Recognizing and observing the hindrances with interest and curiosity, we are placed before the movie theater of our life and are offered a magnified view of our habits and tendencies.
Compassion is the great circuit that connects our interrelationships and allows us to turn toward the difficulties of life and respond with skillful care. In truth It is a kind of fearlessness. A protector. A strength in itself. But it also has impostors.
The mind is limitless in its power and often misunderstood. Left untrained, it clings, distorts, and generates suffering. When met with awareness, it becomes a gateway to clarity, compassion, and liberation.
Further into the Brahma Viharas, talk about equanimity or Upekha, the two types of equanimity , how to cultivate the second one, given that the first one can only be achieved by cultivating all the Paramis. Then a short guided meditation based on the Tibetan Tonglem of bringing other's pain/suffering into our hearts to tranform them into light.
