparation for small group discussions: What have you learned in specifically observing, being intimate with experiences of gratification of sense experience. How have you experienced happiness in the past? How much of this happiness has been related to the gratification of desire? Reflect on the experiences of gratification and disappointment. What is the ongoing effect of these past successes and failures on your life? Honestly map out those places in your life where you see enchantment with sense experience. For example, desires that seem to promise real lasting happiness for oneself. Below are Study Materials for Week 1 and Week 2:
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality
Attached Files:
  • Dhamma - A Gradual Training by Access to Insight (Link)
  • Buddha's discourse (sutta MN 13) The Great Mass of Stress (Google Doc)
  • Buddhist Sexual Ethics by Winton Higgins with a Rejoinder by Ajahn Brahmavamso, Ajahn Nanadhammo, (Google Doc)
  • Worldly Happiness / Buddhist Happiness: What the Buddha really taught by Mu Soeng, Parabola (Google Doc)
  • Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (The Dart), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Google Doc)
2016-09-18 Mindfulness of Breathing Week 2 54:04
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2016-09-07 Mindfulness of Breathing Week 1 57:43
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2016-08-22 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practices of Lovingkindness and Compassion - Week 2 1:21:36
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2016-08-21 The Experience of Embodiment Week 2 58:22
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2016-08-17 The Experience of Embodiment Week 1 56:15
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2016-08-15 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practices of Lovingkindness and Compassion - Week 1 1:54:33
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2016-08-01 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity - Week 6 63:01
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2016-07-30 Appreciating the Ritual of Sitting Meditation - Week 3 54:38
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2016-07-25 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity - Week 5 50:33
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