DP #12 Stephen Batchelor - World in a Single Atom

Recorded at Upaya Zen Center, June 2nd, 2006 Evening Session from "A Retreat on the Secular Buddha" Time: 52:25 As humans we appear to have the tendency to go beyond and outside of ourselves, to rely on something or someone external to us for our salvation. However, the Buddha suggested that our true experience arises out of our relationship with the material, messy, contingent world The Buddha acknowledged that we seem to possess an innate need to split things off from each other, to continually live in a world of duality. Stephen describes the Buddha's method of devising "lists" as a move away from a dualistic perception of the world by breaking things up into ever increasing categories. Stephen quotes Luther as an example of a person who entered into his own relationship with god, without the intervention of an intermediary. He said "No" to a distant omnipotent authority figure, and brought power back into the lives of ordinary people. We gratefully thank our friend of Upaya, Ottmar Liebert for his contribution of music and bells used in our Podcasts. LINKS EMAIL Upaya JOIN our notification list Dharma Podcast site Upaya Zen Center Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra Kazuaki Tanahashi's web site Brush Mind Stephen Batchelor How to listen to this Podcast: Click on the icon next to the show title to "stream" the show. Click on the player to listen to the "most current" Podcast. OR make it simple and subscribe via iTunes, which makes it very easy. To download the MP3 audio file, click on the Direct download link below. Install iTunes: In preparation for subscription and playback of the Dharma Podcast, click here to download and install iTunes. Notification list: We also suggest you JOIN the notification list. This way you will receive a notice when a new Podcast has been posted.