A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness (2010-11)
Teachings on A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness by Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen given at Sravasti Abbey from August 2010 – March 2011.
A Presentation of the Establishment of Mindfulness
Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen Gyalwa Chokyi Gyaltsen describes the necessary factors to analyze the mind and describes the meditation to establish mindfulness.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Noble eightfold path and the four noble truths
How the concept of renunciation is misunderstood.
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Preparatory practices for establishing mindfulness
The importance of mindfulness in maintaining ethical conduct, and in developing concentration and wisdom.
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Six types of breathing meditation
Want to know more about breathing meditation? What are the different types of breathing meditation?
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Four observed objects
What are the objects of observation of the establishments of mindfulness? The body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.
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The two manners of meditation
How we grasp at the four observed objects: body, feelings, mind and phenomena. The common and the uncommon manners of meditation.
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Mindfulness of the body
The specific characteristics of the body, the benefits of meditating on the body, and how to meditate on the impure nature of the body.
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Antidotes to desire
Meditating on the body as a skeleton as an antidote to desire, and looking at the ways we can consider feelings and our reactions to…
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How feelings create dukkha
Becoming aware of how our lives revolve around feelings of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral helps us to understand the true cause of our suffering.
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Feelings dominate our reactivity
Dominated by reactivity to our feelings, we cling to desirable objects and cling to wrong views.
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Clinging to feelings
The feelings that compel us to cling to bad ethics and the view of the self lack any real essence and do not bring happiness.
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