Joy - Meditation instruction on Joy, participants’ experience with that meditation including joy, passion, excitement, and fun; what is meant by the line “May I experience the world celebrating my efforts”
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Compassion - Meditation instruction for compassion, participants’ experience with that meditation including heartbreak and movement of energy; being present in the suffering of others.
Loving-Kindness - Meditation instruction for loving kindness, participants’ experience with that meditation including opening to what arises; doesn’t wishing oneself to be happy actually separate you from certain experiences.
Equanimity - Meditation instruction on equanimity practice, Q&A, and participants’ experience with equanimity meditation including preference and prejudice towards one’s self; willingness, know-how and capacity in applying the immeasurable.
Bringing attention into actions as the eightfold path’s core practice (from Eightfold Path 2), questions on concentration and attention, how meditation increases attention, and emotional energy.
God’s will, gravity, and evolution; God’s will as explanation of mystery; gravity as absence of justice, etc.; evolution as contrast to cause and effect.
God’s will, gravity, and evolution; God’s will as explanation of mystery; gravity as absence of justice, etc.; evolution as contrast to cause and effect.
Demystifying ideas around karma, questions on whether karma from previous lives impact this life, karma and the death of children, and is there such a thing as burning off bad karma.
Discussion on parents and children, how we as individuals come to know the the four immeasurables in our lives and how it relates to meeting what arises.
Questions on feeling tones that arises from practice, how does one find the edge in practice, how to remedy a lack of intention, working with the intention to be present.
Questions on feeling tones that arises from practice, how does one find the edge in practice, how to remedy a lack of intention, working with the intention to be present.
Bringing attention into the act of speaking, listening to the sound of your own voice when you speak; bringing attention into the experience of action which leads to a relationship with power and makes action more effective.
Group contemplation: “I can’t know what this experience called life is — and I can’t know what follows it. So how do I live this life?” If tears are allowed in the zendo, why not laughter?
Group contemplation: “I can’t know what this experience called life is — and I can’t know what follows it. So how do I live this life?” If tears are allowed in the zendo, why not laughter?
Value of contemplating death and impermanence; accept change and not hold on to what’s time has passed; sit in the whole mess.
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