Topics Include: 1) The definition of shame and fear of harming: protectors of the world. 2) Two fundamental ideas as the foundation of the Dharma: the Law of Karma and the Principle of Ahimsa. 3) Understand shame and fear as guardians of the world by how they prevent us from performing harmful and unwholesome actions. 4) How the idea of non-self explains our interconnectedness with all other beings. 5) The nature of moral shame. 6) The nature of moral fear or dread. 7) The capacity to change our behavior. 8) The difference between consciousness and unconsciousness in Buddhist thought.
August 6, 2022
38 min.