Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below are the audio links to our 3rd August Thursday class’s recording for sharing by all.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below are the audio links to our 3rd August Thursday class’s recording for sharing by all.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is the audio link to our last Tuesday class dated 1.8.2017 recording for sharing by all.
The following dharma were discussed:
I) How do we act? What is true action?
ii) Acting according to memory is not acting at all.
iii) We should act according to wisdom or understanding.
iv) The 12 links or law of dependent origination.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below are the audio links to our last Thursday class dated 27th July 2017 recording for sharing by all. Do listen attentively to the following rather good dharma which was shared:
By and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is the audio link to our last night’s Tuesday class recording dated 26.7.2017 for sharing by all. Do listen to the rather good sharing where the following dharma were discussed:
i) Understanding Nibbana
ii) Dependent Origination
iii) When this arise that arise, when this ceases that ceases. (Imasmim sati idam hoti; Imasmim asati idam na hoti) – this is how duality and dependent origination manifest.
iv) Cause of suffering is attachment or craving. Attachment/craving arises from self-delusion. Behind self-delusion is ignorance. Only wisdom can cease ignorance and free our mind from all suffering, leading to Enlightenment.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Below is the audio link to our last Sunday 23.7.2017 6th patriarch platform sutra class’s recording for sharing by all. Please do listen to the rather good sharing where the following were shared:
I) Pg. 266 of sutra on “Mind is Buddha”
ii) Questions on:
1) Why Buddha said consciousness is Impermanent but I feel like it is always there?
2) The true mind is always there/existing & pure, so why do we need to stabilize?
iii) Wisdom and Samadhi
iv) How do we create thought?
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is the audio link to our last night’s Thursday (20July2017) Class Dharma sharing which was very profound and good for sharing by all. The following were discussed:
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is the audio link to our yesterday’s house dana sharing dated 16.7.2017 held at Bro. Seah and Sis. Nancy’s house for sharing by all. Do listen to the rather beautiful sharing on ‘Cultivating the Bodhisattva way’.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is the audio link to our last Thursday (13.7.2017) class recording for sharing by all. Please do listen to the following topics which was discussed:
2. Bro Chin How’s enquiries on state of body & mind
3. Sis Mimi ‘s enquiries on Avatamsaka Sutra (华严経)
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Bro Teoh’s Thursday Class sharing (13 July 2017) ready for download:
Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is our audio link to my last Friday talk at TiRatana Klang dated 14July2017 on the topic ‘Understanding the importance of the 7 factors of enlightenment as an integral part of Enlightenment’ for sharing by all.
It is a very good sharing and please do listen to it attentively to understand the real cultivation of the essential dharma as taught by the Buddha.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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Dear Kalyanamittas,
Below is an extract from our earlier sharing on the article from Amaravati Buddhist Monastery that discusses the Theravada and Mahayana concepts of Arahant and Bodhisattva for sharing by all.
The Source of conflict
The source of this conflict, along with the other ten thousand woes and struggles to which the human mind is prone, is conceiving the Arahant and the Bodhisattva in terms of self. When we no longer look at the issue through the lens of self-view, the picture changes radically.
‘Bhikkhus, held by two kinds of views, some devas and human beings hold back and some overreach; only those with vision see.
‘And how, bhikkhus, do some hold back? Some devas and humans enjoy being, delight in being, are satisfied with being. When the Dhamma is taught to them for the cessation of being, their minds do not enter into it or acquire confidence in it or settle upon it or become resolved upon it. Thus, bhikkhus, do some hold back.
‘How, bhikkhus, do some overreach? Now some are troubled, ashamed and disgusted by this very same quality of being and they rejoice in [the idea of] non-being, asserting, “Good sirs, when the body perishes at death, this self is annihilated and destroyed and does not exist anymore – this is true peace, this is excellent, this is reality!” Thus, bhikkhus, do some overreach.
‘How, bhikkhus, do those with vision see? Herein one sees what has come to be as having come to be. Having seen it thus, one practises the course for turning away, for dispassion, for the cessation of what has come to be. Thus, bhikkhus, do those with vision see.’ [Iti 49]
As long as self-view has not been penetrated in either its coarse form of sakkāya-ditthi (identification with the body and personality) or the more refined asmimāna (the conceit of ‘I am’), the mind will miss the Middle Way.
The ‘no more coming into any state of being’ ideal will thus tend to be co-opted by the nihilist view (uccheda-ditthi), while the ‘endlessly returning for the sake of all beings’ ideal will tend to be pervaded with the eternalist view (sassata-ditthi).
When the two extremes are abandoned and the sense of self is seen through, the Middle Way is realized. Whether we talk in terms of utter emptiness, the arahant of the Pali Canon, or the absolute zero of the Heart Sutra, or in terms of the infinite view of the four bodhisattva vows, there is a direct realization that these expressions are merely modes of speech. They all derive from the same source, the Dhamma. They are simply expedient formulations which guide the heart of the aspirant to attunement with that reality of its own nature. That attunement is the Middle Way.
Bye! and with metta always,
Teoh
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