The Inner Causes of Distress and Well-being: Insights from Buddhist Psychology
D2S3 - Awareness of Awareness, Dying Lucidly, and Loving Kindness
Lama Alan · 85 minutes · recorded January 1, 2019
Nothing could persuade you that you are not conscious, and Lama Alan takes that as his starting point. He describes the substrate consciousness, then guides awareness of awareness, released into space on the out-breath and inverted upon itself on the in-breath. What the dying process holds for anyone who stays lucid follows. The session closes with loving kindness, an aspiration rather than an emotion, with the near enemy Buddhaghosa names in the Path of Purification, self-centred attachment.
Anger and aversion Attachment and craving Buddhist psychology Death and dying Relationships and family The nature of mind Loving kindness (metta) Open presence