Topics Include: 1) Review of the first two teachings on focussing on the breath. 2) The third teaching: feeling the whole body of the breath or feeling the breath in the whole body. 3) Understanding the nature of the breath cycle and how it leads into concentration. 4) The fourth teaching: understanding how the breath calms the bodily formations. Learning how to develop concentration out of a calm and tranquil mind. 5) Understanding the “beautiful breath.” 6) Understanding the transition from the awareness of the object to an awareness of the knowing mind…finding “normalcy of mind” or the “ordinary mind”. Coming to know the “knower” of our experience.
Honolulu, Hawaii
April 6, 2019
59 minutes