Realizing the Nature of Mind - (IMS Forest Refuge)

Talk titled: "Realizing the Nature of Mind", given during the event "IMS Forest Refuge". Held at IMS Forest Refuge, Barre, Massachusetts on 2009-05-21. Topics covered: beyond spaciousness/the vastness of awareness, emptiness of time, practice: neither one nor many, mind as a mirror metaphor, emptiness/insight: the nature of mind or awareness, emptiness: dependence on mind, mind's dependence, emptiness/insight: fading, unfabricating Teacher's note on suitability: through practice we can glimpse a sense of the nature of awareness as something ever present and awesomely vast, and this sense can be cultivated as a profound resource for freedom and peace in our lives. but eventually we must see even beyond this to know the ultimate nature of the mind - empty, completely groundless, and dependently-arisen - a seeing which brings an even deeper freedom. this talk explores some of the ways this realization might be encouraged and developed in meditation. --- To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it. Original audio: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/ta... Transcript link: https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/...