Is Meditation Necessary?

Is meditation necessary for our practice? Or does avoiding it make us "bad Buddhists" somehow? We'll look at that question and how it is reflected in an early dialogue the Buddha had with a laywoman about lay practice.

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Video mentioned:
The early doctrine of emptiness:    • Emptiness in Buddhism: Early Doctrine and ...  

Sutta mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/sn55.53/en/s...

Part of the impetus for this video came from the mention of this sutta over on a thread on Sutta Central. knotty36 mentions that Dhammadinna is actually a male name in this sutta, although that doesn't really change anything about the points made in the video. https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/...

On “aveccapasāda” (also consider the translations of Sujato at the above link and Bodhi. Bodhi: “confirmed confidence”): https://varado.home.blog/aveccappasada/

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