Buddha-Dhamma Series with Ayya Jitindriya ~ Session 1: The Liberating Insights of the 4-Noble Truths

In this six-part series Ayya Jitindriya discusses some of the key contemplative paradigms and practices in Early Buddhism. The sessions are approx. 2hrs+ long and include a guided meditation, a talk from Ayya Jitindriya, and live Q&A.
The series is not intended to be an exhaustive academic education on the subject of early Buddhism, but rather offers some lively extemporaneous reflections on these key paradigms, how we can apply them in practice, and what purpose they serve with regard to eliciting insight and freeing the mind from unnecessary cycles of suffering.

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐬

In this first session, Jitindriya introduces the Buddha-Dhamma series and lays out the context within which the Buddha’s teachings arose. She discusses the nutshell of these early Buddhist teachings – the Four Noble Truths – and describes how this paradigm functions, tracing the territory of experience from the conditioned to the unconditioned, and from the experience of dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness) to the end of dukkha (liberation/awakening). This supreme nutshell of a paradigm contains within it all the Buddha’s teachings on liberation. In its simplicity and directness, it functions as a single sign-post for the meditator, and a clear map of the territory of awakening, indicating the key insights that dispel delusion. In its complexity, it can be unfolded to reveal in detail all the different aspects of dukkha, how it comes to be, how it is allayed, and the various ways to develop skill and wisdom on the path of awakening.

Image Credit: The image used is from an original artwork entitled ‘Buddha Hand’ by Arundhati Warrier.

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