Anicca, Anatta, Dukkha Articles And Talks
Impermanence – Not-Self – Stress and Suffering
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The Personal Experience Of Ignorance – Dukkha Sutta
These three forms of stress referred to are rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths and Three Marks Of existence resulting in fabricated (corrupted) wrong views…
Abandon Dis-ease – Ten Understandings – The Girimananda Sutta
The Girimananda Sutta is a profound and complete teaching on Three Marks Of Existence. With an initial focus on impermanence, the Buddha then relates underlying conditions that arise from self-identification…
Three Governing Principles For Vipassana – Adhipateyya Sutta
Rather than treating vipassana as a hybrid meditation practice, in the Adhipateyya Sutta, the Buddha teaches Jhana meditation as one factor of a complete Eightfold Path…
Nothing Personal – A Buddha’s Analysis Of Self – Dhatu-Vibhanga Sutta
This most profound sutta relieves the fear and aversion that arises from the desire for continued self-establishment in impermanent objects, events, views, and ideas fabricated from ignorance of Four Noble Truths. ..
The Greater Discourse On Dukkha – Maha Dukkhakkhanda Sutta
In the Maha-Dukkhakkhandha Sutta the Buddha teaches that it is the profound and liberating understanding of the true nature of – Dukkha …
The Lesser Discourse On Dukkha The Cula Dukkhakkhanda Sutta
In this sutta, the Buddha teaches his cousin Mahanama that the common manifestation in individual human beings of stress is greed, aversion, and deluded thinking…
Anatta Lakkhana Sutta – The Not-Self Characteristic
The Not-Self Characteristic and The Five Clinging-Aggregates
The Buddha’s Second Discourse…
Fire Discourse Attachments to Passion
About one month after the Buddha’s first two discourses, he presented The Fire Discourse to approximately 1,000 followers. Upon hearing this short discourse, most of those in attendance awakened…
The Culavedalla Sutta
“Clear knowing (true insight) lies on the other side of ignorance. And, Visakha, with clear knowing comes release (from clinging). From release from clinging comes complete unbinding.”….
The Sambodhi Sutta – The Wings of Self-Awakening
The Sambodhi Sutta teaches the very specific “vipassana” or insight that the Buddha teaches. It is insight into Three Marks Of Existence. These three “marks” or common human characteristics define a person’s life when their minds are rooted in ignorance of Four Noble Truths…
Anuradha Sutta Authentic Dhamma
The Anuradha Sutta is another sutta where the Buddha is asked questions whose basis is rooted wrong views ignorant of Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination…
Dependent Origination, Anatta, And The Myth Of Non-Duality
Modern Buddhist doctrine continues to evolve in contradiction to the Buddha’s original teachings to provide for the continuing establishment of “anatta” through misunderstanding…
Vipassana – Skillful Introspective Insight
These are the most recent talks on this subject. As of December, 2019, There are more than 600 Dhamma talks on this and other teachings of the Buddha in my audio and video archives: ...
Sister Vajira Confronts Mara – The Vajira Sutta
This sutta describers I-making and impermanence. Mara represents the conditioned grasping-after constant self-establishment of a mind conflicted by its own ignorance. ..
Skillful Insight And Knowledge Gained
These are recordings of our end-of-year classes at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey On December 26, 28, and 30, 2017…
Understanding Anicca, Anatta, and Dukkha
Anicca, impermanence, Anatta, not-self, and Dukkha, stress, unsatisfactoriness, are the three linked characteristics of life in the phenomenal world…
Fear, Meditation, Anatta
Fear arising during meditation, particularly shamatha-vipassana meditation, is a subject that comes up often. When meditation is practiced within the framework of the Eightfold Path the context of the Four Noble Truths brings understanding and guidance…
Anicca, Anatta, Dukkha The Three Marks Of Existence
Anicca, Anatta, Dukkha The Three Marks Of Existence is an article on the importance of understanding the interplay of impermanence, Not-Self, and the underlying unsatisfactory life experience…
Mahākāla – The Corpse
This poem directly shows the wisdom of understanding the reality of human life and the inevitable conclusion for every life. When understood in the context of Dependent Origination and Four Noble Truths, this poem contains the wisdom of a Buddha…
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