We form a spiritual company and a shared Dharma body when we commit to a retreat with precepts and refuges.

Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field.

Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field. Copy of http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/9/talk/12813 with recovered audio

As we grow in wisdom, our fear of death dissolves. The more we purify from within, the more we abide with a clarity of mind that bestows the ultimate seeing, our cosmic ordination, our unburdening from the sufferings of this realm. The veil of delusion collapses in the sacred footprint of the Dhamma. This will be our noble warming.

Our energy gets dragged out and fixated by various outflows (asava). Through widening and softening we can stop constructing the alienated "places" of our dukkha

We can establish mindfulness in the body by tracking sensations, feelings and energies.

Feeling attracts and motivates the mind - often heedlessly. The feeling that accompanies skillful intention steers the mind towards release.

Questions included subjects such as bhava/becoming, reflecting on death, short cuts to enlightenment, right effort ...