sujato

How does the mind work? Often we don't understand, and we create problems for ourselves and others. But it IS possible to develop wisdom and to be free!

Jhana has become popular, but often dumbed down. So then it helps to have an overview of how aspects of the path fits together.

A longing for freedom is the first of the four bases of spiritual strength—energy, awareness, and understanding are the other three.

This talk is about the process the Buddha went through learning to meditate, starting with an experiences he had as a child, which teachers he met and learned from and how he was conditioned by other schools.

Metta meditation is the practice to develop the mind in such a way that this feeling of metta, this most exalted of human potentials, becomes a reality.

Mindfulness is not really meditation, but can be used as a type of meditation where we simply are aware of what is happening in your body and mind.