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This podcast consists of Dharma talks given by Bhikkhu Cintita of the Sitagu Monastery in Austin, TX. Each talk illuminates some aspect of the Buddha's teachings. Bhikkhu Cintita (or "BC") is an American-born, Burmese-ordained monk in the Theravada tradition and a former Zen priest. Before that he was a professor and corporate researcher in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He has written five books on Buddhism and is always working on another.
Episodes
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Unmasking the world
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
This is the fifth talk delivered by Bhikkhu Cintita at the Satipatthana Rethought retreat held at the American Bodhi Center in Hemstead, Texas, May 24-27.
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Whose body and mind?
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
This is the fourth talk delivered by Bhikkhu Cintita at the Satipatthana Rethought retreat held at the American Bodhi Center in Hemstead, Texas, May 24-27.
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Seclusion, Samādhi and Jhāna
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
This is the third talk delivered by Bhikkhu Cintita at the Satipatthana Rethought retreat held at the American Bodhi Center in Hemstead, Texas, May 24-27.
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Observables and their contingencies
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
This is the second talk delivered by Bhikkhu Cintita at the Satipatthana Rethought retreat held at the American Bodhi Center in Hemstead, Texas, May 24-27.
Thursday May 30, 2024
Introduction to Satipatthana Rethought
Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
This is the first talk delivered by Bhikkhu Cintita at the Satipatthana Rethought retreat held at the American Bodhi Center in Hemstead, Texas, May 24-27.
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Contemplations of non-self
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Non-self is a practice more than it is a philosophical viewpoint. However, this practice begins with a conceptual investigation of the presumed experiential manifestations of the constructed self. (February 16, 2024)
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Samādhi in the earliest texts.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
This talk reviews what the early texts say about samādhi 'concentration', much of which may surprise you. This talk was originally presented on July 2, 2023 broadcast from Minnesota via Zoom to the English Dharma Group at Jade Temple in Houston Texas. (February 2, 2024)
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Was the Buddha a biologist?
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
“If consciousness were not to descend into the mother's womb, would name-and-form take shape in the womb?”
"No."
The most common traditional interpretation of this famous passage (from DN 15) is that consciousness travels into the womb to unify with the fetus of name-and-form at conception. I argue that this interpretation is untenable. (Rebroadcast 1/26/2024, originally broadcast 9/25/2020)
Friday Jan 19, 2024
What is the Buddha-Sasana?
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
The Buddha-Sāsana is Buddhism as a living tradition, something that evolves, spreads to new lands, dies out in old lands, rather than Buddhism as the Dharma, which is much more static. A key question for the Buddha seems to be is how well the Buddha-Sāsana would retain the authenticity of the Buddha-Dharma.