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A Spiritual Community consists of Individuals; a group does not consist of Individuals. What is individuality? How can an ordinary group support our efforts to transcend the group?
Talk given in 1971.
| 1. | Sustaining commitment - festival days; Sangha Day (13:30) | |
| 2. | Lay and 'full time' followers; rainy season retreats; katinacivaradana (14:02) | |
| 3. | Monasteries and the rainy season retreat (4:48) | |
| 4. | The spiritual community of individuals vs. the group - traditional definition of the spiritual community (7:36) | |
| 5. | The first fetter: satkayadrsti (5:39) | |
| 6. | The second fetter: vicikitsa (2:57) | |
| 7. | The third fetter: silavrata-paramarsa (4:57) | |
| 8. | The Individual: awareness; independence (6:22) | |
| 9. | Going forth from the group, and helping others to do so (10:28) | |
| 10. | The fragmentation of the manageable group (7:36) | |
| 11. | External conditions - contact with other aspiring individuals (5:50) |
Total running time: 1:23:45
