Topics Include: 1) Review of the 25 Beautiful Mindstates. 2) The difference between intelligence and wisdom and the three stages of attaining wisdom. 3) What is the opposite of wisdom…ignorance. 4) The lack of conscience or concern for the moral and ethical implications of our actions. 5) The karmic chain of wrong view, wrong intention, wrong action, and wrong livelihood leading to wrong effort and mindfulness…the path to suffering. 6) Wisdom as the culmination of the Eightfold Noble Path and the Four Noble Truths. 7) The eight path factors: the wisdom factors, the virtue factors, and the concentration factors. 8) Right view as a mind initially lacking understanding and wisdom leading to a mind that can acknowledge suffering in our lives. 9) Right view as the understanding of the Four Noble Truths. 10) The process of recognizing and overcoming wrong view in our lives. 11) What is the source of wrong view? How does it drive our lives and keep us in ignorance?
25 February, 2023
48 min.