What are the seeds that bring you to spiritual practice? What is life about? What is death…its significance, its meaning: Can I be happy? How can I live gracefully, peacefully in this life with all the challenges & difficulties in the changing world…with all the challenges within me?

Exploring the meaning and depth of mindfulness as the 1st Factor of Awakening. Exploring the first domain of mindfulness: mindfulness of the body.

Faith: a wholesome & beautiful mental favor that develops & blossoms through our practice. “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." — Henry David Thoreau

Exploring the freedom that is available with a clear and present mindful awareness of the ‘feelings’ of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.

Exploring mindfulness of the mind from the perspective of our experience of the transformation and relinquishment of affective states of mind.

Exploring how we can ground our practice in mindfulness of the truth of the way of things…the truth of the natural laws.

Exploring the ways that great dedication, enthusiasm, a balanced exertion, and a wholehearted endeavor nurture our practice in this process of awakening.

Exploring this 2nd Factor of Enlightenment as the active component of Mindfulness, with Investigation being the primary root for the arising of Wisdom.