Freedom From Western Passivity | Beau #2 | 6.9.22

Beau and Dhammarato talk about the foundational skills and attitudes that are often missing in Western Buddhism. #buddhism #skills #relaxation

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00:00:00 Skills that need to be developed: remembering, looking, changing

00:08:10 Music and repetition; mercy, grace, and forgiveness

00:12:06 Noting and despair; the 16 stages of enlightenment; stage 16 is “never mind, start again”

00:16:54 Back to skills; playfulness comes with the expectation of success; taking the right effort to gladden the mind

00:22:17 Steve James and Daniel Ingram on Mahasi noting; any thought can be improved; samma sankappa (right attitude or intention)

00:29:48 Developing confidence; the practice of being a lion, of being in charge

00:33:34 Working with the feelings (vedanā); getting in touch with the senses; mindful walking 

00:40:47 We use the mind and body to control the feelings; the fox and the grapes (MN 12); Western passivity

00:51:58 Training in sukha (MN 118); the primary feeling of fear

00:58:51 Comfort: relaxing the body; freedom from fear; safety, security, satisfaction, confidence (piti)

01:04:12 First jhāna and panoramic openness; sustaining the quality of feeling very good; arising and passing away

01:12:27 Everything is a skill to be developed