2023-12-09 | Day 3 | Rohatsu Intensive | Eight Fold Path | Ellen Hippard and Laurie Winnette

00:00:26 - Ellen Offers a Dharma Talk - Teachings - The eight Fold Path 00:00:49 - The Bodhisattva vow and the Four Noble Truths are inseparable 00:04:06 - The Eight Fold Path Components 00:07:30 - Right View 00:07:49 - Right Intention 00:09:23 - The Buddha Names 3 Intentions that Cause Suffering - - Grasping, ill-will and Cruelty 00:11:45 - First Category of the 8 Fold Path - The Wisdom Category - Right View - Right Intention - Supports the Ethics Category 00:12:05 - Second Category of the 8 Fold Path - Ethics Category -Right Speech - Right Action and Right Livelihood 00:16:34 - Third and Final Component of the 8 Fold Path - The Concentration Category - 00:17:06 - The Concentration Category - Right Effort - Right Mindfulness - Right Concentration 00:27:42 - Ellen Invites Questions 00:29:35 - Book Recommended - Steps to Liberation: The Buddha's Eightfold Path Paperback – by Gil Fronsdal - Also Readings by Analyo 00:31:33 - Awakening together - Embarking on a Year Long Study of the Eight Fold Path - Teachers Ryan and C.J. - https://www.awakeningtogetherzen.org/ email: [email protected] 00:35:39 - Breakout Room Exercise - Laurie Offers Questions for the Exercise(Questions Below)10 Minutes to write - 25 Minutes to write. - 10 Minutes to share - then 10 minutes in the big group 00:36:21 - HOSTILITY - 1) Think about ways anger and hostility appear in your life 00:37:03 - 2) Do your actions cause harm, even in minor ways? 00:37:22 - 3) How are you harmed (mentally) when you express hostility? 00:37:45 - 4) As you consider the affects of your hostility, how are you effected by this reflection? 00:38:17 - COMPASSION - 1) Reflect on your relationship to compassion. 00:38:32 - 2) What role has compassion had in your life— both receiving of it and offering compassion to others? 00:38:59 - 3) How does it feel to be compassionate? 00:39:04 - 4) How might it benefit you if you cultivated more compassion? 00:39:18 - 5) How can you have more self-compassion? 00:39:27 - Participants Go into Breakout Rooms to Write for 25 Minutes - Share for 10 Minutes Together MB