Dangers and Proliferation of Views

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Foundations of Chan in the Nikayas/Agamas

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Syllabus and Introduction to Course

  • Foundations of Chan in the Nikayas/Agamas Syllabus (Google Drive Version)

Lessons

  • First Sermon and Three Marks of Existence
  • Three Messengers and Buddha's Teaching on the End of Suffering1
  • Three Poisons and Lists of Defilements
  • The Eightfold Path
  • What the Buddha Did and Did Not Teach for Purpose of Right View
  • Generosity
  • Radiating Metta and Aligning With What You Want
  • Metta
  • Harmony and Cordiality
  • Grief and Death
  • The Five Precepts
  • The Bodhisattva Precepts
  • Intoxication, Wealth, and Living a Good Life
  • Advice to Rāhula and Following Instructions
  • Dealing with Accusations Skillfully
  • Right Livelihood
  • Right Speech
  • The Importance of Moral Leadership
  • Affirmation of Women
  • Dangers and Proliferation of Views
  • (Cont.) Danger of Views and Relying on Your Own Experience
  • Not Judging or Comparing
  • Superiority View
  • Anger and Patience1
  • The Six Senses
  • The Failure of Sense Pleasures
  • Eating
  • The Five Aggregates
  • Aggregates and No Self
  • Refining Ideas of Self and Action
  • Underlying Tendencies
  • Dependent Origination
  • Name, Form, and Consciousness
  • Transcendent Dependent Origination
  • Nutriments
  • What is Mindfulness?
  • Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
  • Mindfulness of Breathing and Death
  • Thoughts
  • The Five Hindrances
  • The Seven Factors of Awakening
  • Not Proliferating
  • Emptiness
  • Not all Meditation is Good
  • Seeing Through
  • Diligence
  • Right Effort
  • Karma
  • (Cont.) Karma
  • Why Practice Urgently?
  • Similes re: Danger
  • (Cont. ) Similes re: Danger
  • Admirable Friendship
  • Dangers of Gains and Praise
  • Dualities
  • Inspiration to Practice
  • Sāmaññaphala (Fruits of the Contemplative Life) Sutta
  • The Aṅgulimāla Sutta
  • DN1 the Net of Views
  • DN27 The Creation Story
  • The Story of the Buddha's Birth
  • Suttas About Practice
  • Suttas About the Decline of the Dharma
  • The Buddha's Awakening
  • Buddha’s Death and Final Exhortation
  • Buddhist Cosmology, Part 1: Devas, Humans and Asuras
  • Buddhist Cosmology, Part 2: The Ghost Realms
  • Buddhist Cosmology, Part 3: Māra
  • Interactions With the Dying
  • Chan Themes: Words and Language
  • Chan Themes: Body Like a Rag, Mind Like a Mirror
  • Chan Themes: Four Reliances
  • Chan Themes: Humility
  • Chan Themes: Principles of Practice
  • Chan Themes: Enduring in Saṃsāra
  • Jhanas
  • Psychic Powers
  • The Elements
  • Paritta Suttas
  • What is an Arahant?
  • Awakening
  • Taking Responsibility for One's Own Practice
  • Course Conclusion