This talk explores 8 specific techniques for working with persistent hindrances: feelings not thoughts, crossed intentions, secondary hindrances, subtle intentions, dispassion, seeing impersonally, labels & language, and how hindrances want to self-destruct. This episode with Doug Kraft was recorded in 2016 at a retreat given in San Juan Bautista, CA.   <a rel="payment" href="http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html">Support the show</a> (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

This talk explores 8 specific techniques for working with persistent hindrances: feelings not thoughts, crossed intentions, secondary hindrances, subtle intentions, dispassion, seeing impersonally, labels & language, and how hindrances want to self-destruct. This episode with Doug Kraft was recorded in 2016 at a retreat given in San Juan Bautista, CA. Support the show (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

This talk explores 8 specific techniques for working with persistent hindrances: feelings not thoughts, crossed intentions, secondary hindrances, subtle intentions, dispassion, seeing impersonally, labels &amp; language, and how hindrances want to self-destruct. This episode with Doug Kraft was recorded in 2016 at a retreat given in San Juan Bautista, CA.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a> (http://www.easingawake.org/donations.html)

Beyond Hindrances

Sifting through the earliest records of the Buddha's talks, we find a simple, elegant, and powerful practice. When he died, his teaching became an “ism”, Buddhism. As it spread into other countries, cultures, and eras his teachings or “map” was copied and re-copied. Shortcuts and alternatives were added and deleted. Compared to the versions of his teachings most widely known, his original meditation emphasized: Tranquility: an open, receptive awareness favored over highly focused, one-pointed concentration; Simplicity: loving kindness, serenity and insight all integrated rather than treated as separate practices; Stages: the practice matures through stages, each of which builds upon and goes beyond earlier stages (or “jhana”); Ease: relaxing as more important than striving. These podcasts are dedicated to this approach to meditation and daily living. I call it “easing awake.”

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Beyond Hindrances

Beyond Hindrances