Teacher: Christopher Ash

Weekly Conversations

When a specific course is not happening, I open up our Zoom venue each Sunday at 4:00 PM, Sydney-Melbourne time, for conversation. These weekly Kalyanamitta meetings are open to those who have done my courses or have made an arrangement with me personally.

If there is a topic designated for the Sunday meeting, it will be listed below in the events.

Courses

Any courses will be on Zoom; and all are held on Sundays at 4:00 PM, Sydney-Melbourne time. In between courses we enjoy our regular conversations.

Individual Sessions with Christopher

If you have any questions about the approach to the Dharma, or feel in need of support, I’m available for one-on-one sessions.

In case there is extra content, click on the heading-link for the particular course.

Event Information:

  • Sun
    25
    Sep
    2022

    I of the Beholder: Experience of Subjectivity and Objectivity

    4:00 amOnline

    This week: Week 5 - Chapter Five: The Experience of Subjectivity and Objectivity, from Sue Hamilton-Blyth's I of the Beholder.

    FOR THE FIFTH WEEK, the topic includes that: your sentient processes, your ‘lived world' (loka), includes your co-generated process of 'subjectivity and objectivity.’  Sue Hamilton-Blyth writes, “In order for something to be known at all, it is necessary for there to be a subject who is objectifying it. And conversely, objectivity, which one may also understand in terms of all of what is known, is itself entirely dependent on the functioning of a subject.” (Beholder, p.127)

    Future weeks' topics:
    Week 6 - Chapter Six: The Structure of Experience.
    Week 7 - Chapter Seven: The Limits of Experience.
    Week 8 - Chapter Eight: A World of Metaphor: Continuity, Death and Ethics.
    And, the ninth and closing session (23 October) will be focussed on the book's postscript: On What is a human being?

    As always, in my courses, bodily-felt experience is the touchstone. I will invite participants to consult their bodily-felt meaning of the Buddhist concepts, and to experience the vision in terms of a 'process orientation.' If you have some 'Focusing' experience, this course is made for you. If not, you will learn, as we proceed, to use your body's 'felt sense' for insight.

    Reference: Sue Hamilton-Blyth, Early Buddhism - A New Approach: the I of the Beholder. (2000) Curzon.

    Christopher Ash, 18 September 2022.