Three Main Components to Dharma

Rough unedited transcript 

When we look at the dharma as a whole, as we've talked about before, There are three main components to it. In practice. There is the cultivation of insight. Which is basically big. The not just the intellectual understanding, but the felt sense. That there's no fixed self here. And the other way of saying that is that everything is interconnected, everything is a whole, you can't just talk about separate things and separate parts. Everything is connected to everything else. So the more Quick at that clarity. You know, experience that everything is into connected. Then that naturally leads to more altruism and more empathy. Because if everything is myself, than i want to look after it others, as i would myself. So it comes from that place. And the other aspect of practice is meditation. And it's through meditation that we develop a more refined sensitivity, particularly through the body, that's clearer, more discerning. 

The Buddhist and the Ethicist. A book review talk by Geoff Dawson, March 19, 2024 Ordinary Mind School of Sydney