Triple Gem of the North Sathi

Ever wondered why you get angry so quickly? Perhaps you're looking for ways to have a healthier relationship between you and anger when it arises? While this reaction is an all too familiar feeling in each of us, it can harm us in a variety of different ways and severities. In this episode, Bhante Sathi discusses the importance of differentiating annoyance and anger along with overcoming the challenges they inflict. He also discusses how anger may feel unavoidable,even justified, but it is still a choice.

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between vipassana meditation and loving kindness meditation? In this episode, Bhante Sathi covers the benefits of each meditation along with their relationship with one another. We also discuss what to do when you feel as though your qualities strengthened by these types of meditation practrices are depleted or challanged.

Bhante Sathi talks about the idea of “attachment”—
Attachments do not have an inherently bad nature. Misunderstanding attachments is what causes us pain. There is wisdom in approaching and understanding attachment within the concept of impermanence.

In this episode, Bhante Sathi talks about the idea of “harmonious understanding”— an understanding free from bias and ignorance. He also details the Four Realizations a person with harmonious understanding will encounter.

Bhante explains how meditation is this unique activity that allows us to develop the way we see ourselves.

He also explains how what we do in the meditation cushion can influence our lives beyond the meditation session:
• Looking inwards instead of at external things or people to improve ourselves
• Using humbleness and happiness as tools for continuous growth, and not just as mere thoughts or emotions

Bhante described how there are four characteristics of the mind that manifest during meditation:
• Mind doesn't know the distance
• Mind travels by itself
• Mind doesn’t have a body
• Mind is the most powerful controller of yourself

As part of this session Bhante also recommended a daily practice to follow: take care of your mind is an infant totally relying on you, without judgments or complaints about it; without caring about what comes to the mind whether good or bad, maintain your unconditional love as you would with an infant.