Topics Include: 1) Sadness and grief as a form of suffering. 2) The solitude of each person’s karmic journey, our solitary journey of life. 3) Addressing unwholesome emotions that have arisen, the teaching of Bhikkhu Bodhi. 4) The five principal hindrances: desire, ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt. 5) Methods of addressing desire: meditating on impermanence. 6) Working with ill-will and anger: invoking loving kindness and compassion. 7) Sloth and torpor: methods of energizing the mind and body. 8) Restlessness and worry: methods of calming the mind. 9) Doubt: using the mind to investigate the blockages and hindrances in meditation and in our lives.
June 19, 2021
61 min.