7 Factors of Awakening, 3 Approaches to the Unconditioned: Talk with Rick Hanson on Feb. 24, 2021
Channel: Rick Hanson
Date: 2021-02-26

In this talk with Rick Hanson from his Wednesday Night Meditation + Talk, the focus was on Seven Factors of Awakening, and Three Approaches to the Unconditioned. The Seven Factors of Awakening are as follows: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Bliss/Joy, Tranquility, Concentration (samadhi), and Equanimity. 

Three ways to engage what is “unconditioned, unfabricated” - 1.) Disentangle from conditioned patterns of reactivity and suffering, and rest in what is effectively unconditioned, such as awareness, possibility, spaciousness, not-knowing. 2.) Train in having extraordinary states of being in which conditioned experiences cease, within ordinary reality. 3.) Possibly: open into what is transcendentally unconditioned, deathless, timeless, eternal.

You can see the meditation that went along with this talk here: https://youtu.be/Uog7vIQY7Y4


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