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Dharmapunx NYC

Talks at Garrison Institute: Unearthing the Mind's Hidden beliefs

Dharmapunx NYC

josh korda

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:buddhism, Buddhism

4.8886 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Morning talks.

0:02.0

Oh, God.

0:05.0

Every night, I'm up like frantically trying to make sense of some notes because I'm

0:17.4

Neurootic when it comes to preparing I'm not sure maybe Heather's not as neurotic as I am about preparing, but I am neurotic about it and then I wake up and I look at these

0:28.0

notes and they first thing in the morning don't make any sense to me whatsoever.

0:32.0

I'm like, what the fuck? I have no idea what I was

0:40.7

on about but I'll give it my best shot.

0:43.0

Just from the very global understanding that the Buddha's path is a, in many ways, a

0:50.9

causational path, he asks us to look at the underlying causes and

0:56.4

conditions that influence our behavior, influence the way we perceive the world.

1:05.0

And a very key insight to this is that all thoughts and behaviors are activated in fact take shape in what

1:18.0

he calls Vaidina which is roughly feelings before we have any full on thoughts,

1:28.9

interpretations, behaviors, all of that actually in a wonderful suit called the Mula suit of the

1:37.7

roots suit, he says everything in life takes shape and feelings and what he means

1:42.1

is that well before the sort of all the stories

1:49.2

and all the things we're consciously aware of,

1:51.2

there's this underlying tendency feelings that arise and he

1:58.1

boils them down to three kinds. There's pleasant feelings. There's unpleasant feelings and

2:04.6

unpleasant feelings and there's feelings that are kind of neutral.

2:08.1

We don't notice any emotionally, any physically any change whatsoever.

2:15.0

And so depending upon those underlying,

2:20.0

I'd say psycho-biologicals,'s unconscious states largely in the body that arise

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