Mindfulness of difficult emotions can lead to a pleasant progress to peace, happiness, and awakening.

With so much focus on suffering and the end of suffering, it's sometimes easy to forget this is a path of happiness. The Buddha was called the happy one. This talk presents the teachings held in that perspective.

End of the second week set of instructions - a general invitation to mindfulness.

The First Noble Truth of suffering is to be fully understood. The Second Noble Truth says that the origin of suffering is craving, which is to be abandoned.

Radiating Metta toward your friend can help to build a stronger connection between oneself and others.

The process of perception feeding proliferation of thought can create the magic show of personality show.

Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each sense contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.

When the five spiritual faculties are balanced. one can progress faster on the path to peace, happiness and final liberation.