Teachings on Wise Awareness
37. Gratitude is Awareness
Gratitude is, in fact, very close to awareness. It is one of these states of the heart or the mind, these very wholesome states, where we are acknowledging what has been done to help us, and what we have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ySOKWSNUNg It can be a very powerful tool to
24. The Experience of Nibbāna
And Samādhi, becomes so sharp,
collectedness of mind becomes so sharp,
steadiness so sharp and so present,
awareness starts to dissolve,
it breaks down here.
22. Awareness in Practice
How is the liberation of the heart by Love developed? Where does it lead to?What is its limit?What is its fruit?What is its culmination? Here monks, (1) One develops the awakening support of awareness, filled with Love… -SN V 46.54 Filled with Love So I like to take
18. Virāga as Calming Down
This calming down, Virāga, is very often translated as ‘dis-passion’. And this is a problem one. Because this tends to be interpreted in a way that one needs to be dispassionate… (Smiling) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehsQ4wMXLkg&list=PLbFvYEw0YpWCDQ1V18MgR8T_OGEZ61HFQ&index=12 Which is not completely wrong, but not completely right, in the western context and the
16. Aniccasañña – Unabiding Mind
It would be much more valuable to cultivate, for the time of a finger snap , An unabiding mind. And this is Aniccasaññā, impermanence.
4. Transience and Letting go
“Or perhaps, one might notice, forms or shapes, or lights and colours, forms, Rūpa. The first fabric of the ego. One of the five constituents that we call ‘ourselves’: Form or shape Sensations Perceptions or concepts Mental fabrications (the active part of the mind: Saṅkhāra) or simply Awareness. Perhaps mind