The Teaching Is Simple: Just Be Here Now | Dan C

Dhammarato and Dan talk about pattern matching, rule following, being here now, Eckhart Tholle, and the Eightfold Noble Path.

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00:00 Pattern matching and different backgrounds coming to the Supramundane Dhamma and Buddhism
02:58 People with a superstitious background and rule-orientation practice anapanasati first, then they learn the teachings
05:47 Some can understand the teachings of the Buddha quickly without meditation
10:20 The mind continuously goes to the past, SN 56.31 - Simsapa Sutta the handful of leaves
21:20 Eckhart Tholle's path, complaining is only about the past
27:32 Humans are pattern matching machines, Story about music school, Change the 10,000 years of unwholesome patterns
34:27 Instincts, dogs, society, bait and switch materialism (The Century of the Self)
48:12 The four bases of power
50:39 Right Sati, Right Effort, Right View, and Right Attitude
52:44 Wrong View, Right View, Supramundane Right View