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RATNAGUNA ON THE TASTE OF FREEDOM
Other Resourses
The Taste of Freedom (1979)
Talk by Bhante – Video
The Taste of Freedom Revisited (2019)
Six talks by various Order Members
The Symbolism of the Cremation Ground and the Celestial Maidens (1972)
Sangharakshita
Freedom or Death (2019)
Jnanavava
Download
The Taste of Freedom eBook
We hope to have these booklets printed and available for sale in your bookshop soon.
In the meantime, please use and distribute this booklet for your course participants. Please use the links here for distribution, rather than this page.
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Document with single pages (often easier to use for printing)
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RATNAGUNA ON THE TASTE OF FREEDOM
In this video Ratnaguna shares some reflections on the theme. The contents here are not necessarily directly related to leading the course, but provide a fascinating source of material for further study, either with your team or as an addition to the existing course. See the course notes for more details.
Other Resourses
Talk by Bhante – Video
The Symbolism of the Cremation Ground and the Celestial Maidens (1972)
Sangharakshita
The Taste of Freedom Revisited (2019)
Six talks by various Order Members
Freedom or Death (2019)
Jnanavava
The Taste of Freedom
A practical course in freeing ourselves from what binds us
The point of being a Buddhist is to free ourselves from whatever keeps us trapped in a mundane and repetitive cycle. But how do we do that, and what does real freedom mean?
In this course we explore a pivotal point in the Buddhist path where we have our first taste of real freedom. Traditionally this is called ‘stream entry’ – we enter the stream that leads to the ocean of Enlightenment.
At this point we break three fetters that prevent us from entering the stream, or we could say, from reaching our full potential. We take a good look at these and see how they play out in our lives, both individually and collectively, and we explore ways in which we can loosen, and eventually break them.
Participants will receive the book A Taste of Freedom as part of the course.
The Taste of Freedom
A practical course in freeing ourselves from what binds us
The point of being a Buddhist is to free ourselves from whatever keeps us trapped in a mundane and repetitive cycle. But how do we do that, and what does real freedom mean?
In this course we explore a pivotal point in the Buddhist path where we have our first taste of real freedom. Traditionally this is called ‘stream entry’ – we enter the stream that leads to the ocean of Enlightenment.
At this point we break three fetters that prevent us from entering the stream, or we could say, from reaching our full potential. We take a good look at these and see how they play out in our lives, both individually and collectively, and we explore ways in which we can loosen, and eventually break them.
Participants will receive the book A Taste of Freedom as part of the course.