Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Podcast available – the last three folds of the eight-fold path

Hi all. After conquering many new apps and open source programs I’ve taught myself how to get recorded talks from my phone into mp3 format, edit them and publish them on here through dropbox. I can’t say I ever had a burning desire to learn these skills but the upside is it’s allowed me to put the first podcast up on this site which is a talk given by Winton Higgins late last year on the last three folds of the eight-fold path (effort, mindfulness and concentration). I requested this talk primarily because I didn’t feel I really understood the last fold which is usually called ‘concentration’. As you’ll find out, it doesn’t mean concentration in the way we tend to use the word. A better term is ‘mental integration’.

The recording was done as part of our weekly sangha meets – outside on the deck in a bush setting, so you’ll hear an owl, some kookaburras and a few other outdoor noises…as well as a few left of centre questions by a blow-in sangha attendee. My next lesson will be how to filter out a bit of that (not the owl and the kookaburra of course). It’s a pretty good recording though. Here’s a quick link to the dropbox file. Enjoy!
Warm regards
Lenore

2 comments:

  1. Ramsey Margolis on January 21, 2013 at 2:41 pm said:

    Thank you so much for making this recording of Winton’s dharma talk available, LenorĂ«. I’m looking forward to listening to it, to sharing it with the small secular sitting group in Wellington, and to welcoming WInton to New Zealand. He’s going to be running a workshop here on Feb 16 & 17.

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  2. Wonderful result! The recording was done as part of our weekly sangha meets – outside on the deck in a bush setting, so you’ll hear an owl, some kookaburras and a few other outdoor noises as well as a few left of center questions by a blow-in sangha attendee. I requested this talk primarily because I didn’t feel I really understood the last fold of customessaydeal.com which is usually called ‘concentration’.

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