- Overcoming Dharma Doubts: Three Strategies
Doubt in early Buddhism is something we need to overcome in order to make progress along the path. I'll look at doubt in this video, and provide three different strategies we can use that can help with them.
- The "Underlying Tendencies" of Our Minds: Early Buddhist Understanding of Unskillfulness
On an early Buddhist understanding, our minds are beset by certain "underlying tendencies" that produce in us unskillful thought and behavior. We will look at those tendencies through their most well-known list and also look at a couple…
- Breaking Bad Habits
Bad habits: we all have them. What does early Buddhism have to say about bad habits, and how we can deal with them? We'll look into some of the roots of bad habits and skillful methods to decrease their intensity over time.
- The Unconscious in Early Buddhism?
The unconscious plays a key role in recent theories of psychology. Does it have any counterpart in Buddhism? Well ... sort of. We will look at the suttas of early Buddhism in particular, at one way we may be able to recover some ideas…
- Is Desire the Root of Suffering?
It is sometimes said that desire is the root of suffering, or that the Buddha claimed such a thing. We will look at the ways in which desire can be unskillful, including some that are very close to our hearts, and other ways in which…