Sunday Virtual Sangha: Meditation and Dharma

SUNDAY SANGHA: Meditation and dharma.

All are welcome!

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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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