How insight and the heart qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity balance each other out to support the development of deep freedom
A talk about the directionality of our thinking, based on the wisdom of the two sorts of thinking sutta (MN19). With less identification, and a sense of supporting samadhi, we can navigate the world of the heart-mind.
Beginning with compassion for someone we're close to who's experiencing some kind of pain, then extending compassion to ourselves, our co-meditators and all living beings
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing to steady the awareness, then opening to physical sensations throughout the body, then opening to the experience of hearing, staying present to sounds as they arise and pass away
