TOPICS

Here are notes from the topics we have been discussing in our weekly meetings. Select and click on a title below:

Learning from experience

Nirvana and other terms

Three marks of existence

Four noble truths (or tasks)

Eightfold path

Pratītyasamutpāda – dependent origination

Karuna, metta, ahimsa

Dharma & mindfulness

Skandhas – the Buddhist view of the self

Karma & reincarnation

Transience, clinging, non-attachment

Maya, language & division

MIND – some Buddhist views

Śūnyatā – ‘emptiness’

Suspending judgement

Buddha nature, the unconditioned

Sangha – learning, growth and realisation

The practice of awakening

The art of awakening and art education

Unlearning, transformation and mindful meditation

Ideal & actual – theory & practice

What do we mean by practice

Non-self – contingency – anatta

On death and dying

Suffering, craving and Fourfold Task

Joy & equanimity

More on ‘dependent arising’ – pratitya-samutpada

Belief, doubt & enquiry

Suchness – tathatā

Buddhism & psychotherapy

Enlightenment in everyday life

Contingency & conditionality

The Book of Eights

Language, Buddhism & meditation