Topics Include: 1) Introduction to the Sixteen Stages: Discovery, the Dark Night of the Soul, Path and Fruition. 2) Transitioning from the stages of discovery to the dark night of the soul: a deepening sense of apprehension about the nature of reality: the rise of fear. 3) The deconstruction of reality: the illusion of continuity. 4) Sayadaw U Jotika: characteristics of passing away. 5) The rise of disenchantment. The loss of a sense of self. 6) Seeing impermanence and impersonality in all conditioned phenomena. The rise of despair and fear. 7) Seeing impermanence itself as suffering.
March 26, 2022
40 min.