Can See Clearly Now | Alex P #8 | 1.30.22

Alex and Dhammarato discuss the basic principles of practice by analogy with cooking, whack-a-mole, pulling the plug, the cowherd, and the dog with ticks.

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00:00:00 I can’t get no satisfaction

00:05:42 Frustration, anxiety, fear

00:10:58 Don’t turn wisdom into a set of rules

00:12:34 Dukkha or dukkha-nirodha?

00:22:56 One by one as they occur

00:23:43 Meditation is whack-a-mole

00:31:01 I don’t want to do this

00:36:40 I don’t want to do this wrong

00:39:50 I can’t do this

00:46:10 I can do this

00:48:40 The analogy of the cowherd

00:53:27 Being aware watching a movie

01:01:57 I can master this

01:04:05 Analogy of the dog with ticks

01:06:58 I will keep practicing - I’m in control

01:09:20 How the breathing comes into it