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- March 5, 2021
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Just One More… Appreciative Joy: Jealousy Selfish Desire and Buddhist Teaching on the Cycles of Addiction.
By Ajahn Amaro
Next Zoom meeting: Friday, March 5, 5-6:30 p.m.Pacific time
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Read from page 58 at “So We Allow…” in chapter 7 “Knowing Emotions within the Body” through page 75, chapter 9 “Question and Answers”
PDF attached. PDF, EPUB and MOBI are available for download at:
https://forestsangha.org/teachings/books/just-one-more?language=English
The Dharma-Inspired book group is self-led. For our current book, Anne Foster is acting as facilitator and contact person:afoster@rawbw.com.
Now WEEKLY via Zoom!
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About these books
From the preface:
“The small books in this series of four, consisting of reflections and practices related to the ‘Sublime Abiding Places for the Heart’– the four brahma-viharas. The vision for the series is to explore these sublime abidings via the somewhat oblique approach of looking at what counters or muddies their activity. … In this third book we will be investigating mudita through the lens of self-centered desire and its relationship to dissatisfaction; how the quest to fulfill personal craving lead not to joy but rather to pain-haunted addictions; how joy, instead, comes from unselfishness,giving and consciously delighting in the blessings that others have....”
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- March 12, 2021
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More info will be added the week before this meeting.
For questions, contact Anne Foster, afoster@rawbw.com.
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- March 13, 2021
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IMC Dharma Friends Movie, Music, and Poetry Get-Together
Topic: Dharma Friends Movie, Music, & Poetry
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime
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