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The 5 Ethical Precepts (sīla)

August 4, 2016

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https://seanfeitoakes.com/talks/20160623-satsang-precept3-sexuality.m4aSubscribe: RSS | MoreBuddhism as a liberation path is a gradual purification of the heart that takes root as we see more clearly, stop clinging so much, and grow out of confusion about who we are into the maturity called wisdom. Wisdom is expressed partly as understanding: everything changes, and many things hurt, but there’s an openness, a clear space, […]

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The teaching of the 6 Realms as a metaphor for privilege

July 7, 2016

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https://seanfeitoakes.com/talks/20160707-satsang-6realms-privilege-racism-forgetting.m4aSubscribe: RSS | MoreThe Buddhist cosmological framework of the “6 Realms” can be read both as a map of where beings go from lifetime to lifetime, and/or a map of the psychological-emotional-relational states we pass through in the course of this life. Both are valuable. Here’s a discussion of the map in relation to the social justice work around privilege.

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The gratification, the danger, and the escape

June 30, 2016

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https://seanfeitoakes.com/talks/20160630-satsang-gratification-danger-escape.m4aSubscribe: RSS | MoreA classical teaching on why it’s so hard to let go, but why we must, if we want to find freedom from suffering.Talk given at Insight Meditation Satsang, Yoga Tree Telegraph.

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Mindfulness means intimacy

October 23, 2015

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https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/audio.seanfeitoakes.stream/2015/20151002-Retreat-Vajrapani-intimacy-mindfulness.mp3Subscribe: RSS | MoreTalk: Mindfulness as intimacy with ourselves, with the world through our senses, in relationship with each moment. Given at Vajrapani yoga and meditation retreat with Pete Guinosso. (10.2.15)

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Saffron-washing part 2: Response to Thich Nhat Hanh

April 2, 2014

Several folks have posted this Thich Nhat Hanh (TNH) interview to me, after my recent dip into the Google-Mindfulness-Buddhism-Capitalism debate following the Wisdom 2.0 protest. There’s a good debate about it on Be Scofield’s Facebook wall, and a smaller one on mine after this post, and I don’t need to repeat many of the elements of the discussion in those

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Mindfulness the Google Way: well-intentioned saffron-washing?

February 22, 2014

For the last few years there’s been a growing uproar in San Francisco rooted in dismay and anger over ballooning rents, historically high eviction rates, and other markers of the intense gentrification that has been happening for 15 years or so — if I choose the tech boom of the 90s as a convenient recent historical marker. The recent acceleration

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The 5 Ethical Precepts (sīla)

The gratification, the danger, and the escape

Mindfulness means intimacy

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