8 Steps to Stop Suffering: Step 8 is…
July 22, 2024 | 12 CommentsAudio only version is here
Meditation practice begins at 13:58
Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project. I hope you are well and enjoying this series of videos on foundational Buddhist teachings. So far, we have covered:
Right View
Right Intention
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Today we move on to the final step, Right Concentration, which has more to do with letting go than trying harder.
I truly hope you have benefited from this exploration of the noble eightfold path. Please let me know what you learned, discovered, or were surprised by. I always love to hear from you!
Much love, Susan
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12 Comments
Thank you Susan very much for this series of podcasts. I usually find your explanation/way of looking at each step has a freshness and always a sincerity. I continue to be amazed at how many times I need to hear things before their truth sinks into my mind…. Such as the first statement about the causes of suffering….iI have now lived for 79 years and I still need this way of looking at the world re stated….. and how beneficial that is.
Thank you.
Olwen
I’m with you! I also need to hear these things countless times. One of the great things about teaching is that I get to think about it all–and not just for my benefit, but for yours. That is what makes the whole thing come alive. Thanks for practicing with me. <3 S
This series came at the perfect time and was very informative and helpful.
Thank you!
So glad to hear it, Allison! <3 S
Thank you
If we have only one prayer may it be thank you.
So grateful for your lovely teaching
Thank you 🙏
In breath thank
Out breath you
My new invention for the day! ☺️
lovely, each and every word. <3 s
Dear Susan, I echo many of the other comments…can never hear these teachings too often, your delivery is so authentic that it offers me hope that I, too, can continue to practice and have new discoveries of these teachings. With much gratitude, Betsy
There is no doubt whatsoever that you are capable of all the discoveries you will ever need! xo S
Dear Susan,
perhaps the philosopher Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology and a master of introspection, can help solve the problem of the “observer of the observer of the observer …”. For it is more a language-problem. Husserl was very concerned with the “inner consciousness of time”, and what is important here is what he calls “retention”. There is always a constantly fresh and, so to speak, bubbling, “primordial” now, and so the “noticer” is always there, always the same, always fresh, always alert, but the moment of noticing, this “Ah!”, sinks very quickly into the past and is now at the top of the previous, ever weaker “Ah”-memories, thus immediately becoming something else (the remembered noticer) – while the living now-noticer is already noticing the next now … So this is not a paradox, according to Husserl. I hope this helps a little and is not too abstract …
Best regards – and thank you!!!
Klaus
many thanks!
“Mission Accomplished” – I have so appreciated this series and the teachings. Such simple brilliance comes through in the words, anecdotes, theories, etc. I value your continual guidance to not take your word for any of it but to find out for ourselves. Thank you.
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