“Wherever You Go, There You Are” – As the title of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book tells us, our happiness doesn’t come from the things that we own, or where we live, or what we have in this life - it comes from the qualities of mind and especially of heart that we’ve cultivated.

In the teachings, the Buddha urged us to practice 10 of these qualities that he considered “priorities of supreme importance” on our path towards finding freedom from stress and suffering.

In this talk, Shell offers an overview of these ten - the “paramis” or “perfections” - in anticipation of a series of 10 talks on each of them.