Meeting pain with mindfulness not helps us to gain a deeper understanding of our relationship with pain but also to gain insight knowledge into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self.
We explore the nature of the judgmental mind, its differentiation from non-reactive discernment, and some sample judgments (using "judgments" here to refer to expressions of the judgmental mind), including judgments related to social conditioning. We outline the two main modes of transformation involved in our practice, a more direct transformation of judgments, on the one hand, and the cultivation of awakened qualities (particularly through heart practices), on the other.
The acronym "SPACE" stands for S = Silence/slowing down. P = Patience A = attitude C = Continuity and E = Expectation free - are practices that are helpful for the success of your meditation retreat.
We often practice from self-view and this can limit our development. Yet, we cannot just drop it. This talk discusses how to practice with self-view to remove it as an obstacle.
