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Buddha-Sasana

Bhikkhu Cintita

This podcast consists of Dharma talks given by Bhikkhu Cintita of the Sitagu Monastery in Austin, TX. Each talk illuminates some aspect of the Buddha"s teachings. Bhikkhu Cintita (or "BC") is an American-born, Burmese-ordained monk in the Theravada tradition and a former Zen priest. Before that he was a professor and corporate researcher in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He has written five books on Buddhism and is always working on another.

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18:25

Discovering Buddhism

Buddha-Sasana ·

2023/01/27

I begin to tell my own “way seeking mind” story of how I first came to Buddhist practice. (Through the Looking Glass 1, 1/27/2023)

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22:10

Final notes

Buddha-Sasana ·

2023/01/20

We review Buddhism’s unique roles in the symbolic/transcendent world. (Buddhism as Self-Help 18, 1/20/2023)

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20:57

The transcendent dimension

Buddha-Sasana ·

2023/01/13

We look at how Buddhism fits into the symbolic structures of social cognition: the sacred, myth, ritual and community, and how meaning, motivation and supramundane experience are rooted there. (Buddhism as Self-Help 17, 1/13/2023)

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20:19

Ordering the world symbolically

Buddha-Sasana ·

2023/01/06

Social cognition works symbolically. We continue our understanding of the constructed symbolic world in terms of myth and the sacred and their influence on human behavior. (Buddhism as Self-Help 16, 1/6/2023)

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22:30

The serious life

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/12/30

Symbolism provides the workings of social, cooperative life. We discuss the ubiquity and importance of ritual and then the ethic of living by vow, with examples from the Zen tradition. (Buddhism as Self-Help 15, 12/30/2022)

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19:47

Supramundane experience

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/12/23

Lasting well-being is possible within the selfless, pro-social, cooperative world. We discuss moral communities, when they go wrong and the Buddhist resources that make them work. (Buddhism as Self-Help 14, 12/23/2022)

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19:40

Mundane feelings

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/12/16

The Buddha divides thoughts into wholesome and unwholesome. The mundane unwholesome search for hedonic pleasure necessarily fails to produce lasting well-being for modern psychological and evolutionary reasons. (Buddhism as Self-Help 13, 12/16/2022)

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21:52

The Sangha of non-selves

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/12/09

The monastic Sangha provides a context in which social conditions that presuppose a self are excluded. (Buddhism as Self-Help 12, 12/9/2022)

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20:07

The sociocultural non-self

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/12/02

A quick tour of various societal structures gives us an idea of where a non-self might be able to live and thrive. (Buddhism as Self-Help 12, 12/2/2022)

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19:07

The Dharma strikes back

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/11/25

Contrary to being the ideology of global capitalism, Buddhism is only marginally about self-help under adverse social conditions, but intrinsically concerned with improving social conditions. (Buddhism as Self-Help 10, 11/25/2022)

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20:16

Practice in a social context

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/11/18

The Buddha made clear that the success of our practice depends critically on an appropriate social context for practice. Self-help focuses on practice in inappropriate contexts. (Buddhism as Self-Help 9, 11/18/2022)

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20:11

Self-presentation

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/11/11

We look at the social psychology of managing our self-image in social contexts as a source for the ego-self and the authentic self, and how individualism is nonsensical. (Buddhism as Self-Help 8, 11/11/2022)

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20:36

The sociocultural self

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/11/04

We discuss self-presentation as an individual adaptation to survival in the sociocultural matrix. (Buddhism as Self-Help 7, 11/4/2022)

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21:14

Individual and social cognition

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/10/28

Humans are fundamentally cooperative and social creatures. We show that most significant individual cognition serves social cognition, drawing significant differences between humans and other apes in this regard. (Buddhism as Self-Help 6, 10/28/2022)

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20:09

Buddhist self/modern self

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/10/21

We discuss Buddhist practices for deconstructing the thing-self, and then how modern Buddhism is interpreted in terms of the modern authentic self. (Buddhism as Self-Help 5, 10/21/2022)

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19:52

The rise of the authentic self

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/10/14

We discuss how the ego-self is produced through appropriating assets as “me” and “mine” in Buddhist thought, and then how the historically evolved self in the west became the authentic self. (Buddhism as Self-Help 4, 10/14/2022)

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19:37

The history of the self

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/10/07

We discuss the thing-self in Buddhist thought, and the evolution of the self in European history. (Buddhism as Self-Help 3, 10/7/2022)

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19:42

Buddhist self/modern self

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/09/30

The Buddha analyzed the self at two levels: the thing-self and the ego-self. We use the ego-self, produced in becoming, to begin the analysis of the evolving western sense of self and its shadow sense of lack. (Buddhism as Self-Help 2, 9/30/2022)

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18:55

Buddhism as self-help: introduction

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/09/23

Has Buddhism become “the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism"? (Self-Help 1, 9/23/2022)

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20:56

Locating “mindfulness” in the early Buddhist Texts

Buddha-Sasana ·

2022/09/16

I argue that modern “mindfulness” corresponds pretty closely to ‘samādhi’ in the early Buddhist texts. (9/16/2022)

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