Seeing and Understanding
Speaker: Patrick Kearney (Joining *Location: In person at Western Sydney University (74 Rickard Rd, Bankstown City Campus), Room 1.4.34 on level 4 or Online (Zoom link below)
Cost: Free

Patrick’s talks will be on insight (vipassana), and specifically insight as understood in the Mahasi Sayadaw lineage.
Insight is characterised by universality. “Noting,” or directly awareing this-now, is characterised by particularity. The movement from the particular to the universal is the movement from mindfulness practice as a discipline to insight or understanding. Tonight we will explore this movement using the Buddha’s template of dependent arising (paṭiccasamuppāda). How can we recognise the universal through the lens of the particular, the unique, the individual? We begin with the Buddha’s understanding of the structures of experience itself and see where that takes us.

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