Meditation often makes us aware of things we’d rather ignore. Yet if we don’t pay attention to these monsters under the bed they creep up on us when we aren’t aware and take over our lives. This series of talks, recorded during 2007 retreat at Mt. Baldy, explains the monsters’ origins, the challenges they represent, and how to overcome them.
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Working with the second of the four noble truths; attraction, aversion and indifference as impulses, and the reactions they initiate; concerns about making things last or getting rid of them; the formation of emotional needs and why they are impossible to meet; the need to be somebody conditioned by both family and society, practice instructions on finding peace and understanding in the experience of emotional impulses; Q&A