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Reviewing the Joy Awakening Factor
Allie Vaknin provides a review of the Joy Awakening Factor during this talk, clarifying the various ways that joy can arise as an internally generated phenomena, not dependent upon external circumstances.
Reviewing Tranquility and Concentration
This talk provides a review of two of seven Awakening Factors, Tranquility and Concentration, which are so integrated in their functioning that their manifestation is called samatha (syah-mah-tah) in Pali. Peter Carlson provides a review of each of the two, including...
Guided Tranquility And Concentration Contemplation
This guided meditation combines the functions of Tranquility and Concentration, two of the seven Awakening Factors. This contemplation is intended to supplement the talk " Tranquility and Insight", presented the same evening and posted in the archives.
Reviewing The Investigation of Mental Phenomena
During this talk, Peter Carlson reviews Dhamma Vicaya Bojjhanga, the Investigation of Mental Phenomena Awakening Factor. This quality of investigative curiosity, in coordination with the Mindfulness and Energy Awakening Factors, provides a primary support for the...
Reviewing The Energy Awakening Factor
During this talk, April Koester reviews the Viriya Bojjhanga, the Energy Awakening Factor, which manifests as the persistent application of Right Effort, enhancing the benevolent effects of the other six Awakening Factors.
Guided Investigation Of Mental Phenomena Contemplation
This guided meditation fosters increasing awareness of how to investigate what the mind creates in an ongoing way while practicing mindfulness of breathing meditation. It is intended to supplement the Dharma talk that occurs after this meeting titled "The...
Reviewing The Mindfulness Awakening Factor
During this talk, April Koester reviews the Awakening Factor of Mindfulness, the key element of the Seven Awakening Factors; this quality of conscious attention monitors the other 6 factors, supporting the effective coordination of them all in the process of Awakening.
Reviewing The Six Sense Bases
This post reviews the Six Sense Bases: the eyes and seeing, the ears and hearing, the nose and smelling, the tongue and tasting, the sensations elsewhere in the body, along with the mind and consciousness. During the talk, Peter Carlson focuses on the fetters, those...
Guided Five Aggregates Contemplation
This guided meditation provides a review of the characteristics of the Five Aggregates of Clinging, which is described in the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness. It is intended to supplement the Dharma talk of the same evening that reviews this topic.
Guided Mindfulness of Feelings Contemplation
This guided meditation provides training in monitoring how feelings affect the mind and the ways mindfulness of feelings can regulate impulsive reactivity.
