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)
Awakening: how to do it
Awakening: when conditions stop arising
Awakening: cosmology and psychology
Dependent coarising: getting attached to things
Dependent coarising: misconceptualizing the world
Dependent coarising: how our minds get entangled
Cultivation: the birth of insight
Cultivation: concentration
Cultivation: effort and mindfulnes
Virtue: ending karma, practicing virtue
Virtue: livelihood and karma
Virtue: right speech and right action
Wisdom: relief from suffering
Wisdom: the causes of sufferin
Wisdom: the world as we experience it.
Higher training: the stream enterer
Higher training: ethics and beyond
Higher training: the path in brief
The Buddha's Method: insubstantial and conditional
The Buddha's Method: practical and subjective
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