Topics Include: 1) Review of the 25 Beautiful Mindstates. 2) How thoughts, become speech, become actions that harden into habits and character: how the process of conditioning creates who we are. 3) Right action as articulated in the Five Precepts. To refrain from killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, and the taking of substnaces that cloud the mind. 4) the importance of contentment as a preventative to killing, stealing or lying. 5) What is right action: overcoming our inherent conditioning and habit patterns, overcoming automaticity and unconsciousness. 6) The power of mindfulness in showing how unconscious habit patterns can cause suffering… seeing the power of intentions. 7) Understanding intention as a link to our sense of personal agency and responsibility. 8) Learning how to practice right action in a world of greed, hatred, and delusion.
October 8, 2022
42 min.