Fall 2011 Shamatha Retreat

42 Loving kindness, part 1

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Synopsis

We have begun to see the promise and the obstacles - our minds bare and naked. We have seen some glimmerings of our potential. In the vajrayana path we can take the fruit as the path. Go where you have never been before and invite this into the present actuality through imagination. We are at an important moment in history - a lot changing and going and being destroyed. A lot of possibility will be dharma to have a little bit of this and a little bit of that. But few teachers can show a full path to liberation - not many out there who know the real path. There is no way to peace, peace is the way. There is no way to freedom, freedom is the way. We come back to the practice of loving kindness focused on one self, again posing these four questions: 1) What would make you truly happy, and provide you with a sense of fulfillment, the realization of your innermost heart's desire? 2) In order to find the fulfillment that you seek, what would you love to receive from the world around you; hedonically, which of co