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Starting with a recap Roughly speaking we can divide the causes of overthinking into two: external internal Changing externals such as environment, lifestyle, may offer some help but really we need to change the mind If you wish it may be helpful to explain ...

In this class we are thinking of counter acting against our normal mental habits. So we begin to develop ideas in our mind such as I am not the centre of the world My wishes do not and cannot realistically alway be fulfilled

in this class we may consider two things that can help dealing with overthinking karma emptiness these two topics help with overthinking because overthinking is scrade from the uncertainty of life and overthinking creates in ourmind an appearance of the world...

For the first class we explain the meaning of delusions, and how delusions are our real enemy. How we need to move away from seeing other people as our enemies. This of course is very difficult to do and we need to have very strong motivation to do so. Our mot...

The Armor of Love: Protecting the Good Heart The Enemy: Attachment and Jealousy. The Warrior’s Training: Developing the Three Types of Love (Affectionate, Cherishing, and Wishing Love) (p. 135). The Weapon: Contentment and Rejoicing in others' good fortune (...

The enemies we wage war in this teaching are our anger and resentment Explaining once again what are delusions in general Explanation of anger can be found in many books Explanation of resentment is found in How to Understand the Mind A warrier trains to deal ...

The Sword of Wisdom: Striking the Root The Enemy: The Ignorance of Self-Grasping (the root of all other enemies). The Warrior’s Training: Training in Ultimate Bodhichitta (p. 201). The Weapon: The Wisdom of Emptiness and Conventional Bodhichitta. Goal: To s...

Introduction Before we speak about the habits of happy people we need to think about happiness For someone like me and maybe for many of you who are here - this term 'happiness' is regularly used. For someone who is for the first time here the idea of happines...

Recap We looked into what is happiness seeking happiness by pleasing the senses seeking happiness by finding meaning to life the first type is totally deceptive - we are acquiting happiness with the pleasant feeling that we get when get pleasant sensory expe...

Recapping previous classes - especially about the different kind of happinesses sensory gratification meaning inner peace - the buddhist view The difference between them. Last week we into two things Real cause of Happiness vs deceptive cause the more you ...

Tonight we begin our study of Karma. Karma is a word in Sanskrit - the acceptable meaning is action. In our Buddhist tradition it is used in with the meaning of cause and effect. So in our Buddhist tradition Karma the topic dealing with causality or in other w...

Last week we started looking at the meaning of Karma We started by Definition of Karma - Actions and effects The underlying principles of karma mind does not end with the body Actions leave potential in the mind - carried within our mind until conditions meet...

We redifined the meaning of happiness: Away from the normal persuit after sensory pleasure, excitments, fame, power and even away from normal ordinary relationships. We established happiness to be a peaceful mind because the increase of peaceful mind never tur...

Introduction Class These introduction notes are probably the most important ones - how you then teach the reminder of the meditations is up to you. Things to mention This course follows the 3 audio tracks - and is based on the booklet accompanying them The co...

Body of Light Meditation #1 As the booklet states - This meditation lays the foundation ... Think how come this meditation "lays the foundation for meditating on the mind" Hint - remeber most people have a problem with the idea of clarity - that the mind has...

Clarity Meditation #2 This meditation is an introduction to the clarity of the mind - which is its nature. And it builds from the previous meditation about the spaciousness coming from body of light. Here the emphasise is on clarity Refer to all the previous p...

The Root Mind Meditation #3 Remember all the previous points - motivation, ways of conducting our self during the meditation and anything else you shared with your students This now brings it all together with a gentle focus at the centre of the heart. Learnin...

What did we cover What is happiness Dealing with uncertainty - patience acceptance, karma Grasping - the mental activity that hold onto things and identity as fixed Love - the three types of love and the problem of grasping at a self and the development of se...