How our practice of connecting with and feeling our own stress strengthens our capacity to contain it. When we can contain it without contracting, we can access creative intelligence and compassion.
This talk looks at experience through the lenses of the Buddha's teaching in the five aggregates. We take a close look at the ways we cling to feeling, perception and formations.
A presentation of non-Buddhist perspectives on enlightenment through stories and quotes of Advaita (non-dualistic) teachers such as Ramana Maharshi,
Poonjaji, Eckhart Tolle, and Adyahshanti. The talk ends with a brief guided meditation.
As we study the Third Foundation of the Satipatthana Sutta we ask what is the mind and how does it seem to create a sense of self having the experience of an external world?
