As dharma students, we learn to move beyond an an intellectual, in-the-head understanding of our experience of life, toward understanding that develops in the body and, ultimately, in the heart.  This wisdom, cultivated through awareness, is the wisdom that will free us from our habitual patterns of suffering and leads us to true happiness in this life.  The dharma talk by Peter Doobinin was given at a daylong retreat in New York City in March 2023.