dharma.org.au audio
2012 visit of Stephen and Martine
Batchelor, Sine Cera study retreat talks
1. Experience
- Stephen Batchelor, 11th March 2012, 57 minutes. The Buddha's
criteria for regarding a statement as valid; a pragmatic view
of the dharma; the "all" is equivalent to "experience"
or "life" -- no need of metaphysical realities; supportive
quote by Lucretius; awakening to the delight, tragedy and emancipation
of life. Stream
2. Practice
- Martine Batchelor, 11th March 2012, 49 minutes. Stream
3. Namarupa and Consciousness - Stephen Batchelor, 12th March 2012,
62 minutes. Meaning of the term "namarupa" in Upanishads
and early Buddhism; the Buddha's critique of an unconditioned
consciousness; the interdependence of namarupa and consciousness
like two sheaves of reeds. Stream
4. Ethics, Compassion and Wisdom - Martine Batchelor, 12th March 2012,
45 minutes. Stream
5. Dukkha and Tanha
- Stephen Batchelor, 13th March 2012, 60 minutes. Definition
of dukkha; dukkha and pleasure; "fully understanding"
dukkha; the Buddha and Nagarjuna's understanding of the five
bundles as not self; definition of tanha (craving); clinging
and narcissism. Stream
6. Awakening
- Martine Batchelor, 13th March 2012, 55 minutes.Stream
7. Conditionality and the Four - Stephen Batchelor, 14th March 2012,
59 minutes. Insight into conditionality as the core of the Buddha's
awakening; reading of and reflection on the first discourse;
the process of the four: embracing dukkha, letting go of craving,
experiencing the stopping of craving, cultivating the path. Stream
8. Feeling tone
- Martine Batchelor, 14th March 2012, 55 minutes. Stream
9. Mara
- Stephen Batcheor, 15th March, 2012, 57 minutes. Reflections
on the demonic: what rises up and limits us on the path; Mara
and Namuci; the parable of the crow and the piece of rock as
an alternative metaphor of freedom; the Buddha's response to
Mara who appears as a farmer. Stream
10. Zen Quotes
- Martine Batchelor, 15th March 2012, 55 minutes. Stream
11. Stream Entry
- Stephen Batchelor, 16th March, 2012, 63 minutes. Negative capability;
the ambiguous nature of self; self as process; foundations of
ethics; Buddha and the sick monk; definitions of stream entry:
as lucid confidence, as freedom from perplexity, as abandoning
three fetters; the lay sangha. Stream