Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Intention part1

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring Greg Kramer's time-based categories of over-arching intention, episodic intention and momentary intention

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with an Icaro (medicine song) by Manari Ushigua | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk, Gullu reviews prior week's teachings on Wise Effort, including what supports initiating effort, the middle way between extremes, and the four wise efforts using the acronym PACE: (P)reventing unwholesome states from arising, (A)bandoning unwholesome states that have arisen, (C)ultivating wholesome states, and (E)xtending (sustaining) those wholesome states. He then briefly discusses the Seven Factors of Awakening (Satta Bojjhaṅgā)—mindfulness, investigation of dhammas, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity—emphasizing that energy naturally arises from Mindfulness and investigation. He concludes with a quick overview of the Four Bases of Power (Cattāro Iddhipādā): chanda, viriya, citta, and vīmaṃsā. Particular attention is given to viriya as the engine of awakening and to vīmaṃsā as the spirit of ongoing discernment and refinement in practice. NOTE: Group discussion has been removed.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)