Calm in daily life
Victoria Austin at Insight Meditation Center, August 19, 2001 • Download from Insight Meditation Center's Audio Dharma page (donate)
• practicing with shamata outside of a monastic setting • the conditions for shamata, starting with nourishment • "intentions are like puppies, they need to be frequently fed and cared for" • "even if you can only fulfill your intention for five minutes, that nourishes the intention" • "for every year of practice, I had gained three minutes of equanimity with my mother" • practicing with shamata in meetings
2 comments:
Your summaries of these talks, like the little previews in the chapter headings of Victorian novels, are lovely. The gist of the gist.
Just thought of this cheesy koan joke:
Does a visit to a page without a site-visit-meter actually happen?
Keep posting :-)
Very funny . . . there's some sort of extension to the joke about comments . . . ok, also very cheesy: Does a blog without comments have a Buddha nature? (so much for ever being perceived as a serious student now!)
I like the Victorian chapter heading image a lot ("in which we discover that the hero has nodded off during zazen").
Of course, I just totally violated that goal by posting a virtual transcript of Paul Haller's talk. It's tricky though, such a great talk, it's hard to grab just one thread without getting the whole sweater . . .
Thanks for your comment . . . cheers --
--Chris.
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