Current Reading Assignment and Questions

It is with enthusiasm and joy we continue our study of The Heart of The Buddha's Teaching
with everyone. If you have any input on how our process is going feel free to reply to us about that. Otherwise we will proceed in the manner we have been which has been meaningful and gratifying.

FYI in case this might be helpful:
How I, Jayna, study the amount of material we are covering is by reading the next sections
right after we meet and then I ponder and meditate upon the material for a couple weeks.
About midway between our session I sit down with the suggested questions, read again and answer the questions on paper as I go. Then I read a third time just before we meet.
Want to share how you do you do it?

Please read below for our meeting on 3/12:
Here are questions and exercises to consider as we study the rest of Right Mindfulness,
Chapter 11, pg. 68 on:
The Four Establishments of Mindfulness:
1. Identify each one and how we relate to it in our lives.
2. How can we not be intoxicated or terrorized by our feelings? (p. 72)

Right Speech, Chapter 12 (pages 84-98):
Lets be aware of our speech in the next few weeks and ask ourselves:
1) How am I doing with speaking truthfully?
2) Am I tense or short as I speak?
3) Am I exaggerating or embellishing?
4) Have I neglected to say something I might have said that would be helpful to another?

Right Action, Chapter 13 (Pages, 94-98)
Identify a mindfulness training (AKA precept or vow) and how we are actualizing it in our life.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Some new ink comin' my way.....

My first read through chapter Five on suffering, I was very struck in a really bodily way by the Sanskrit phrase in the final paragraph, "drishta dharma sukha viharin" meaning, "dwelling happily in things as they are".   That seems to be a practice that I am to focus on this entire year.   In the moment of reading it this time, I saw it delicately tattoo'd (in Sanskrit) around my right wrist as a reminder...not to reach for or act or move toward changing things.  No reaching, no grasping...just dwell in all things in my life as they are....the easy AND the hard.   The joy AND the suffering.   I'll show it off when I get it in a few months.  Alder
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