Greed and Mindfulness of Death
Sit & Dharma Talk with SIM Community Teacher Rich Howard

N O T E  – Due to technical difficulties, we couldn’t include this talk in our Audio Dharma library.

Rich recently started a short series on working with the three roots of suffering – greed, hatred, and delusion. We looked at one version of hatred, anger, in February and one of its antidotes, patience, in March. On this evening, we will look at greed (desire, lobha, sensual attachment) and one of its antidotes – mindfulness of death (maranasati).

The Buddha said, “Mindfulness of death—when developed and pursued—is of great fruit and great benefit.” (AN 6:20)
What are some of the benefits of looking at a subject that our culture often goes out of its way to avoid? What are some contemporary practices that we may use to work with desire beyond the practices recommended for monastics in India in 500 BCE? As with the previous two sessions in this series, there will be handout of resources.

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