This talk reviews what the early texts say about samādhi 'concentration', much of which may surprise you. This talk was originally presented on July 2, 2023 broadcast from Minnesota via Zoom to the English Dharma Group at Jade Temple in Houston Texas. (February 2, 2024)
Discovering Buddhism
Final notes
The transcendent dimension
Ordering the world symbolically
The serious life
Supramundane experience
Mundane feelings
The Sangha of non-selves
The sociocultural non-self
The Dharma strikes back
Practice in a social context
Self-presentation
The sociocultural self
Individual and social cognition
Buddhist self/modern self
The rise of the authentic self
The history of the self
Buddhist self/modern self
Buddhism as self-help: introduction
Locating “mindfulness” in the early Buddhist Texts
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