Im Buddhadharma bezieht sich Karma auf die Absicht, die hinter einer Handlung steht. Sie ist es, die wirksam ist. Der Buddha betonte die Wichtigkeit, unsere Absichten vor, während und nach dem Handeln, Sprechen und Denken stets zu prüfen. Der Vortrag geht auch auf den geschickten Umgang mit Fehlhandlungen ein und die Möglichkeit, sich immer wieder neu auszurichten.

A talk about how our benefactors impact us, wisdom and love they pass on from their benefactors and how we transmit those beautiful qualities to others who pas it on as well. No one "owns" those qualities. Rather we are part of a lineage of goodness.

What mindfulness is and why mindfulness of breathing is such a valuable meditation in our tradition.

We review what we’ve explored so far about practicing with conflict, including our conditioning and stereotypes about conflict (typically with views of conflict as negative), ways to bring our meditation practice into working with the “inner” states (emotions, thoughts, bodily states) that arise with conflict, and the “both-and” or “win-win” perspective on approaching conflict. We then bring in a further important resource—empathic understanding of another—outlining a simple way to “practice” empathy. We then work with an exercise bringing empathy to someone with whom one is in conflict. Then we discuss all of this.

Week 1 of a 6 week introductory course to Mindfulness Meditation. Starts with a 15 minute guided meditation followed by a 30 minute Dharma Talk followed by another 30 minutes of guided meditation and finally 15 minutes of discussion/Q&A led by Mark Nunberg

Mindfulness of feelings (vedana)