On the Uposatha Tahn Pamutto reflects on the Divine Abiding of Equanimity – when to develop it, what to look for, and what effect its development can have on our practice and mental well-being. MP3 for “The Abiding of Equanimity” Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio
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Morning talk: During the morning session of the ‘Fear’ daylong retreat, Tahn Pamutto investigates the nature of Fear as an emotion and mental process. The talk finishes with reciting MN 4: Fear and Dread. Afternoon Talk: Continuing the threads of the ‘Fear’ daylong retreat, Tahn Pamutto reads several short sutta’s along the theme of Refuge.
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Faith: The Adze Handle Sutta (Edited and abridged) PDF of transcript. Happy old year. This is the last Dhamma talk of 2024. So we’ll offer a reflection to mark the occasion, to keep the Uposatha, to take time to practice, renew our precepts, contemplate the dhamma. Such a good formula. The subject we’ve been on
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Transcript from Talk on Faith (edited and abridged from comments December 29, 2024) So the thing about faith is that it’s not easy to to pin down. We don’t necessarily have a place for it. If we look at the jhāna factors, all these different parts of the mind fall away gradually as we get
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Tahn Pamutto explains the deep teaching on nutriment – the ‘food’ on which our minds become dependent and bound to. He also reads through sutta SN 12.64 and explains how this teaching is used in the higher training. Seeing that our unwholesome mental states of greed, hatred, and delusion are dependent on these four nutriments
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Tahn Pamutto discusses recognizing the Five Hindrances as patterns of mind that derails our intended mindfulness and activity. MP3 for “The Hindrances” Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio
On the Uposatha, Tahn Pamutto talks on the subject of Viññana, or Consciousness. MP3 for “Consciousness”: Your browser does not support the audio element. Download Audio
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Morning Session – For the morning session of the Khanti daylong, Tahn Pamutto defines the quality of Khanti or Patience/Tolerance and describes how it tends to be used in the suttas of the pāli canon. Afternoon Session – In the afternoon, the daylong continues by exploring MN 21 and the themes of how we can
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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
