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Cabbages & Condoms

With Vince Cullen recorded on October 24, 2021.

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During this session we be explore life’s basic necessities and drives, and the critical difference between ‘getting along’ and ‘getting ahead.’ Our meditation practice will be based on the Wise-Heartedness Bhavana to help us cultivate skilful response to distractions in daily life.

A transcript of this session is available here.

Listen to the audio version below, or click here to download the mp3.

Tags: wisdom

Discussion

One thought on “Cabbages & Condoms

  1. Thank you so much for making known the work of the onastery in Thailand.
    I especially appreciate your emphasis on the certainty of our own death and how that informs your intentions to ‘get along’ with life and all its manifestations.
    I also appreciate your clarity, the guided meditation and the ordinariness of your application of mindfulness as ‘remembering to remember’ among other things the old part of the brains’s job of keeping us alive at all cost and our heart’s inclusivity and capacity for ease and contentment.

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