A multi media (poetry, song, music and spoken word) presentation on the evolution of King's Beloved Community to the Beloved Sangha and "Odharma" community
As meditators, it can be tempting to see the thinking mind as an enemy, but we can instead discover a wise and skillful relationship with it. This talk presents possible ways of working with the wide range of manifestations of thought: from papanca (proliferation) and obsession to creative, reflective and helpful thinking, to seeing the empty nature of all thought.
Today the three poisons (greed, ill will, delusion) also function collectively: our economic system institutionalizes greed, our militarism is institutionalized ill will, and the media institutionalizes delusion.
