26 Weeks of Awakening
Stagione 1
Week VIII - Nirvana, The End of Suffering
Week IX - Karma
Week X - Equanimity
Week XI - Training In Joy
di Emily Stone
Nirvana is said to be a destination that we aspire to, and maybe akin to Heaven, in the Christian sense. This is not the case. Nirvana is a state-of-mind, and practiced way of living and being that ends all suffering for the practitioner. Let's talk about Nirvana in lay terms and how to begin to experience it in little bits in our daily life.
This week Emily Strunk talks about Karma, and Karmic energy. - and a person's ability to transmute and transcend karnic consequences. Using as a resource, and discussion 7 Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra, Emily discusses how Karmic Energy is a true universal law, and its affect on her life.
Equanimity is one of the Four Limitless Qualities as instructed by the Buddha. Emily Strunk talks about her struggle with developing equanimity and some of the tools she has used on her journey in Buddhism to contemplate and practice equanimity.
Emily talks about her struggle with learning how to connect with the joy inside while still living with fear, anxiety, and daily struggles. Learning how to be present and pay attention to the current moment, knowing that it is all impermenant is the beginning of discovering joy. Join Emily in the beginning of discovering joy.
Emily talks about learning to observe the emotions in the mind, and not becoming the emotions. In Buddhism, observation and mindful attentiveness is a practiced discipline, we embark on the beginning ideas of this this week.