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The Dalai Lama Essential Writings Session 2 -
The Teachings of Buddhism
1. General Introductions 2. Editor Forsthoefels
introductory points. 3. Break 4. Excerpts from
the documentary 10 Questions for the Dalai
Lama By Rick Ray (48 min)
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General Introductions

• Opening
• The plans and hopes of the course.
• Introductions and expectations.
• Course Internet Aspects
• ASDM website
• stdavidscalgary.net
• The 23 study archives
• bookstudies.stdavidscalgary.net
• This study
• dljv.stdavidscalgary.net
• stdavids forum on yahoo

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Editor Forsthoefels Introductory points.

• Books organization
• Introduction to Buddhist Teaching
• The three pillars of Buddhism
• Wisdom
• Morality
• Meditation
• Perspectives on the Religions of the World

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Introduction to Buddhist Teaching
Spiritual transformation per Forsthoefel, isnt
becoming something you are not it is becoming
more who you are.
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Introduction to Buddhist Teaching

• The appeal of Buddhism in the West is due to
• The erosion of reason in the postmodern world.
• The consequence of materialism, war, ideologies
  and cynicism.
• Alienation due to religious control, sexism, and
  patriarchy.
• That Buddhism is emminently rational and
  therapeutic.
• That it strives to see things as they really
  are.
• That it is focused on the person and resistant to
  authority.
• That it is not about belief and little to do
  with God.
• That a key quality of all human beings is a deep
  holy longing.
• That this impulse finds new expressions
  continuously in history.

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The Eightfold Path

• Right View
• Right Intention
• (Wisdom)
• Right Speech
• Right Action
• Right Livelihood
• (Ethical Conduct)
• Right Effort
• Right Mindfulness
• Right Concentration
• (Mental Development)

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The Four Noble Truths

• Life means suffering.
• The origin of suffering is attachment.
• The cessation of suffering is attainable.
• The path to the cessation of suffering
• is the eightfold path.

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Emptiness each is part of all.
Lynn Chazotsang last Monday commented often on
the Buddhist concept of Emptiness. The meaning
is not nihilism, or that nothing actually exists,
but that nothing has meaning by itself, that
nobody has meaning my them- self. Each and all
have meaning only in their relationship to
others.
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Compassion our common purpose.
Inter-Faith dialogue today is less about
belief, and more about sharing our service to
humanity. The Dalai Lama is in Vancouver 26 - 29
Sep. for the Vancouver Peace Summit. At the
Nobel Laureates in Dialogue Connecting for
Peace, Karen Armstrong will announce her The
Charter for Compassion (TED prize project) The
Dalai Lama is in Calgary 30 Sep 2 Oct.
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The Dalai Lama Essential Writings Session 2 -
The Teachings of Buddhism
BREAK 15 minutes of emptiness Re-discovering
we exist only in relationship.
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The Dalai Lama Essential Writings Session 2 -
The Teachings of Buddhism
Excerpts from the documentary 10 Questions
for the Dalai Lama By Rick Ray You may need
to click on the image next slide to begin
play. This is a low def 48 minutes excerpt from
the movie. The full 1.5 hr hi def version is
available at Apple itunes for only 10 and is
much recommended.
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The Dalai Lama Essential Writings Session 2 -
The Teachings of Buddhism
You may click on the image above to start and
pause play. This is a low def 48 minutes excerpt
from the movie. The full 1.5 hr hi def version
is available at Apple itunes for only 10 and is
much recommended.