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Human Life is Precious

Everything is Impermanent

Karma and Inevitable Results

Suffering and Boundless Nature

Suffering

June 4, 2020

Guided Meditation

TFY 6.4.20 Non-focusing & As it is

00:00 / 33:13

Session (Audio)

TFY 6.4.20 Teaching & Discussion

00:00 / 41:19

Session (Video)

FORMAL & INFORMAL PRACTICE

Inquiry and reflections both on and off the cushion.

1. Does anything ever happen outside your awareness?

Can anything happen outside your awareness?

Then, what is outer and inner?

2. Practice being non-focused and non-distracted.

What is that experience like?

3. Sahara's Pith Instruction:

"The true nature of all things is devoid of anything to be experienced."

June 11, 2020

Guided Meditation

TFY 6.11.20 Awareness Meditation with In

00:00 / 40:46

Awareness with Inquiry

Session (Audio)

TFY 6.11.20 Teaching & Discussion

00:00 / 1:09:05

Session (Video)

INFORMAL PRACTICE

During the day...

Observe the ways you try to avoid suffering and allow yourself to be drawn towards it with curiosity.

Notice what causes you to suffer and how you relate to your suffering.

Can you befriend your suffering?

Can suffering lead you to compassion?

June 18, 2020

Session (Audio)

TFY 6.18.20A Teaching & Discussion

00:00 / 34:38

Guided Meditation

TFY 6.18.20 Meditation on Suffering

00:00 / 26:20

Session (Video)

Session (Audio)

TFY 6.18.20B Teaching & Discussion

00:00 / 1:18:57

Session (Video)

INFORMAL PRACTICE

During the day...

Explore how you can take the practice off the cushion in moments of your daily life in any/all of the following:

Are you in your body?

What are you feeling?

What are you trying not to feel?

Can you simply stay with the feelings without abandoning, resisting, suppressing, fixing or imposing on them?

Can you notice and bear witness to the cycle of suffering: thinking-feeling-grasping-believing-suffering?

Can you remember and rest in the Openness,the entirety of it all - in the interpenetration of suffering and Openness?

June 25, 2020

Session (Audio)

TFY 6.25.20 Short Teaching

00:00 / 06:27

Session (Video)

Dharma Talk, Meditation & Discussion with Lama Rod Owens

May 12 , 2020 :: Turning Our Minds Toward the Path of Liberation

Guided Meditation

TFY 6.25.20 4 Mind Turnings

00:00 / 26:21

ON & OFF THE CUSHION

As the Program closes...

How will you take the 4 Thoughts that Turn the Mind (4 Mind Turnings or Changings) and bring them into your practice?

How will you bring them into your life - home, work, health, relationships, world events, communication?