Notes on the 12 links

12 links

Salute the shine, time dedicated to spiritual progress, not worldly interests

Homage to the three jewels with body speach and mind

Mindfulness of the body, foundation of practice and development of awareness

Report back, expressing our experience to become more aware of it

Mindfulness of feelings, shorter,

report back, three parts of the body, pleasant or painful, one word to describe each

3 qualities; interest/ curiosity, closeness/warmth, freedom/spontanaeity

to overcome distraction, abstraction and control

12 links

Unite / integrate knowledge and personal experience

To become whole, unify our will and energy

See how conditioned co-production works in our lives

Looking at feeling, craving , attachment in our lives, one concrete example

Maybe easier to start at the end

What attachment are we considering?

What is the craving behind it, powering it?

What is the feeling we crave for?

Importance of expressing personal experience, listening to others, and learning from them

Full awareness > transformation, how to transform myself > full awareness

Themes

Material things and satisfaction

Views, which ones are we attached to

Ethics and practices

Ourselves, душа

Refuges and precepts to close, now we have the teaching dedication to practice it

to transform ourselves and our lives on all levels and in all dimensions