During these disorienting and unstable times, awareness of the Earth Element in the body offers both a refuge and a responsibility to be present for what has arisen and what is arising in our world today.
Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.
How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.
How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.
In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
