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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.
Tracks
| 1. | Introduction - the emergence of the topic of "sangha and the practice of human relating" (2:12) | |
| 2. | The dilemmas that threaten our ideal of a lazy Sunday morning - global suffering in The Independent (3:57) | |
| 3. | The Metta Bhavana meditation to avoid the news, distractions all around (2:19) | |
| 4. | Exploring mortality and the fragility of happiness in both the private and public world (3:48) | |
| 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 (2:10) | |
| 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) |
Total running time: 26:01
