Assertiveness and the Dhamma: Creating Your Heaven on Earth | The Sangha UK #5 | 9.26.21

Dhammarato circles around the word "assertiveness" in regard to the Dhamma when Debbie raises a question about being Noble. During the wide ranged conversation, the participants of this weekly call touch upon such subjects as synchronicity, attaining the first jhana, guidelines for ordination to become a monk, learning from failures by becoming curious instead of staying doubtful, and ways of handling tense situations and keeping your coolness.

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0:00 Vows and oaths for ordinary people

4:10 Lowest quality of humanity. Ordinarty right view and wrong view

9:00 Guilt and shame to control people's behavior. Collectivist vs individualist societies

18:55 Magic vs Real

22:15 Rules and boundaries akin to cruches or walking sticks

23:58 AI and lack of rules triggering faster self-learning mechanism

27:10 Synchronicities

32:54 The ways and guidelines to become a monk. Combination of noble and lay ways of living

1:00:00 Retreat: West and East

1:03:50 Becoming confident at your ability to handle any kind of mess

1:07:55 Create your own heaven on earth

1:21:50 First Jhana and spreading the light

1:26:20 Confusion in wanting to know. Relaxation in being at awe with what we don't know

1:32:32 Doubt vs curiosity

1:43:00 Best way to handle a conflict: GET OUT