Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: guided dyad (pairs) practice, exploring physical sensations in the body (three minutes each), then an example of a time when you became aware of the body's impermanent, unreliable and not-self nature
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: Dukkha as the second of the three universal characteristics; its relationship to the five "clinging-aggregates" and ways that we commonly cling to or identify with the body
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course
Week 2: A 15 minute guided meditation focus on mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
Maranasati leads to being real and being grateful for both life and death. As we mature and deal directly with the truth of death we value life and the preciousness of existence. This reality brings gratefulness of all that is given–– our bodies, hearts, minds, the earth, sky, universe and each moment.
The talk discusses the role of perception in creating and shaping our experience and the problems that arise due to our lack of awareness regarding the fabricated nature of awareness and the distortions of perception.
It presents a way of practice that involves playing and experimenting with different skilful ways of looking. 1. Seeing in terms of the three characteristics, 2. Seeing through the lenses of goodwill and friendliness, 3. Imaginal, creative and symbolic ways of looking.
