Topics Include: 1) The four forms of effort: preventing the arising of unwholesome thoughts that have not yet arisen. 2) Meditation and the prevention of negative emotions and the relationship to the teaching of dependent origination. 3) Elaboration of the concept of karma or the nature of the consequences of our thoughts and actions. 4) Understanding how latent unwholesome emotions can arise given the right conditions. 5) Learning to exercise mindfulness in the face of unwholesome emotions.
June 5, 2021
38 min.