The Metta Sutta as a complete teaching of the path of practice: The practice of morality, the cultivation of mental clarity, & the development of wisdom.
We believe the ordinary is boring, mundane, uninteresting, but until we embrace it in ourselves we will forever seek to escape the very freedom that ordinariness contains.
How the Five Faculties of conviction, right effort, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, when developed and nourished, can lead to awakening. An invitation to directly experience each faculty and bring them into balance in our lives.
How keeping a resolutely loving heart is the ultimate self protection and has the potential for changing the world. Stories of people who coupled the practice of good will with working for social change -- Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Maha Ghosananda.
The talk explores action and its results. It also looks at how karma and not-self are a mutually necessary way to understand personality and the path of practice leading to the end of karma.
Bringing together the understandings of compassion and wisdom helps us to bring together the understandings of self and selflessness. We then begin to live from a bigger, more limitless heart and mind.
