Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way of relating to stress determines our happiness, and invites listeners to engage with practices that radically shift our response to stress and bring a healing and freeing evolution of consciousness.
After a review of what we've covered in past talks, we explore the four stages of transforming the judgmental mind, focusing more on the 2nd through 4th stages.
A secular talk on the wisdom of letting go that which we can't control (aging, death, others, etc.) and which we can through our words, actions and thoughts.
The earth touching hand gesture and the moment of great enlightenment. The turning of the wheel of Dhamma gesture and the Four Noble truths. More on the inside knowledge is of quote body and mind" and "cause and effect"
How do the three characteristics of existence - impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not self, apply to the teaching experience and how we hold that as a practice.
The average person operates under the assumption they are a person having experiences. If we look more deeply, we recognize it’s just experience, and experience creates the sense of a person having experiences. The ‘I’ who does things is the movement of kamma. ‘Myself’ is the results of what I hold into – what I incline to becomes the fundamental quality of ‘me.’
Imagine feeling at home wherever you are. Imagine feeling that your life is so complete - right here, right now - that you do not wish to be anywhere else. This daylong talk will provide the tools to experience this meditative presence wherever you are.
