Meditation and Dharma practice can be understood as a natural process of
developing five qualities starting with Faith/Trust and culminating in
Wisdom. This talk describes how that process unfolds.
Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that block our immediate sensory experience, the tension in the body that reduces aliveness and the armoring around the heart that dulls our sensitivity and tenderness toward life itself.
How we tolerate uncertainty - during current times and throughout our lives - has a powerful effect on our capacity for presence, aliveness and love.
This talk explores the conditioned ways of reacting to insecurity that contract us, and pathways of letting go of resistance, opening to Beginner's mind and discovering a timeless, wise and loving presence in the midst of inevitable change.
Jagara s’est inspiré des paroles de la chanson Tu trouveras la paix, par Renée Claude, pour aborder le thème de l’amour bienveillant (metta). Il a aussi discuté de l’importance de la qualité de l’esprit dans toutes les actions et situations.
The process of purifying gold can help us understand the nature of mind. Clearing out the turbulences and impurities makes way for what is naturally pure and radiant to come forth. Freed from the hindrances, the mind is pliable, luminous, properly fit for work.
*Sutta references: AN5:193; AN3:101-102; SN:46:53; AN6:85
Awakening the heart from limitation also opens us to a sense of boundlessness. What is it to see the Dharma as an exploration of release through lessening our built up and heavily fabricated experiences? How would it be to see this path as a way to fabricate less and less dukkha–distress and self-centredness, and to liberate all appearances?
