With breathing we are coming into different aspect of body, the energy body. Feel the internal body with reference to breathing. Use the thinking mind to keep pointing – where am I? Heart picks up feelings of space, gladness ease. Body, heart mind work together to clear kammic disturbances in the energy field. Walking instructions at the end.

The value of reflecting on thought and thinking other than merely thinking about thinking.

Recollection connects the thinking mind and heart and generates felt values for inspiration, clarity, and blessing.

"Citta" - The center of awareness extends through thinking, emotion, and somatic senses. Dhamma practice covers all these.

Delusion seduces us into thinking we are dependent on people, material objects or pleasant experiences for our happiness. Renunciation and the practice of the precepts bring us to the peace we are.

Cultivating mindfulness of the body by thinking of it as composed of breath sensations.

The four root causes of how thinking carries us away.

Carry the statement, "Seek first to understand before being understood," throughout this week. How does this intention create a listening attitude? Experience the effect of listening on your heart, how it opens you to caring. How does your behavior change when you allow actions to flow from listening instead of making assumptions prior to the action? Watch how the phrase interrupts reactive and impulsive thinking. Do you see the potential for changing many of your relationships through this intention?