Monty Python and the Four Reminders
A Buddhist teaching in a 70s TV show? Looking back over half a lifetime through the lens of the Four Reminders.
July 31, 2020
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A Buddhist teaching in a 70s TV show? Looking back over half a lifetime through the lens of the Four Reminders.
A contemplation on the power of art and creativity, and even language itself, to express and signify what is essential and unnameable.
We’ve stocked up on toilet paper and grocery staples, and figured out how to stay in touch with our communities via Zoom. Like after a death loss, we are left with the question “now what?” We wonder when, and how, things will change in the post-pandemic “new normal.” We are fearful and anxious, with more questions than answers.
A father’s meditation practice resonates in this contemplation of the Four Reminders of Buddhist dharma. Bonus: an analytical meditation exercise to try.
Join us on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. We can make friends with our minds and become present to our lives through working with our breath. In meditation we discover how our conditioned minds work, and thus begin to free ourselves from painful habits of struggle and confusion.
The ḍākinī Niguma’s Vajra Lines of Self-Arising Mahāmudrā presents four flaws that make it difficult to recognize mind’s nature. The main practice of Mahāmudrā is to allow these four flaws to be free in themselves.
