Letting go of: All the wishing for more, for less, for anything else, the whining and defining, the needing and the resisting. Just this simple quiet opening. Aaahh!
Why did the Buddha describe mindfulness as the direct path to overcome sorrow and lamentation, end suffering, discontent and realize the highest happiness?
This talk reminds us what mindfulness practice is, why it is so profound and describes attitudes that optimally support mindfulness practice.
After a brief overview of the Foundations, we explore both experientially and through teachings four ways of practicing with the aggregates:
1.) Recognizing when they are present
2.) Tracking their arising and passing away
3.) Noting when a thick sense of self is present and opening to experience without such a sense of self
4.) Noting when suffering or dukkha appears and responding skillfully
