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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

by Padmakumara

A talk on real practice in the sometimes painfully real world...

N.B. This talk was re-recorded 'as live' because of poor quality on the original.

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	1.	Introduction - the emergence of the topic of "sangha and the practice of human relating" (2:11)
	2.	The dilemmas that threaten our ideal of a lazy Sunday morning - global suffering in The Independent (3:56)
	3.	The Metta Bhavana meditation to avoid the news, distractions all around (2:18)
	4.	Exploring mortality and the fragility of happiness in both the private and public world (3:47)
	5.	Existential suffering, incompleteness, and the wrong view that external things can be relied on for happiness (3:01)
	6.	Going for Refuge - what we can rely on (2:09)
	7.	Back to the Sunday morning - exploring the ideals of relating and the spiritual community as presented in a film (3:05)
	8.	The Buddha describes the qualities and interactions of an ideal sangha; sangha as the ideal of human relating (5:29)