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Book Club Recordings: After Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor
Tankmetal
August 29, 2020
3-13-21
in this session we finished the book.
3-6-21
In this week’s session we stopped in chapter 11 part (5)
2-27-21
in this session we finished chapter 9. We will skip 10 and start 11 next week.
2-20-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 9 part (6)
2-13-21
in this session we stopped at chapter 9 part 4
2-6-21
In this session we stopped in chapter 9 section (2)
1-30-21
In this session we stopped in chapter 7 at the paragraph “the person of self spoken of here is not an entity standing apart from life, who carries life’s burdens as thought is is separate”
1-9-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 7 section (4) we will pick it up there next week
1-2-21
for this session we ended up skipping chapter 6 and starting chapter 7, we are not fans of the overwrought historical sections. We stopped in chapter 7 section (2) at “Instead of trying to understand the the five bundles as five discrete components”
12-26-20
In this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the (7) section break
11-28-20
is this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the paragraph “as for what Gotama thinks of those who talk about the supreme”. this is a partial recording, we had technical difficulties but we got most of it. only the the last 15 minutes or so are cut off
11-21-20
in this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the paragraph “Here is a hypothesis for how this might have happened…”
11-14-20
this is the session for the eleventh of November
11-7-20
this is the session for Saturday the seventh of November
10-24-20
is this session we stopped in section 4 of chapter 4
10-10-20
In this session we stopped at the top of chapter 4, that’s where we we pick it up next week
10-3-20
In this session we stopped in chapter 3 at the paragraph stating with “the text has troubled traditional commentators…”
9-26-20
in this session we stopped in chapter 3 at the (5) section break
9-19-20
in this session we stopped in chapter 2 at the (2) section break starting with “Gotama described the shift from place to ground that constituted his awakening”
9-12-20
in this session we stopped in chapter 2 at the paragraph starting with “Mahānāma, the most prominent adherent of Gotama’s teaching in Kapilavatthu”
9-5-20
in this session we stopped at the top of chapter 2
8-29-20
this is our fist session for this book we started in the preface and ended in chapter one at a paragraph that starts with “The word religious is notoriously difficult to define”
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