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On the Uposatha, Tahn Pamutto reflects on the wide and impactful subject of kamma or Action. The three types (Mental, Verbal, and Physical) break down into ten skillful and ten unskillful types of activity. We cultivate the wholesome as a vehicle to our end destination – the kamma leading to the end of kamma and
Morning: Tahn Pamutto does a deep investigation of the nature of Intention in Buddhism. It is the meeting point of two important concepts – that being Right Intention, or Samma Saṅkappa, and Volitional Formations, or Saṅkhāra. When we see how one feeds the other in an endless loop, and how zooming out to get a
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Tahn Pamutto reflects on the major teaching found throughout all strands of Buddhist thought – that of the categorizing of mental states into the three roots of Greed, Hatred, and Delusion. The names for these categories suggest very coarse and rare mental states and it’s easy to shy away from speaking about them openly. But
On the Uposatha, Tahn Pamutto reflects on the wide and impactful subject of kamma or Action. The three types (Mental, Verbal, and Physical) break down into ten skillful and ten unskillful types of activity. We cultivate the wholesome as a vehicle to our end destination – the kamma leading to the end of kamma and
Tahn Pamutto reviews what information is available in the suttas and various Buddhist sources about the nature of life and death: the cycles we move through in life, what to expect at the time of death, and the various actions and practices that can make this an opportunity for growth for us and our loved
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The morning session of the ‘Becoming and the Middle Way’ daylong. Tahn Pamutto describes with examples the threefold division of Bhava/Becoming found in the Pāli Canon. Existence, and the Craving for Existence, is the driving force leading us into future birth. The afternoon session of the ‘Bhava and the Middle Way’ Daylong. Tahn Pamutto explains
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This is the transcript of a short talk which can be found at: The Refuge of Dhamma – https://youtu.be/87jv9zTWPVI?si=JnCn_OCxVitPN5AT Tahn Pamutto: The Dhamma is not one book. That’s because the dhamma that the Buddha pointed to isn’t just one thing. It it isn’t a teaching that comes from a god and it isn’t a teaching
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Morning session for the daylong on AN 3.102, the Nimitta Sutta. Tahn Pamutto reads the sutta and expounds on the three themes the Buddha points to for attaining balance in our practice. He goes on to explain the meaning and use of the word ‘nimitta’ and how understand the way the mind uses symbols to
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Recollection of Peace meditation with Tahn Pamutto: I’ll give a little bit of guidance and then we’ll do our thing. There is a core meditation that the Buddha refers to as upasamanussati. Upasama is peace. So it is the recollection or the remembrance of peace. Thinking of this for those who have some experience of
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