Ambition | Ferdinand

Ferdinand and Dhammarato discuss the way that ambition & desire fall away as one puts the path together, which creates space for more worthwhile acts such as sharing the dhamma.

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0:00 - Progress report
2:00 - Question re: goals & ambition
7:00 - Realistic metta; metta while traveling
9:30 - Is it really ok to deplete desire?
12:10 - What desires are there left?
14:30 - Old age, sickness and death
16:30 - Death according to Jimmy Durante
19:30 - Why stay?
22:00 - Dhamma & neuroscience
25:00 - Do something or enjoy things as they are?
27:30 - Dhammarato's teaching history
37:30 - The dhamma is counter-intuitive