Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner:
(i) Calming & stabilzing
(ii) Dis-identification and decentering
(iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation
(iv) The bigger Picture – gaining an universal perspective on the personal
Every moment of experience arrives simple and bare, but the mind rarely leaves it that way. This talk explores SN 35.95, the Māluṅkyaputta Sutta, and Māluṅkyaputta's insight that suffering is not in what we experience, but in what we add to it.
Satipaṭṭhāna as map of experience.
Somatic - hedonic - affective - discursive 'raw-materials' in these four categories.
Relationship between these channels.
Citta and the particular challenges with the states of the mind as objects of practice.
Establishing a somatic vocabulary for your moods.
The ending of something as an easy connection point to citta-states.
