
Sunday Virtual Sangha: Meditation and Dharma
Sun, Oct 16
|Zoom ID: 878 4029 4397 / Passcode: 355743
Join us every Sunday morning at 10 a.m. EST for meditation and dharma.


Time & Location
Oct 16, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom ID: 878 4029 4397 / Passcode: 355743
About the Event
SUNDAY SANGHA: Meditation and dharma.
All are welcome!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87840294397
Meeting ID: 878 4029 4397 / Passcode: 355743
Schedule (subject to change):
-Opening prayers
-Guided Meditation (about 10 minutes) Short Break
-Dharma Talk
-Closing prayers/dedication of merit
October 16, 2022 Led by Bill Stauffer:
Attachments and Aversions and the Spiritual Path
The Four Noble Truths tell us that attachments, aversions and ignorance are
the causes of suffering. We’ll look at what attachments and aversions are and
how they create suffering. We will also discuss eight skillful methods of
practice for working with them.
Once when the great monk Moggallana was speaking with the Buddha he
asked him this question: “In what way, Lord, can it be briefly explained how a
monk becomes liberated by the elimination of craving?” The Buddha replied:
“Here, Moggallana, a monk has learned this: ‘Nothing is fit to be clung to.’
When a monk learns that nothing is fit to be clung to … he does not cling to
anything in the world; without clinging he is not agitated; and without
agitation he personally attains the complete extinction of the defilements. He
knows: ‘Rebirth has ceased, the holy life has been lived, [and] the task has
been done.’”
On Sunday October 16 th we will look at why nothing is fit to be clung to. We
will also look at ways I can work with my clinging (i.e., my attachments) when
clinging arises.
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