2026-10-11 | Dharma Talk | Truth is a Verb | Nate Smalley

What if the Buddha’s first teaching wasn’t something to believe, but something to enact? Before the “noble truths” hardened into doctrine, the Buddha handed five skeptical friends four tasks: embrace life as it is, let the grasping be, notice when it falls quiet, and act from there. This talk, drawing on Stephen Batchelor, opens our practice-period series on the Eightfold Path. Each week, Appamada’s teachers will take up a different strand. What happens when you stop believing in the path and start walking it?