John Peacock - We are meditating to be in this world in a different way

In June 2024, London Insight Meditation hosted John Peacock for a workshop exploring the cultivation of awareness and ethics. Here John speaks of the relationship between these key Buddhist practices.
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JOHN PEACOCK
John Peacock is a retired academic and practitioner for over fifty years. He studied initially with the Tibetan community in India and subsequently in Sri Lanka. His academic career consisted in teaching philosophy, Buddhist studies and finally Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy at Oxford.
He was one of the founding members of Bodhi College and is committed to making Buddhist teaching relevant in the contemporary era.
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LONDON INSIGHT MEDITATION
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[@DohcHama]

Great talk. Very revealing and engaging.

[@paulm7826]

12:15 "Answers are not very useful". What a fascinating point (in this context). Many other helpful ideas too - eg think of metta as "friendliness" or "goodwill" rather than as "loving- kindness". Excellent talk by John Peacock. Thank you.

[@jasontrukatzenjammer]

MP3 download link of this talk?

[@londoninsightmeditation]

Hi there. You can stream or download talks from our events on our website: www.londoninsight.org/audio/.

[@4imagesmore]

Uncommon commonsense.