Cultivating a kindly accepting relationship with the challenging energies of life - is essential to happiness and freedom. In this talk we explore those energies and offer practical methods of working with them.
Part 1 of the journey of suffering to the end of suffering. Building the foundation of calming(shamatha) and beginning to see into life(vipassana), daily life and formal practice as one wise attitude.
A discussion of the mental conditions necessary to support the observation of conditioned phenomena throughout our experience and the role of the the "three prolongations" of existence in that process.
