Dhamma Talk - Contemporary Theravāda (Live Stream)

In the modern Burmese insight movement students are trained in classical insight meditation (vipassanā bhāvanā). They attain a level of understanding (ñāṇa) and return to their normal lives. If the students are Burmese Buddhists, they enter the meditation centre from a deep intuitive understanding of their own tradition and return to this tradition, where they can now make sense of what happened to them inside the centre. But what about students from outside the world of Theravāda Buddhism? How can they make sense of a practice designed for faithful Theravāda Buddhists? In this talk we will take this question as a starting point for exploring the currents within contemporary Theravāda Buddhism and ask: Where do we stand in this situation? Where does a centre like the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre stand? How does the Buddha Dharma find its own uniquely Australian character without losing the depth of the traditions it is emerging from?

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This talk follows on from Patrick’s talk last week on the The Genealogy of Insight  – click here to access the recording