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.
Description: We first explore how concentration practice is both helpful and important for insight practice, and how the two practices are related. We then look at the nature of insight practice, and in particular examine three ways of liberating seeing in insight practice, namely practices in which we cultivate seeing anicca (impermanence), dukkha (reactivity or unreliability or suffering), and anatta (not-self).
An introduction to mindfulness of the body in terms of the four qualities of earth, water, fire, and air or wind, as a way of gaining insight into the body's impermanence and interconnectedness
Focusing on aging, the stages of life, and dying is a major “dharma door” or gateway. We examine a number of different perspectives to orient us as we go in that door, including how such a focus helps us to clarify the centrality and urgency of spiritual practice, working through social conditioning regarding aging and dying, using the lenses of teachings and practices investigating impermanence and the nature of the self, and awakening.
