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These Dharma talks were given by Reverend Master Eko Little, Abbot of Shasta Abbey, in Shasta Abbey's Buddha Hall, on Sunday mornings from 2003 through early 2007. In these Dharma talks, Rev. Master Eko draws his textual material from two printed versions of the “Awakening of Faith”, attributed to Asvaghosha. See Awakening of Faith, text sources lisn Form.

Scroll down this page to see all of the Awakening of Faith Series Talks, or use the following links to jump to a specific section:
#16 - 45 (2004) #46 - 72 (2005) #73 - 93 (2006) #94 - 95 (2007)
Talks 1 through 15 (2003)

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #1
(54 minutes, filesize: 9.34MB)
R.M. Eko Little 04/13/03


The Awakening of Faith: Talk #2
(40 minutes, filesize:6.33MB)
R.M. Eko 05/17/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #3
(50 minutes, filesize:8.66MB)
R.M. Eko Little 05/25/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #4
(56 minutes, filesize: 9.64MB)
R.M. Eko Little 06/01/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #5
(54 minutes, filesize: 9.60MB)
R.M. Eko Little 06/08/03,

 

 

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The Awakening of Faith: Talk #6
(50 minutes, filesize: 7.90 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 06/15/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #7
(41 minutes, filesize: 7.07 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 09/07/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #8
(55 minutes, filesize: 10.42 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 09/21/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #9
(54 minutes, filesize: 6.9 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 09/28/03


The Awakening of Faith: Talk #10
(58 minutes, filesize: 9.16 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 10/05/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #11
(54 minutes, filesize 9.99 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 10/19/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #12
(38 minutes, filesize:9.31 MB)
R.M. Eko Little 10/26/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #13
(38 minutes, filesize: 6.64MB)
The Storehouse Consciousness –
Aspects of Enlightenment

R.M. Eko Little 11/30/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #14
(38 minutes, filesize: 6.67MB)
Taking Refuge in Innate or Original Enlightenment
R.M. Eko Little 12/21/03

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #15
(44 minutes, filesize: 7.91MB)
R.M. Eko Little 12/28/03

Awakening of Faith Talks, #16 - 45 (2004) page up

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #16

(54 minutes, filesize: 9.41MB)
R.M. Eko Little 2/01/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #17

(42 minutes, filesize: 7.29MB)
R.M. Eko Little 2/08/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #18

(51 minutes, filesize: 8.82MB)
R.M. Eko Little 2/15/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #19

(40 minutes, filesize: 6.91MB)
R.M. Eko Little 2/22/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #20

(35 minutes, filesize: 6.13MB)
R.M. Eko Little 2/29/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #21

(52 minutes, filesize: 8.95MB)
R.M. Eko Little 3/07/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #22

(51 minutes, filesize: 8.82MB)
R.M. Eko Little 3/14/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #2
3
(46 minutes, filesize: 7.94MB)
R.M. Eko Little 3/21/04

 

 

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #2
4
(57 minutes, filesize: 9.93MB)
R.M. Eko Little 3/27/04

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #25

The Awakening of Faith:
Talk #26

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #27

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #28

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #29

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #30

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #31

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #32

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #33

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #34

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #35
The Permeation of Buddha Nature and Ignorance
R.M. Eko Little 3/27/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #36
The Permeation of Buddha Nature
R.M. Eko Little 10/10/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #37
The Permeation of Buddha Nature through External Infulences
R.M. Eko Little 10/17/04

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The Awakening of Faith: Talk #38
Conditions and the Dharma
are Just for Us
R.M. Eko Little 10/24/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #39
Attributes of Buddha Nature
and the Meaning of 'Great'
R.M. Eko Little 10/31/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #40
The Essence Itself and the Attributes of Buddha Nature
R.M. Eko Little 11/06/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #41
The Revelation of Meaning:
Dharmakaya and Tathagatagarbha
R.M. Eko Little 11/20/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #42
The Place of Deeper Faith: where things can be different and the same simultaneously
R.M. Eko Little 11/27/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #43
The Activity of Dharmakaya
R.M. Eko Little 12/12/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #44
Bodhisattvas Freeing Beings from the World of Sense
R.M. Eko Little 12/19/04

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #45
It's Not by Escaping Birth and Death
That We Find Buddha
R.M. Eko Little 12/26/04

Awakening of Faith Talks #46-72 (2005)
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The Awakening of Faith: Talk #46
Renunciation and Lay Life: the Trikaya
R.M. Eko Little 2/06/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #47
The Trikaya: One Essence Three Bodies
R.M. Eko Little 2/13/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #48
More on t he Trikaya: How Buddha Nature Manifests to Help Beings
R.M. Eko Little 2/20/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #49
The Eightfold Path, and Correction of Attachments
R.M. Eko Little 3/06/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #50
The Precepts are the Context for Correcting Attachments
R.M. Eko Little 3/13/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #51
Our Troubles are Embedded in Biased Views
R.M. Eko Little 3/20/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #52
The Mistaken View that the Dharmakaya is Nothing
R.M. Eko Little 4/10/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #53
Biased Views of Ordinary People;
Finding Buddha within Birth and Death
R.M. Eko Little 4/17/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #54
Tathagatagarbha Does Not Contain Defilements
R.M. Eko Little 5/01/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #55
How We Misperceive Ourselves;
How We Misperceive our True Selves
R.M. Eko Little 5/08/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #56
The Mahayana: Abandoning Narrow Views
R.M. Eko Little 6/19/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #57
Training and Enlightenment are One and the Same
R.M. Eko Little 7/03/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #58
The Aspiration of Faith in Thought, Speech and Deed
R.M. Eko Little 9/11/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #59
The Aspiration for Enlightenment through
Perfection of Faith
R.M. Eko Little 9/18/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #60
Commitment
R.M. Eko Little 9/25/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #61
Sudden or Gradual Enlightenment

R.M. Eko Little 10/02/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #62
The Three Minds

R.M. Eko Little 10/09/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #63
Taking Refuge

R.M. Eko Little 10/16/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #64
Faith is the Basis of the Path
R.M. Eko Little 10/23/05

 

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The Awakening of Faith: Talk #65 part 1
Non-AbidingR.M. Eko Little 10/30/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #65 part 2
Non-AbidingR.M. Eko Little 10/30/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #66
On SangeR.M. Eko Little 11/06/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #67
Taking Refuge
R.M. Eko Little 11/13/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #68
The Great Vow of Universal Salvation (I)
R.M. Eko Little 11/20/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #69
The Great Vow of Universal Salvation (II)
R.M. Eko Little 11/27/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #70
Sudana's Pilgrimage
R.M. Eko Little 12/11/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #71
Non-Reliance
R.M. Eko Little 12/18/05

The Awakening of Faith: Talk #72
The Six Paramitas
R.M. Eko Little 12/25/05

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Awakening of Faith Talks # 73-93 (2006)
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73. Developing the Aspiration for Intuition 2/5/06

74. True Intuition 2/12/06

75. Three Subtle Modes of Mind (Part 1) 2/19/06

76. Three Subtle Modes of Mind (Part 2) 2/26/06

77. Skillful Wisdom 3/05/06

78. The Interaction of the Three Subtle Modes of Mind 3/19/06

79. The Conversion of Ignorance 4/09/06

 

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80. The Four Faiths (Part 1) 4/16/06

81. The Four Faiths (Part 2) 4/30/06

82. Patience 5/21/06

83. Zeal 5/28/06

84. Cessation and Clear Observation
(Part 1)
6/04/06

85. Cessation and Clear Observation
(Part 2)
9/10/06

86. Cessation and Clear Observation
(Part 3)
9/17/06

 

 

87. The Relationship Between Cessation and Clear Observation 10/01/06

88. What Meditation Practice Shows 11/19/06

89. The Threefold Approach to Practice 11/26/06

90. The Dharma Protects the Dharma Practitioner 12/10/06

91. The Means of Keeping Focussed in One's Practice 12/17/06

92. The Ten Advantages 12/24/06

93. Seeing the Self Clearly 12/31/06

Awakening of Faith Talks 94 and 95 (2007)
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94. Seeing Clearly as a Means of Liberation 2007 95. One, Two, Three, Four, Five: A Summary of the Awakening of Faith 2007

 
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