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Pragmatic Buddhism

A Pragmatic Discussion of the Eightfold Path

June 5 · 52 min · Season 2 · Episode 15 · 50.6 MB
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What if Buddhism's core teaching wasn't a set of beliefs to accept, but a diagnosis and a prescription? In this dharma discussion, Danielle introduces the Four Ennobling Realities and the Eightfold Path and explains why Pragmatic Buddhism reframes "noble truths" as ennobling realities: practices you live, not doctrines you adopt. The conversation with the St Louis sangha moves from theory into real life: gossip at work, meditation that doesn't feel like it's working, what "skillful speech" actually means on a random workday.