Day 2 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
Our walking gets programmed by the drives of the mind. Whatever affects the mind affects the nervous system of the body – the body shows us the effects of our thinking. Walking meditation can return us to the natural quality of the body, so the mind can relax.
Day 2 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
The natural shape of the heart when it’s not dragged out by the sense world has the quality of stable well-being to it. This is the highest happiness. Do what you can do from good intention, restraint and kindness. Keep returning to that because that’s your home base, where your heart is naturally able to express itself, manifest its values and qualities into your life.
Day 2 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
00:53 Please explain the idea of the pāramī; 04:59 Letting go of thinking/expectation; 07:44 Using the sound of silence in practice; 15:58 How Qigong connects to practice; 24:47 Tension in tongue and jaw; 25:03 Remaining “upright and joyful”; 29:23 Family does not agree with my practice; 34:13 Dealing with pain; 38:10 Experience of a deep horrific fear; 43:45 Out of body experiences while meditating; 45:19 Relationship between release of somatic knots and releasing the citta; 48:55 Regrets and resentment; 50:13 Can you speak about the āsava? 53:37 Difference between peace, serenity and tranquility? Pīti and sukha?
Day 3 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
We look for certainty in things that can ever be certain. Constantly pulled out by the world, we leave the only thing that can ever be certain – citta. Rather than attempt to get away from unpleasant feeling, we can review it, soothe and release some of its tangles. We might find it’s possible to be with discomfort, yet free and deeply secure.
Day 3 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
A meditation to develop the ability to play, make mistakes, try again.
Day 3 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
Without pushing forward, without having a goal, experience the motion and flow of walking. Allow citta to pick up the embodied signal in movement – and come home.
Day 3 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
Shape 5 Aspiration Drives the Vehicle (50:55) 17 Jan 2022
We’re looking for the end of suffering, for the possibility of bringing forth what’s good. This is the realm of citta, it wishes to do good. This body is just a tool, to do good deeds with, to work with this person, rather than being it. It’s a vehicle to bring forth the good, the true, the beautiful. Don’t be deceived by appearances, this is a transformation. Bring forth your aspiration vehicle.
Day 3 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
Standing Meditation: The body has an intelligence that can’t be figured out by the mind. It can find the place of least stress and effort, and establish balance. In this way, embodiment moderates the mind.
Day 3 – Well Being is the Shape of the Heart – An Online Retreat
00:30 Questions about meditation; 16:01 What is awareness of awareness? Difference in mano, manas, citta and viññāṇa; 26:00 How to deal with impatience and restlessness; 30:27 How to know if I’m cultivating well; 31:37 Obsessive compulsive disorder; 36:47 Meditation on the 32 parts of the body; 39:54 When thoughts stop and fade away; 41:10 How to deal with death and loss; 43:20 Standing meditation; 45:02 Easier to recognize some feelings but not others; 48:42 Conditionality, saṇkhāra and the aggregates.