Reflections on mettā practice as a way of re-appreciating our relationships

What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?

How might we respond to the results of the 2024 US election?

Looking at the common tendency to turn regular practice into a duty or chore, and the importance of appreciating the benefits that come from meditation using the criteria of the ten pāramī ie generosity, ethical integrity, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve and determination, mettā and equanimity

Looking at the conditioning that can get in the way of opening to pleasant experiences, using the framework of the three core personality types: greed, aversive and delusion

Tony talks about some of the themes from his new book Life Hacks from the Buddha

Looking at two common reactions to pleasant sense-based experiences: clinging or anxiety; and the Buddha's crucial distinction between sense-based pleasures, which tend to reinforce clinging, and the mental pleasure that comes from cultivating skilful mind-states

Cultivating muditā / appreciative joy or gladness as a skilful response to pleasure