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How This Course Works
What This Lesson Is For
What People Think Buddhism Is
The Buddha and the Pragmatic Question
The Buddha's Pragmatism
The Two-Part Test
Putting the Test to Work
Knowing Together and the Five Tenets
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
Causality Comes First
The Formula of Conditionality
Between Fate and Randomness
The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination
One Turn of the Chain
Causality and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
A Practical Ethic We Can Use
Awareness: Seeing Where We Actually Are
Acceptance: Being with What Is Actually So
Action: Doing What Is Most Useful
The Three Checks Before We Act
The Father Who Still Drives
Distortions, Misreadings, and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
The Talk in the Deer Park
The First Ennobling Reality: Embrace the Dissatisfaction
The Second Ennobling Reality: Let Go of Reactivity
The Third and Fourth Ennobling Realities
The Four Realities and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
Why the Path Comes Fourth
The Three Groupings and the Wheel
Wisdom: How We See and What We Aim At
Ethical Conduct: How We Treat the World
Mental Discipline: Training the Mind
The Eightfold Path and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
Why We Sit
How to Sit and Why Each Instruction Is There
The Breath and a Busy Mind
The Four Foundations: What We Attend To
A Daily Practice, On and Off the Cushion
Five Common Difficulties and Practicing with Care
Zazen and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
Why We Keep a Record of Who Taught Whom
Chan and Zen: India, China, and Japan
Two Teachers Behind Ryugen: Matsuoka and Welch
Ryugen Fisher and American Chan
David Shaner and Practice in Motion
The Lineage and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
The Second Talk and the Three Marks
What Anattā Does and Does Not Say
Taking Yourself Apart: The Five Aggregates
The Chariot and the Social Self
George Herbert Mead, the Social Self, and Pragmatism
What Follows from Selflessness: Relief and Rebirth
The Social Self and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
What Karma Means
Karma Is How We Enter a Situation
Where an Action's Results Land
Harm We Did Not Intend
The Mirror and the Garden
The Three Pure Precepts
The Five Lay Precepts: Life, Generosity, and Moderation
True Speech, Lifelong Learning, and Breaking a Precept
Selfless Altruism and the Ethics of Care
Karma, the Precepts, and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
Intent
What a Ritual Is
What Ritual Does for a Group
An Evening at the St. Louis Center
The Opening: Bowing, Incense, and Sitting
The Close: Discussion, Merit, Svāhā, and the Bowl
Where Each Practice Comes From
Going for Refuge
The Pragmatic Test and Four Misreadings
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
What the Pali Canon Is
How to Read a Citation
Reading One Discourse
How Pragmatic Buddhism Uses the Discourses
How the Discourses Survived
How Good the Evidence Is
The Pragmatic Test and Three Misreadings
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
What This Lesson Is For
Words for Enlightenment
The Buddha's Awakening in the Early Texts
The Bodhisattva
Sudden, Gradual, and Practice-Realization in Zen
What Pragmatic Buddhism Means by Enlightenment
Signs That Practice Is Working
The Pragmatic Test and Four Misreadings
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
After the Course
Key Terms A–Z
Further Reading by Lesson
Pragmatism: The American Pragmatists
Pragmatic Buddhism: What Sets It Apart
Buddhism and Western Habits
The Pali Canon: How It Was Closed
The Discourses This Course Has Quoted
Ways to Practice With Us
Supporting This Course
How the Course Pages Work
Using the Community
Common Questions
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How This Course Works
Lesson 1: Pragmatism
What This Lesson Is For
What People Think Buddhism Is
The Buddha and the Pragmatic Question
The Buddha's Pragmatism
The Two-Part Test
Putting the Test to Work
Knowing Together and the Five Tenets
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 2: Causality
What This Lesson Is For
Causality Comes First
The Formula of Conditionality
Between Fate and Randomness
The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination
One Turn of the Chain
Causality and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 3: The Threefold Ethic
What This Lesson Is For
A Practical Ethic We Can Use
Awareness: Seeing Where We Actually Are
Acceptance: Being with What Is Actually So
Action: Doing What Is Most Useful
The Three Checks Before We Act
The Father Who Still Drives
Distortions, Misreadings, and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 4: The Four Ennobling Realities
What This Lesson Is For
The Talk in the Deer Park
The First Ennobling Reality: Embrace the Dissatisfaction
The Second Ennobling Reality: Let Go of Reactivity
The Third and Fourth Ennobling Realities
The Four Realities and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 5: The Eightfold Path
What This Lesson Is For
Why the Path Comes Fourth
The Three Groupings and the Wheel
Wisdom: How We See and What We Aim At
Ethical Conduct: How We Treat the World
Mental Discipline: Training the Mind
The Eightfold Path and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 6: Zazen
What This Lesson Is For
Why We Sit
How to Sit and Why Each Instruction Is There
The Breath and a Busy Mind
The Four Foundations: What We Attend To
A Daily Practice, On and Off the Cushion
Five Common Difficulties and Practicing with Care
Zazen and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 7: The Lineage of Pragmatic Buddhism
What This Lesson Is For
Why We Keep a Record of Who Taught Whom
Chan and Zen: India, China, and Japan
Two Teachers Behind Ryugen: Matsuoka and Welch
Ryugen Fisher and American Chan
David Shaner and Practice in Motion
The Lineage and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 8: Selflessness and the Social Self
What This Lesson Is For
The Second Talk and the Three Marks
What Anattā Does and Does Not Say
Taking Yourself Apart: The Five Aggregates
The Chariot and the Social Self
George Herbert Mead, the Social Self, and Pragmatism
What Follows from Selflessness: Relief and Rebirth
The Social Self and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 9: Karma and Ethics
What This Lesson Is For
What Karma Means
Karma Is How We Enter a Situation
Where an Action's Results Land
Harm We Did Not Intend
The Mirror and the Garden
The Three Pure Precepts
The Five Lay Precepts: Life, Generosity, and Moderation
True Speech, Lifelong Learning, and Breaking a Precept
Selfless Altruism and the Ethics of Care
Karma, the Precepts, and the Pragmatic Test
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 10: Intent, Ritual, and Going for Refuge
What This Lesson Is For
Intent
What a Ritual Is
What Ritual Does for a Group
An Evening at the St. Louis Center
The Opening: Bowing, Incense, and Sitting
The Close: Discussion, Merit, Svāhā, and the Bowl
Where Each Practice Comes From
Going for Refuge
The Pragmatic Test and Four Misreadings
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 11: The Pali Nikāyas
What This Lesson Is For
What the Pali Canon Is
How to Read a Citation
Reading One Discourse
How Pragmatic Buddhism Uses the Discourses
How the Discourses Survived
How Good the Evidence Is
The Pragmatic Test and Three Misreadings
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
Lesson 12: Enlightenment
What This Lesson Is For
Words for Enlightenment
The Buddha's Awakening in the Early Texts
The Bodhisattva
Sudden, Gradual, and Practice-Realization in Zen
What Pragmatic Buddhism Means by Enlightenment
Signs That Practice Is Working
The Pragmatic Test and Four Misreadings
Practice for This Month
Knowledge Check
Reflection
After the Course
Reference: Key Terms and Further Reading
Key Terms A–Z
Further Reading by Lesson
Pragmatism: The American Pragmatists
Pragmatic Buddhism: What Sets It Apart
Buddhism and Western Habits
The Pali Canon: How It Was Closed
The Discourses This Course Has Quoted
After Foundations
Ways to Practice With Us
Supporting This Course
Preview
Help
How the Course Pages Work
Using the Community
Common Questions
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