Annie Nugent has practiced since 1979 and was an IMS Resident Teacher, 1999-2003. Her teaching style aims to reveal how all aspects of our lives can help us come to a clear and direct understanding of the Truth.
Mindfulness: This talk looks at the lighter, playful side of mindfulness and the importance of the quality of clear knowing or comprehending that is always associated with mindfulness.
When we hear the word ”effort” on coming to practice, our worldly conditioning can kick in – and we interpret and associate it with striving, achieving, driving ourselves with ambition to attain, because this is the way one makes effort in the world…but the practice is not about getting anything…it is about letting go.
Of all of the vastness of the Buddha's understanding, he summed up the essence of his discovery with just these 4 truths - which are not meant to be an intellectual understanding, rather we need to see them manifest directly....in all areas of our lives. In this way our lives are onward leading towards freedom.
Resolve played a major role in the Buddha's enlightenment. Consequently we can see the importance of this quality in our own practice. This talk details it's meaning and how to develop and incorporate it into our practice - propelling us ever onward towards liberation
Impermanence is happening all the time...in every moment – and to everything... we don't recognize this truth because our awareness is weak and our delusion is strong.
As we turn our attention to this truth in all it's nuances, the natural outcome is letting go.
Gratitude comes when we appreciate life as a gift from which we can learn, discover
and come to understand the Truth of existence. Seeing the scope of the
Buddhadharma allows for gratitude to come to the fore... because we see that the teachings work...oh joy!
