An overview of the five hindrances and clarifying the place of desire in the practice.

The Sacredness of the Hindrances generally. Working with sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt.

Revisiting the hindrances of sense-desire and ill-will

a Reflection and Guided Meditation on the Five Hindrances and Earth Awareness

This talk, focused primarily on Sense Desire and Aversion also emphasizes all hindrances as a doorway for awakening.

An attitude of gratitude and acceptance.

Hindrances, Vedanā, and Reactivity, and How it Feels to Feel, and to Free

Understanding the necessity and importance of the hindrances in our awakening practice.

Shaila Catherine describes how the wholesome state of mettā serves not only as an antidote to anger, fear, and ill will, but is also a force that can overcome all the hindrances. A mind imbued with mettā is both strong and yielding; it is balanced and upright. Mettā contributes to both the development of samādhi and also insight. A mind strengthened by mettā will be able to face the unsatisfactory conditions of dukkha with clarity and balance, without blaming society, and without getting angry at other people. Mettā training gives us a way to take responsibility for cultivating happiness. When our minds are well developed, we will dwell at ease, in comfort, free from the hindrances, primed for abandoning lust, hate, and delusion.

Gullu explores the 5 hindrances (nirvanas) and how to work with them skillfully, allowing them to be teachers rather than enemies.

"I'll meditate observing an aspect of Dhamma" from AN 8.63, specifically looking at the five hindrances from the Satipatthana Sutta.

By opening to the perspective of everything arising and passing away in the space of awareness we see through the illusion of separation, directly experiencing anatta, the selfless nature of reality. We also let go of identifying with hindrances and and other ways we identify with the natural unfolding of experience. This talk includes an exploration of the Kashmir Shaivism text "Realization of Our True Heart."

Mindfulness of the five hindrances

Welcome and Introduction to the Session, Settling Meditation, Teaching, Guided Meditation.

Identifying pleasant/unpleasant/neutral vedanā and their relationship to the five hindrances.

Identifying the five hindrances as the object of our meditation can loosen the grip of self identification with these often unpleasant mental states.

Exploring conditionality as an aspect of Right View; understanding what conditions support freedom and what conditions get in the way; includes a brief exploration of the five hindrances

Guided Meditation

Meditation instructions.

Creatively engaging with what clouds our minds and hearts, particularly in the context of social engagement.

Navigating the challenges of practice with curiosity.

Teaching and guided practice on working skillfully with challenging states of mind and heart.

Hindrances – growth along the path, and the utility of engaging them for growth and deepening of practice

A Summary of the Five Hindrances and the Seven Factors of Awakening

Teachings on the five hindrances and how to hold them with equanimity. Making friends with our beautiful monsters.

Questions are précised and read into the file: 00:38 Q1 Buddhist cosmology I find terribly overwhelming. If I just focus on what is helping me, will I be missing out on much? 02:07 Q2 I really value your teaching that it all comes back to clinging. 02:55 Q3 Yesterday you mentioned a shift that can be sensed before the tone of pleasant or unpleasant actually arises. Can you say anything more about this shift before the vedana quality actually appears? 04:23 Q4 This seems so interwoven. I guess it's a tangled skein. 12:17 Q5 You mentioned that it was helpful to point the citta towards kaya sankara rather than the vaci sankara. Is that what allows the development of equanimity? 16:52 Q6 I am confused. Are the heart and the citta two different things? 19:44 Q7 About the taints/ asava, is this a linear sequence? 28:15 Q8 Isn't part of the beauty of what you've done with samadhi as well is that to enter samadhi you've experienced non-fabrication of the 5 hindrances. 30:13 Q9 When I practice the jhanas I find I get to a certain point where I can't get further into calmness. Is that where I should start to investigate? 35:13 Q10 I have a resistance to being grounded. It seems I prefer the fizzy state. 42:37 Q11 In relating to signs and to being able to set signs aside, what role does beauty play in the dhamma? 44:58 Q12 Could it mean that it reduces the energy in unhelpful sankaras? Q13 There might be a time when I'm experiencing an upset and I would just put myself in front of a tree and the experience of viewing, considering the tree gives time for the capacity to identify with something wholesome and helpful.