Exploring Aversion
David Oromith · 91 minutes · recorded April 24, 2024
The session opens with a guided meditation in which we settle body, speech and mind, then refuge and bodhicitta. David turns from attachment to aversion, tracing it from subtle irritation to hatred, and shows how the mind exaggerates an unpleasant contact into a caricature, the three headed green monster. He distinguishes constructive from destructive anger and sets out the four enlightened activities: peaceful, enriching, powerful and wrathful. Questions range across assertiveness, martial arts and the Buddhist view of war.
Anger and aversion Anxiety and fear Attachment and craving Bodhicitta practice Compassion (karuna)