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Awakening from Conditioning:
The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness
This teaching from the Buddha gives us a firsthand experience of emptiness, conditionality and impermanence, though how he used these terms is not necessarily how they are popularly understood. Presented here is a series of essays that explore these terms, plus a full translation of and commentary on the discourse in which the Buddha gives us set-by-step instructions for doing the meditations focused on emptiness.
The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness
This teaching from the Buddha gives us a firsthand experience of emptiness, conditionality and impermanence, though how he used these terms is not necessarily how they are popularly understood. Presented here is a series of essays that explore these terms, plus a full translation of and commentary on the discourse in which the Buddha gives us set-by-step instructions for doing the meditations focused on emptiness.
Here is an interview I did with the Mind-Bod Adventure Pod podcast, not only going through the unfettering process, but also doing a guide version of the inquiry into Fetters 4 and 5 (Desire and Ill-will). This guided inquiry is accessible for anyone, not just those who are actively working with it.
https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/ten-fetters-kevin-schanilec
https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/ten-fetters-kevin-schanilec
This is an interview on the unfettering process with Ilona Ciunate on the Awakening Now podcast. Ilona is one of the founders of Liberation Unleashed.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2223929/episodes/14862645
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Self-Guiding Outlines
Here are suggested approaches you can use to work through specific fetters, which describe the information and exercises I suggest and use. These outlines can also be used to help guide others through the unfettering process. |
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Working with the Fetters
I have been doing a series of interviews with Angelo Dilullo, founder of the Simply Always Awake website and Facebook community, on the practical aspects of doing inquiry with the fetters.
I have been doing a series of interviews with Angelo Dilullo, founder of the Simply Always Awake website and Facebook community, on the practical aspects of doing inquiry with the fetters.
Reconciling the Heart Sutra
Its Context and Meaning
The Heart Sutra is one of the most popular Buddhist texts. Recent scholarship has shown that it was developed by extracting and editing selected passages from a particular section of a much larger text, translating those passages into Chinese, followed by re-translating it back into Sanskrit. Here I translate that section of the much larger text from the original Sanskrit, which allows an exploration of the context and meaning of the Heart Sutra that was lost in translation.
Its Context and Meaning
The Heart Sutra is one of the most popular Buddhist texts. Recent scholarship has shown that it was developed by extracting and editing selected passages from a particular section of a much larger text, translating those passages into Chinese, followed by re-translating it back into Sanskrit. Here I translate that section of the much larger text from the original Sanskrit, which allows an exploration of the context and meaning of the Heart Sutra that was lost in translation.