"The Human Condition" p. 1-40

These 40 pages are easy reading but heavy hitting on Mortality, Disease, Lust, Pride, Aversion, Lies and Conflict. Take your time and know our entire range of human emotions are fair territory here. Focus can be difficult, but the words are dense with meaning. Try Reading With Pen in Hand if it helps.

We approach the earliest written record of Buddha's teaching on purpose. We recapture literate history for our own voices. This is one way to dig deeper and sturdier roots for ourselves. Our approach seeks Original words very much on purpose. These are not quick fixes.

Goal Seekers of our various kinds gathering should anticipate results from this group after about 3 to 6 months of patient reading and group examination and dialectic Q&A. Think of our souls or living bodies as guitars or pianos. They do not stay in tune and scriptural tuneups are part of playing our instruments.

I will work on a very schematic outline of ways existing traditions differently approach Buddhism to help us all figure out and understand our own approaches and new possibilities.

One Sterling reason to attack this scripture is to pass it on yourself going forward. This is survival wisdom worth teaching to our young, old, capable or needy.