This week Sam guided our discussion on liberation from suffering through non-clinging. This is, of course, a fundamental teaching of the Buddha, filled with many nuances, and can be the basis for a variety of approaches to practice, as excerpts from talks by several dharma teachers will make clear.
MN37: [The Buddha was asked, by Sakka, the ruler of the gods, how is a bikkhu liberated by the destruction of craving]. When a bhikhu has heard that nothing is worth adhering to, he directly knows everything; having directly know everything, he fully understands everything; having fully understood everything, whatever feeling he feels, whether pleasant or painful or neither, he abides contemplating impermanence in those feelings, contemplating fading away, contemplating cessation, contemplating relinquishment Contemplating thus, he does not cling to anything in the world. When he does not cling, he is not agitated. When he is not agitated, he personally attains Nibbana.
Here’s the talks that Sam played:
https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/70820.html
Jack Kornfield 2022-05-16 53:39 The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom | Monday Night Talk
https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/48848.html
Carol Wilson 2018-02-18 57:43 Liberation through Non-Clinging: Undaunted Courage (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/42637.html
Joseph Goldstein 1999-02-17 62:19 Liberation Through Non-clinging
