Restlessness, Rehabilitation vs. Reconciliation, Right Livelihood, US Wats | Parker #5 | 5.1.21

Dhammarato and Parker talk about restlessness, rehabilitation vs. reconciliation, right livelihood, and staying in wats in the United States.

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00:00:00 Restlessness, Kahler's Five Drivers
00:12:55 Right View & Right Effort: Cost-Benefit Analysis
00:22:40 Rehabilitation, not Reconciliation
00:36:00 The Means Justify the Ends... But There Are No Ends in the Dhamma, Right Livelihood
00:43:10 The Sangha
00:51:35 Western Buddhism is a One-Legged Stool
00:59:00 Competition Among Meditation Teachers in the West, The Open Sangha Foundation (https://opensanghacollective.org/), Wats in the United States
01:12:25 How to Stay at a Wat as a Lay Person (1/2)
01:18:44 The Origin of the Word Wat and the Actual Physical Wats
01:24:20 How to Stay at a Wat as a Lay Person (2/2)