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DSMC   Winter Series  2011


This is a series of talks given at the DSMC in January and February to continuing students who were familiar with the material, so introductory commentary which is available in other talks such as the Joshua Tree retreats was not included. These talks are an excellent review and the videos were made with a high definition camera with an excellent microphone. Higher definition DVDs should be available from BegintoSee BV Video DVDs

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MN 152 The Development of the Faculties -  Indriyabhāvanā Sutta
This is a useful discourse on the supreme development of the five sense faculties. Essentially, the Buddha describes how to control the mind’s reactivity to agreeable, disagreeable and indifferent formations so that one can be established in equanimity. The discourse contains many very good similes.
MN 152      DSMC Winter Series     17-Jan-11    
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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.
MN 53      DSMC  Winter Series   19-Jan-11    
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MN 2  All the Taints - Sabbāsava Sutta
The Buddha teaches the bhikkhus seven methods to restrain and eventually destroy all the taints (āsavas).
MN 2      DSMC  Winter Series   20-Jan-11    
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MN 113 The True Man - Sappurisa Sutta
The Buddha distinguishes the character of an “untrue man” and a “true man.”
MN 113      DSMC  Winter Series   21-Jan-11    
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MN 140 The Exposition of the Elements - Dhātuvibhanga Sutta
This is a profound and touching account of the Buddha’s meeting with Pukkusāti (a former king), who had gone forth but had never met the Buddha. The Buddha could tell he was ripe for awakening, so he gave him a private teaching without Pukkusāti’s knowing he was the Buddha. Primarily, the discourse is about four foundations: wisdom, truth, relinquishment and peace. It also includes a great deal on feeling (vedanā). The last section is about mental conceiving. When Pukkusāti went out to look for a proper robe and bowl for his ordination, he was killed by a cow and reborn in the Avihā heaven as a nonreturner.
MN 140      DSMC  Winter Series   22-Jan-11    
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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.  
MN 38     DSMC  Winter Series   23-Jan-11   
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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.
MN 43     DSMC  Winter Series   24-Jan-11   
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MN 9  Right View - Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta
A comprehensive discourse given by Ven. Sāriputta. He begins by defining what is wholesome and the root of the wholesome, and what is unwholesome and the root of the unwholesome. Using the format of the Four Noble Truths, he goes through nutriment, the Four Noble Truths, and all 12 factors of dependent origination.
MN 9     DSMC  Winter Series   25-Jan-11   
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MN 10 The Foundations of Mindfulness - Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
This is the most important discourse by the Buddha on the training of mindfulness meditation, with particular attention given to developing insight. The Buddha begins by declaring that the four foundations of mindfulness are the direct path leading to the realization of Nibbāna. He then gives detailed instructions on the four foundations: the contemplation of the body, feelings, mind, and mind objects.
MN 10     DSMC  Winter Series   27-Jan-11   
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MN 44 The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers - Cūḷavedalla Sutta
This discourse is a discussion between bhikkhuni Dhammadinnā and her former husband, the lay follower Visākha. It includes many excellent points on identity, feelings (vedanā), cessation and Nibbāna.
MN 44     DSMC  Winter Series   28-Jan-11   
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MN 112   The Sixfold Purity - Chabbisodhana Sutta
If someone claims to have attained final knowledge, the Buddha expounds on how that person should be questioned, and on what the nature of his or her answer should be. The discourse includes an indepth description of the Buddha’s liberated mind, thereby showing every possible way that clinging can arise and be extinguished.
MN 112     DSMC  Winter Series   29-Jan-11   
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MN 121 The Shorter Discourse on Voidness - Cūḷasuññata Sutta
The Buddha explains to Ven. Ānanda what it means to abide in voidness, or “the genuine, undistorted, pure descent into voidness.”
MN 121     DSMC  Winter Series  30-Jan-11   
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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 MN-48). It includes a famous series of stanzas about living with non-hatred. In the second, the Buddha discusses the various impediments to meditative progress.
MN 128     DSMC  Winter Series  31-Jan-11   
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MN 136  The Greater Exposition of Action - Mahākammavibhanga Sutta
The Buddha reveals subtler complexities on the workings of kamma that overturn simplistic dogmas and sweeping generalizations.
MN 136     DSMC  Winter Series  2-Feb-11   
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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.
MN 106     DSMC  Winter Series  3-Feb-11   
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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.
MN 19     DSMC  Winter Series  10-Feb-11   
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MN 111 One by One as They Occurred - Anupada Sutta
The Buddha describes Ven. Sāriputta’s attainment to arahantship as it occurred through the four jhānas. Of all the discourses in this text (MN), this provides the most detailed account of the progression through the jhānas.
MN 111     DSMC  Winter Series  11-Feb-11   
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MN 95 With Canki - Canki Sutta
The Buddha shows the difference between preserving the truth (out of faith), discovering the truth (out of direct experience through practice), and the arrival at truth.
MN 95     DSMC  Winter Series  12-Feb-11   
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