After a review of understanding our practice most generally and deeply as developing responsiveness, we examine how to practice with thoughts and emotions, including difficult ones such as those connected with the judgmental mind and anger.
With wise and clear intention, we invite the conditions for transforming our heart-mind. We directly attend to the prickliness of aversion and resistance and open to the way things are.
Understanding Emotions and Trauma via the Lens of Right Effort". This talk was given together with Ayya Suvijjana. In it, Ayya Tathaaloka takes a Iook at natural emotions and possibly emotionally traumatic experiences in light of the "Four Bases of Right Striving" aka "Wise" or "Right" Effort in the Noble Eightfold Path.
Mudita is one of the divine Abodes. The quality of the heart that feels happiness for others' good fortune. An introduction followed by a 20 minute guided meditation.
We find what we look for. Our brains are wired to confirm our beliefs. One key to Metta practice is looking for the good. Then appreciating and enjoying it when it is recognized.
Many of us learn to be judgmental and critical, especially towards ourselves. Metta is a powerful practice to diminish and even transform the tendency towards judging.
Exploring what covers over our innate goodness, including near and far enemies of loving kindness (metta), attached love and hate, and how to uncover the beautiful qualities of our hearts.
The Buddha taught that this entire world arises out of the tip of intention. Intentions can arise from an egoic wants and fears, and they can arise from the wisdom of our heart that is calling us home. This talk explores the qualities that signify a liberating intention and how, by bringing presence to our current intention, we uncover the purity and power of our hearts true aspiration.
We focus on becoming response-able (rather than reactive) as the heart of our practice, examining what responsiveness means and how we cultivate it in relationship to thought and emotions.
As we learn to trust the middle way, we find that everyone is right here with us. As notions of self and other drop away, we arrive home, belonging to the totality of all that is.
In this talk Dhammaruwan tells stories that illustrate misperceptions and how clear seeing with the Dhamma returns us to the true intentions of the heart
We live under an enchantment that has us see ourselves and each other as separate egoic entities. This talk draws on an Arthurian legend and explores the pathways of presence that enable us to see past the mask - our own, others - and recognize the spirit that shines through these temporary incarnations.
This talk highlights how each step of the Eightfold Path leads to happiness. Bhante shows us how to practice with the path factors theoretically and practically in daily life.
The Buddha teaches freedom as the heart/mind that no longer leans on anything at all. And he also teaches a path where we learn how to lean skilfully on things that lead onward towards letting go.
