Fear and the antidotes to fear.
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What's the difference between non-attachment and detachment, avoidance, dissociation, dismissiveness or complacency?
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You can't really trust the untrained mind but ultimately, you're going to have to train your mind so much that it becomes trustworthy.
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Anatta: Where is this I? What part of me is clingy, needy, afraid, angry, judgmental, inflated, deflated? Where is this self?
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The spiritual revolutionary defies both the internal and external forces of oppression.
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Death meditation. Sometimes when you have a meditation like this it's worth actually sitting down and reflecting a little bit. Maybe you hadn't thought of these things in a long time but then when you had 30 minutes to live, it all came rushing back. And maybe you think, “I do want to follow through rather than going back to sleep, rather than going back into denial or avoidance.”
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It's probably much more wise for us to take full personal responsibility for being annoyed by humans. But how often do we think that everyone else is the problem? Think, “if the annoying people just weren't so annoying, I'd be happy.”
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In Buddhism, we use the work ‘citta’ which translates as the heart mind; the understanding that our emotions are mind states.
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Guided Meditation and Q&A with Noah Levine.
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Often our core meditation practice here tends to be a mindfulness based present time awareness, development of wisdom is 80 or 90% of the meditation instructions that I give. But I do believe – and practice in my own life – a lot of loving kindness and forgiveness and compassion (we did forgiveness a couple weeks ago). We call these the heart practices. I believe these are perhaps equally as important.
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In response to the California wildfires, Noah reflects on Buddha’s advice to the group of fire worshippers who became some of the earliest members of the sangha.
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Could you imagine getting to a place, in your meditation practice, where you could communicate with people and be free from a comparing mind, and just be present with someone, just as they are rather than the whole sizing up dance of superior, inferior or even equal.
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The fact that we have a map of how to traverse, navigate our way through this human experience.
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In order to wake up and see reality clearly, we must first learn to be kind, patient, accepting and forgiving. Without kindness our meditations, actions and thoughts become ruled by the habitual reactive patterns that cause suffering.
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I have come to believe that the states of generosity, compassion, lovingkindness, appreciation, forgiveness, and equanimity (balance) are natural by-products of the meditative path.
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Impermanence & Change: The Unreliable Nature of Things
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What’s it mean to be free? The buddha said, “I only teach the truth of suffering and how to end suffering”. How do we alleviate suffering…..And then what? What would life be like?
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The Middle Path. Finding the balance between the internal and external aspects of the Buddhist practice. When is being of service to others an act of avoidance?
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Instead of clinging to these things as who we are, mindfulness loosens our identity. It is a process of unraveling our identity, rather than this tight rope of self, “I Am”, mindfulness starts to say, “OK, there’s a body, there’s memories, pleasant, unpleasant memories, It’s a loosening of the rope of self.
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