Looking directly at the original text in the Satipatthana Sutta on the third foundation of mindfulness, how does the Buddha instruct us and what supports this contemplation.
The problems and distractions in the present are not something you simply want to push your way through or get out of the way. You have to understand how they happen, for that understanding forms the essence of insight.
The Bodhisattva is a being whose life is dedicated to awakening for the sake of all beings. How can we embody this ideal, vow and vision? Can we become bodhisattvas?
Wanting, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness and doubt; how do they manifest and how do we work with them and survive a 10-day meditation retreat in India.
The search for and the practice of love. The transformation which occurs when we turn toward that which is most shameful and difficult with friendship and love.
Faith is not a romanticized protection of a particular experience or person. It is born from the practice of transforming our defended hearts and minds. Faith is one of the great spiritual powers which sustains love and wisdom. Entrusting ourselves to the beautiful qualities of heart, because they only bring goodness.
Greed, aversion and delusion have a way of playing into our personalities through habituated patterns. This talk explores how to have a wise relationship with these tendencies.
Looking at how we built positive or negative selfing and how meditation helps us to develop non-grasping love and from that actively manifest compassion.
