(PERSONAL CAT) We name, label and categorize experience through the process of perception. These perceptions are conditioned & therefore can be distorted. Learning to let perception do it's function & not to identify with it.
This talk continues the exploration of how the practice cultivates happiness and joy. Topics include mindfulness as appreciation, wonder, gratitude, bliss of blamelessness, letting go, mudita, friendship and liberation.
The Buddha valued "gladness connected with wholesome states." This is the first of two talks on the importance of inclining the mind toward happiness and joy as well as how to do it.
