Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 361351 Title: Early Teachings of the Buddha with Sarah Shaw Author: Sarah Shaw Narrator: Sarah Shaw Format: Unabridged Length: 06:47:12 Language: English Release date: 10-19-17 Publisher: Findaway Voices Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Buddhism, Religious Studies, Counseling & Inspirational Summary: This lecture series looks at several texts in the Pali Canon from theDgha Nikya, the collection of long discourses. Sarah explores the Buddhas teachings on subjects including meditation, ethics, meditative states and conditionality. This series is an excellent foundation for understanding the underpinnings of all Buddhist philosophy. The discourses are set within narratives of the Buddhas life. These texts have varied genres designed to have different effects. They range from prescriptive ways to apply the practice, to evocative imagery that symbolises the teaching, to ethical recommendations about how to act in the world. This course explains the context and background of these timeless teachings. - 1:Course overview. The historical and cultural background for the early suttas and the key teachings in Buddhist philosophy including the four noble truths and the eightfold path - 2:Samaññaphala-Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life, the stages of meditative absorption, thejhnas - 3:Mahsatipahna-Sutta: The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness, the four foundations of mindfulness - 4:TheMahsamya-Sutta and theMahsudassana-Sutta - 5:TheSangti-Sutta - 6:TheSiglovda-Sutta - 7:TheMahnidna-Sutta The Great Causes Discourse Sarah Shaw received her Phd in English from Manchester University. After studying Pali andSanskrit at Oxford, she beganteaching and writing on Buddhist subjects.She haswritten several books on meditation theory and practice,and jtaka literature and is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Contact: [email protected]

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