Teachings on Wise Understanding
23. The Beautiful
[One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached [15] to what is favorable. One then lives, unattached to that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, accepting what is unfavorable. One then lives, accepting that. [One trains:] ‘Let me live, unattached to both favorable and unfavorable.’ One then lives, unattached to that.
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
20. The Creation of Consciousness
“This is two main aspects of dependent origination… How it works… how consciousness arises: (1) from previous activities and conditioned activities of the mind, (2) and also, how it arises even more throughout the senses, throughout sensory contact. Which both are true. So I guess I was saying all of this to
19. Holding on to Impermanence
Now here, of course,
the Buddha’s teaching on impermanence,
in regards to these five aspects of what we call ‘me’.
is at the very core of the teaching,
it is very important,
and it’s good for us to understand that.
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
17. The Choice
Liberating the mind at the root of experience and choosing happiness, choosing to let go, choosing freedom.