(PERSONAL CAT) We name, label and categorize experience through the process of perception. These perceptions are conditioned & therefore can be distorted. Learning to let perception do it's function & not to identify with it.
This talk continues the exploration of how the practice cultivates happiness and joy. Topics include mindfulness as appreciation, wonder, gratitude, bliss of blamelessness, letting go, mudita, friendship and liberation.
The Buddha valued "gladness connected with wholesome states." This is the first of two talks on the importance of inclining the mind toward happiness and joy as well as how to do it.
(PERSONAL CAT) Paying attention to the pleasant, unpleasant or neutral aspect of experience brings us right into experience before we react through likes & dislikes. This helps us to break the cycle of becoming.
Compassion is an attitude of facing reality with a noble heart, “noble” in two ways: 1. It is courageous and tender at the same time. 2. It is a heart that is able to open to the First Noble Truth.
Dharma practice has two functions: First it makes us healthy, then it makes us free. The talk explores both these phases, as well as their accompanying attitudes, and explores the process of healing in relation to fear.
(PERSONAL CAT ONLY)Continues the introduction to the aspects of experience that we so often cling to and moves more specifically into the material form.
