Spring 2012 Shamatha Retreat

For the cultivation of genuine happiness there are certain aspects of reality, the knowing of which does really liberate. Alan mentions the following 'game-changers': To gain insight into impermanence, to gain experiential insight into what are the true causes of suffering and genuine happiness, to gain insight into the very absence of there being some autonomous, substantial 'self' - 'I' - 'me', to gain some realization of the absence of inherit nature of all phenomena - realization of emptiness and finally to realize prestine awareness - your own ultimate ground of being. Meditation starts at 08:44