Topics Include: 1) Review of the Sixteen Stages: transitioning from the dark night of the soul to re-observation and reconciliation and peace. 2) The notion of the spiritual process as a journey of awakening: the metaphor of a river merging with the sea. 3) Entering the Stage of Re-observation from the stages of fear and misery. 4) Reviewing the illusion of compactness and continuity. 5) Reaching the point of Re-observation where we see that impermanence itself is the source of our suffering. 6) Coming to Stage 11 which is equanimity about formations. 7) Understanding the deepening jhanic states that are occurring as we move through the stages of insight.
April 16, 2022
48 min.