A question came up at the end of last week’s conversation about holding people accountable for their harmful actions, and if that was compatible with seeing everyone’s state as a product of conditions, and therefore not completely their “fault.” The question, and the standard answer (that people are still responsible for their actions), lean on the difficult doctrines of karma and not-self, so we spent an extra week with them.
(Recorded on 10.31.17 at Insight Meditation Satsang, Berkeley, CA)

Chanting & Meditation: This was the final week of the month, when we always do the full Refuge & Precepts pūja. This month we experimented with embedding the meditation and the chanting of the sutta within the chanting sequence, as I suggest doing in home practice. We’ll probably do more of this. (———–LINK BROKEN———You can download the text in PDF form here.)