Understanding how the practice of lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity provides a container for our understanding of emptiness--wisdom--that we learn in the mindfulness practice.
-"...couldn't you try just a little bit more?" - learning to recognize, develop and balance the 5 elements of effort: confidence, health, sincerity, energy and wisdom
two subtle but far-reaching attachments are: 1. to the false beliefs that we are: As solely products of our past conditioning B. that we are in control of the present circumstances 2. the conceit within the comparing mind. our relationship to the present situation can be unhealthy or it can lead to happiness. wise attention chooses one way, not the other
