The Truth Of Happiness Course Talk on The Fire Discourse

About a month later the Buddha presented The Fire Discourse. At the time there were many different cuts, one of which was a cult that used fire worship in their rituals. The Buddha used this as metaphor to teach how we become aflame with passion through contact with our six-sense base. ..

TOH Tuesday Closing Talk

This is the closing talk for our Tuesday Truth Of Happiness ten-week Dhamma Study. This talk summarizes the dhamma study and includes very insightful Sangha Q&A and comments.

TOH Saturday Closing Talk

This is the closing talk for our Saturday Truth Of Happiness ten-week Dhamma Study. This talk summarizes the dhamma study and includes very insightful Sangha Q&A and comments.

Karma and Rebirth

This is an article and talk on Karma and Rebirth. Karma and Rebirth are misunderstood and misapplied key teachings…

Truth Of Happiness Week Eight Talk 2

This talk introduces the eighth week’s Truth Of Happiness course Dhamma study on The Five Clinging Aggregates. The week eight talks were presented over two classes. The first talk is on Dependent Origination and the second talk on The Five Clinging Aggregates.

Truth Of Happiness Week Seven Saturday Talk

This is a recording of the Truth Of Happiness course week seven Saturday class discussion and Q&A on developing the Eightfold Path as the broader framework for Shamatha-Vipassana meditation in the context of the Four Noble Truths.

Truth Of Happiness Week Five Saturday Talk

This talk introduces the fifth week’s Truth Of Happiness course Dhamma study on the virtuous factors of the Eightfold Path, Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood. Included at the end of the talk is a twenty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation. The talk concludes with Metta Intentional Meditation.