What is mindfulness? How does it function and most importantly how does it allow us to be present to our experience and bring about a spacious, non-reactive response to the moment, that facilitates freedom.
What we accept we go beyond: when we bring a kind and non-judging awareness to our experience we align ourselves with the truth of how things are and open to liberating insights that lead to release from suffering.
We review the Four Foundations with continued emphasis on the Fourth, including attention to a number of practical situations. Pt 1 of 2.
*There are a few minutes missed between pt 1 and 2. Part 2 is the wrap up of the talk.
Talk explores many doorways of investigating the te4achings on self and
no-self including developing a healthy sense of self.
the four S's of self
1. simple sense of self
2. solid sense of self
3. self-interested sense of self
4. social sense of self
After a review of the first three foundations, we look at the general nature of the Fourth Foundation of the specific frameworks used and some ways to practice.
