Today’s Dharma talk was an introduction of some homework and exercises for the week. I hope you will take a listen and learn about setting aside one day this week for your D-Day. Also I have given everyone a word of the week as well as the two aspects of the four part formula of NVC. It’s a relatively short talk today so spend a few minutes giving it a listen. Subscribe to my blog…
Nonviolent Communication from Dharma Talk given on 6/12/2011 Good morning, thank you all for coming to the temple this morning and joining together to practice the Lotus Sutra. Today and every Sunday through the entire summer (2011), 13 weeks, I will be devoting my Dharma talk time to teaching and leading learning in Nonviolent Communication. These will be structured sessions that will involve various activities and take-away practices. On some Sundays we will do a very…
Today our Dharma talk continues our study of Nonviolent Communication. The focus for the study today is on needs and our ability to know and communicate our needs. Needs is the third part of the four parts of the NVC formula; Observation, Feelings, Needs, Request (OFNR). Here is the Needs list used during the video Subscribe to my blog post newsletter [amazon_link asins=’1979530815,B00HTOFM44,1975689763,147834198X,0692257470,1979814023,1511592907,1726325520,1508534780,1492886041′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’ryusho0a-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b00ab74-b021-11e8-94bb-8388b7973e5c’]
Here is the video recording of today’s Dharma talk. Today we focused on the first of the four principles of Nonviolent Communication, NVC, Observation. When we can make observations that are free of value and judgement we begin to eliminate the suffering of self. Placing value on observations leads to suffering.
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