This talk outlines basic qualities required in meditation in accordance with: one always prefect in virtue, endowed with wisdom, well concentrated, one energetic and resolute - crosses the flood so hard to cross. SNI53

Details meditation instructions regarding sitting and walking pratice, interviews and attitudes to practice.

Satipatthana instructions in brief, restraint of senses, attitudes, intensity of practice, slowing down.

Exploring mindfulness in the context of Satipatthana.

Dwelling with energy aroused for the abandoning of unwholesome states and the acquisition of wholesome states

Qualities of concentration, arousing and balancing it

Nature of wisdom, factors contributing to the arising of wisdom

Developing wisdom by abandoning ignorance

Illumination, knowledge, joy, calmness

Understanding the nature of impermanence - textual and in practice

Abandoning unvirtuous conduct, unwholesome states. Five kinds of abandoning.

Exploring some facets of equanimity, six factored equanimity

The Buddha's advise on death

Observed changes in the climate system, attribution of climate change, Buddhist perspective, Buddhist response to climate change.

Forms of happiness that result from the development of the mind