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Showing fidelity to be an aspect of true individuality, Sangharakshita discusses the objects of fidelity, the obstacles to its development, and the tests of fidelity.
Talk given in 1982.
| 1. | A visitor to Kalimpong and a love story from India (14:21) | |
| 2. | Fidelity as a quality of the True Individual (8:47) | |
| 3. | Questions about fidelity: what are its objects? (4:31) | |
| 4. | Fidelity to oneself, to ideals, to other people (6:27) | |
| 5. | What is it that makes fidelity a quality of the individual? (5:38) | |
| 6. | Obstacles to fidelity; the importance of continuity in our relationships (8:03) | |
| 7. | Enemies of fidelity: attachment and distraction (6:11) | |
| 8. | Separation as the real test of fidelity: death (6:40) | |
| 9. | Isolation as a test of fidelity: an example from Milton's 'Paradise Lost' (4:12) | |
| 10. | Beethoven's Fidelio (6:11) | |
| 11. | A story from the East: The Amitayur Dhyana Sutra (The Sutra of the Meditation on Amitayus, Buddha of Eternal Life) (6:09) | |
| 12. | Let us practise fidelity (2:22) |
Total running time: 1:19:32
