NO CD: This talk discusses how forgiveness emerges out of understanding of our own and others suffering and how the suffering in this world is balanced by the third Brahma Vihara of sympathetic joy.
What is insight—how does it arise? An exploration of the spontaneous nature of insight and its inability to be forced. Aspects of our path and practice that support the arising of insight.
Wise Effort is a key issue in Dharma practice. Am I doing enough or too much. This talk explores how to develop balance with regard to effort as well as the classical Four Right Efforts pertaining to wholesome and unwholesome states.
Contact brings impressions into the heart, which gets retrained at an involuntary level and affect our immediate response to life in terms of fear, mistrust, desire. There are ways of clearing this—the result is joy.
An aspect of our Kammic patterning is the mode of consciousness that is selected to process experience—normally this is visual or conceptual. If we use the tactile consciousness it has an emotive resonance and truer response.
Grasping affects the way we conceive experience: "Head Language," "Body Language." Body language is freer from reactions, assumptions, interpretations.
