Staying Joyful, Traveling Light | Scott #5 | 3.7.22

Scott and Dhammarato discuss how to deal with difficult people, how to face death with equanimity, setting down the burden of unwholesome thoughts, and using the eightfold path to develop the seven factors of enlightenment.

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00:00 Wake up, investigate, change the mind, celebrate success; then 1st jhana; maintain 1st jhana

08:41 Accepting that we don’t know

12:32 Facing death; the Dark Night of the Soul

18:08 Inspecting thoughts that get heavy; putting down your burden

28:53 Staying joyful

31:14 Intentionally start having wholesome thoughts; STOP

39:30 Wholesome thoughts are not fake; don’t keep score

43:25 Better without the idealisations

45:11 Eightfold path is the method the seven factors are the skills; knowledge & vision and deliverance

53:11 Everything gets heavy, everything gets old; two types of upekkhā