Tempel Smith spent a year ordained as a monk in Burma and teaches Buddhist psychology and social activism in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently part of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training Program.
Using mindfulness and insight we can expand the range of experiences we can stay conscious within. Freedom arises as we move beyond our attachments and preferences, and into things just as they are.
There are two great cycles of the Mind on the path of Awakening. Once cycle increases as happiness and freedom through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. The other is through struggling and rejecting the experience.
