Cultivating the four qualities of friendliness, compassion, joy and equanimity to help us creatively engage in wise, harmless, compassionate action, when in contact through our senses with the resulting feeling tones. How to experince feeling tones without grasping?
Looking at ethical actions in terms of the five precepts, exploring the two aspects of restraint and cultivation; while exploring the impact of various feeling tones on our impulses and attitudes.
This talks explores how one can practice with the four foundations of mindfulness outdoors with the support of the natural world in an embodied and effortless way and how nature illuminates Dharma teachings and wisdom.
The inward turning - parallels across tradition, a natural maturation.
Exploring a vertical and horizontal perspective on awakening, and how these trajectories interact.
Disentangling from Samsara.
Connecting with the vertical - attention, the ground of awareness, and inner peace.
Normalising common challenges encountered.
The value of beginning again, and infusing the body with wise mindfulness.