From Work to Play | The Sangha UK #34 | 3.7.22

The Sangha discuss the difference between results-oriented and process-driven activities, the impact of visual thoughts, the three phase system, an analogue view of the hindrances, and throwing back events as soon as they’ve happened.

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00:00:00 Insight is a process; events don’t mean anything

00:04:54 Telling ourselves stories; from work to play

00:22:25 Goenka: Never mind start again; can’t make time

00:36:48 Anxiety on the out breath; samma sankappa

00:41:12 Visual thoughts are subtle or quick

00:55:40 Relax and be just on guard for dukkha; enlightenment is the practice

01:00:35 3-phases: waking up & enthusiasm, weakening the three unwholesome roots, not acting on them

01:06:55 Degrees of hindrance; everything is deeply interconnected

01:14:13 Dhammanupassana: looking at phenomena instead of dukkha

01:19:53 We can see things quickly when the mind is stable

01:23:10 Step 16: Throwing back — it’s no longer reality

01:25:18 Dukkha comes from not letting go; high-speed cameras