ISmile281 – Vid: The Open Heart
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English - December 22, 2010 17:00 - 48 minutes - 341 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBuddhism Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this Dharma talk, Michael McAlister breaks form a bit. Instead of offering up pointers showing us a path to freedom, he describes how to best keep ourselves from ever developing an open heart.
He also discusses how ego is not the root of all evil; how focussed attention on the activity of mind offers a compassionate response to all things; and how employing a witnessing awareness to all experience reveals a deep trust in the Universe. He also suggest that there are qualities that will block both an open heart as well as an open mind, among them: fear, clinging, resentment, resistance, unresolved longing as well as grief, pain and certitude, among others.
In this Dharma talk, Michael McAlister breaks form a bit. Instead of offering up pointers showing us a path to freedom, he describes how to best keep ourselves from ever developing an open heart.
He also discusses how ego is not the root of all evil; how focussed attention on the activity of mind offers a compassionate response to all things; and how employing a witnessing awareness to all experience reveals a deep trust in the Universe. He also suggest that there are qualities that will block both an open heart as well as an open mind, among them: fear, clinging, resentment, resistance, unresolved longing as well as grief, pain and certitude, among others.