Wisdom
Right Attitude (1)
• Right attitude for meditation
• What is the right attitude for meditation
• Right attitude for meditation
• No good, no bad; only right attitude
• Right attitude is right view or wisdom
• Have right attitude and be aware
• Importance of right attitude
• Right attitude towards the thinking mind
• Don’t try to have right attitude; recognize wrong attitude
• To meditate without defilements, notice them when present
• Checking feelings and thoughts
• Spiritual urgency – practice like there is no tomorrow
Wisdom
Right attitude (2)
• Watching with right attitude
• Right attitude towards decay and death
• Reasonable thinking through awareness and wisdom
• Being sick is a good time for learning
Wisdom
Right Understanding/
Right View (1)
• Right view should be foremost
• Checking if there’s right view
• Right idea of arising and passing away
• Why mind feels strange when right view surfaces
• Right view is not personalizing experience
• Knowing and understanding what is happening
• Understanding difference between vipassana and samatha
• Understanding anatta by the mind and physical processes
• Seeing vs understanding the three characteristics
• Questioning to deepen understanding
• Understanding the principle of how thoughts operate
• Understanding cause and effect
• Right view is very important
• How to know if the practice is right
• Changing the mind or changing the object?
• Understanding thoughts and thinking
• Right view on dana and metta
• The more the understanding, the less the suffering
Wisdom
Right Understanding/
Right View (2)
• When mind is purified, understanding happens
• Understanding the how and why of practice
• Impermanence is an understanding
• Wisdom has patience, while greed has none
• Questioning to ignite learning
• Intellectual understanding is different from realization
• Realizing that seeing and thinking are different
• Understand happiness rather than just indulging
• With understanding, there is a choice not to suffer
• Understanding the value of the practice