Lifetimes of Learning

Merit for Wellbeing and Happiness

Length (41 mins) Level: All

How we live now produces our future, Not only produces the external environment we experience but it produces our internal mental world. We are a product of ourself.

If we understand merit we can contribute beneficially to the shift in our mental state everyday of our life. As long as we are contributing the right thoughts, the right words and the right actions which are positive and wholesome the shift will be positive, the shift will be beneficial for you, and it will be beneficial for the people you know because you are contributing positives to their world.

This is the nature of the journey that we are on in life, and its based on kamma. The good kamma we perform is called merit. How we live moment to moment is therefore very powerful.

How Karma Works

Length (25 mins) Level: All

This talk introduces a Buddhist Teaching on the subject of kamma. What is the relevance of kamma to our life here and now? What is kamma and how does it work? How is kamma related to my wellbeing and happiness? These are some of the questions that are discussed in depth.

Kamma is not just about our external world, it is just as significantly about our internal world. Even the way we think, our perceptions and dispositions are direct reflections of how we thought and acted in the past. Understanding how kamma works gives us great power to fashion our future and who we will become.

Develop Your Good Heart

Length (32 mins) Level: All

To develop our good heart may sound very good, but what does it mean? How do you develop your good heart and how does that help in your journey through your life? 

This discussion of good heart starts with the basic underlying ground of our mind, which is our awareness. From cultivating and developing our awareness in the right way comes brightness, clarity and eventually wisdom, and brings with it many good qualities of mind, which together we could call our good heart.

Developing our good heart can offer us more meaning and understanding in our life, enabling us to be happier and helping us to look after our true wellbeing.

How to Give Up Doubt

This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of doubt and how to let it go. 

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states.

This podcast introduces the hindrance of doubt so we can understand how it functions as negative mental states we experience and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to reduce its intensity, let it go and eventually abandoning doubt completely.

Length: 74min

Level: Beginner

How to Give Up Sense Desire

This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of sense desire and how to let it go. 

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states.

This podcast introduces the hindrance of sense desire so we can understand how it functions as a negative mental condition and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to reduce sense desire, let it go, and eventually abandon it completely.

Length: 62min

Level: Beginner

How To Give Up Ill Will - Part Two

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. This podcast introduces the hindrance of ill will, so we can understand how they function as negative mental states and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to let them go, reduce their intensity and eventually abandoning them completely.

How To Give Up Ill Will - Part One

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. This talk introduces the hindrance of ill will, so we can understand how they function as negative mental states and what skills and methods we can learn and practice to let them go, reduce their intensity and eventually abandoning them completely.

Introduction To The Five Hinderances

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states.

How to Give Up Worrying

This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of anxiousness and worry and how to let it go. 

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. When we understand how they function as negative mental states and learn the skills and methods to let them go, we can reduce their intensity and eventually abandon them completely and be free from their negative effects.

Length: 58min

Level: Beginner

How to Give Up Laziness

This talk is part of a series on 'How to overcome five hindrances' and it focuses on the hindrance of sloth and torpor, or laziness, dullness and heaviness, and how to let them go. 

The five hindrances are different types of dullness, distraction and disturbance that cover and suppress our mind preventing us experiencing clear, beneficial, and peaceful mental states. When we understand how they function as negative mental states and learn the skills and methods to let them go, we can reduce their intensity and eventually abandon them completely and be free from their negative effects.

 

Length: 1hr7mins 

Level: Beginner