Pain, How Dhamma Bends to Culture, Letting Go | Robert S #6 | 5.5.20

Dhammarato and Robert talk about pain, how the Dhamma is adopted by different cultures (Zen, Psychology), and letting go of concepts and enjoying the experience.

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00:00:00 Noble Right View expands
00:02:45 Chronic fatigue and breathing
00:05:38 Playing with the Dhamma with young people
00:07:30 History of feeling bad in Western society
00:13:12 The path is all about letting go
00:17:06 Letting go of concepts and living here now
00:20:05 Dhammarato's neck pain and chronic pain
00:23:26 Pain from trigeminal neuralgia
00:38:55 Modern medicine, identifying with pain
00:46:45 Dhamma and psychology—the puzzle is complicated before we put the pieces together, physics and unified field theory
00:55:16 How did Zen come into being?, Buddhism sneaks into cultures
01:05:23 Psychology and Buddhism in the West, the Dhamma is simple
01:10:31 Students let go of their effort, there are hinderances even in the Arahant's mind
01:14:33 Thinking we need things vs. things would be nice to do