Heavy Stories | Alex P #26 | 3.8.22

Alex and Dhammarato talk about how to remember to have wholesome thoughts.

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00:00 Every child learns how to complain: seeing the stories

03:47 How heavy is the cup? What have you go on, your mind?

09:07 Dukkha can be in any form, can you throw it out?

12:09 Being concerned is not practicing correctly

14:43 Being discouraged; having no choice

17:43 Dukkha comes back; just one more time; one more time

19:25 Can’t get free of the mind

25:17 Feeling good enough

26:30 Heavy and repetitive; the wheel of samsara

34:00 Identifying with the thoughts; finding stability in the mess

36:31 Sounds like progress; deception and trickiness

39:20 How to be satisfied: if you don’t mind it don’t matter

46:02 There are no results; there are no rules

51:51 Dissatisfaction does a lot; stop judging paradise