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Orientation
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Orientation
Joshua Tree
6 5-Mar-11
Day 1 Orientation
for the retreat,
Loving-Kindness
meditation instructions.
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MN
20 The Removal of
Distracting Thoughts - Vitakkasaṇṭhāna
Sutta
Five
methods of removing
distracting thoughts are
presented, but the last
four
may have been added by
Brahmins some time after
the time of the Buddha.
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MN
20 Joshua Tree
6
6-Mar-11
Day 2
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MN
19 Two Kinds of Thought - Dvedhāvitakka
Sutta
The Buddha divides thought into two classes: thoughts of sensual desire, ill will
and cruelty; and thoughts of renunciation, non-ill
will (mettā) and noncruelty
(karuṇā). This discourse states simply that unwholesome thought bring about
unhappiness, and wholesome thoughts bring about happiness. Unwholesome
thoughts can be replaced by wholesome thoughts (and, even better, a quiet,
collected mind). Knowing this, we can bring about happiness and freedom
from pain.
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MN 19 Joshua
Tree 6 7-Mar-11
Day 3
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MN 59
The Many Kinds of
Feeling - Bahuvedanīya
Sutta
The
Buddha clears up the
question of why someone
may be confused as to
how many kinds of
feeling there are, for
he has presented many
different lists. This
discourse also describes
the progressive pleasure
one attains from the
eight meditative
attainments, and from
the attainment of
cessation.
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MN 59
Joshua Tree
6 8-Mar-11
Day 4
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MN 38 The Greater
Discourse on the
Destruction of Craving
- Mahātaṇhāsankhaya
Sutta
This is
an important discourse
on dependent origination
and the destruction of
craving. After
reprimanding the bhikkhu
Sāti about the view he
was
proclaiming—that the
same consciousness runs
through the round of
rebirths—the Buddha explains from
every angle the correct
way to view dependent
origination, showing how
all phenomena of
existence arise and
cease through
conditions.
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MN 38
Joshua Tree 6
9-Mar-11 Day 5
111 min,
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SN 12:10 Gotama the
Great Sakyan Sage
SN 12:2 Analysis of
Dependent Origination
Discourses on dependent
origination
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SN 12:10, SN
12:2
Joshua Tree 6
10-Mar-11 Day 6
74 min,
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MN
128 Imperfections -
Upakkilesa
Sutta
This discourse has two parts. In the first, there is more information about living in
concord, arising from the dispute at Kosambī (as in MN48). It includes a famous
series of stanzas about living with non-hatred.
In the second, the Buddha
discusses the various impediments to meditative progress.
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MN 128
Joshua Tree 6
11-Mar-11 Day 7
90 min,
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MN 53
The Disciple in Higher Training - Sekha Sutta
Ven. Ānanda gives a
discourse at the
Buddha’s request on the
fifteen factors involved
in higher training for a
disciple who has entered
upon the way.
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MN 53
Joshua Tree 6
13-Mar-11 Day 9
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MN 43
The Greater Series of Questions and Answers
- Mahāvedalla Sutta
Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita
meets with Ven.
Sāriputta and asks
questions about the
Dharma in order to
refine his
understanding. This
discourse is excellent
in it's way of
expounding various
subtle points of Dharma.
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MN 43 Joshua
Tree 6 14-Mar-11 Day
10
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MN 18
The Honeyball
- Madhupiṇḍika
Suta
This is an important
discourse on papañca.
Papañca is the
proliferation and
projection of mind that
emerges from the process
of cognition, and gives
rise to perceptions and
notions that overwhelm
and victimize a person.
After the Buddha has
finished speaking, Ven.
Mahā Kaccāna gives the
detailed meaning.
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MN
18 Joshua
Tree 6 15-Mar-11
Day 11
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MN 148
The Six Sets of Six
- Chachakka Sutta
A
profound and penetrating
discourse on the
contemplation of all the
factors of
sense experience as not
self.
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MN 148
Joshua Tree 6
16-Mar-11
Day 12
70 min
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MN 77
The Greater
Discourse to Sakuludāyin -
Mahāsakuludāyi
Sutta
This is a long
discourse given
to a group of
well known
wanderers. It
reviews the
Buddha’s whole
progression of
teachings,
providing
information that
is repeated
throughout the
discourses. The
Buddha gives
five reasons for
why he is
venerated and
honored.
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77 Joshua Tree
6 17-Mar-11 Day
13
108 min
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MN 106
The Way to the
Imperturbable - Āneñjasappāya Sutta
The Buddha explains the
approaches to various
levels of higher
meditative states
culminating in Nibbāna.
He points out how one
can get caught in
clinging at any of these
levels. The
imperturbable refers to
the 4th jhāna and the
1st two immaterial
states.
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MN
106 Joshua
Tree 6 18-Mar-11
Day 14
79 min
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