The difference between the "concentration" of serenity and the concentration of insight. Developed in the frame of the four spheres of existence.

The various aspects upekkha can take in regard to our practice.

In this brief reflection, Shaila Catherine speaks about the role of patience in meditation practice. We need patience to endure conditions that we cannot control, such as heat and cold, mosquito bites, and unpleasant or wanted perceptions. We need patience to continue to cultivate mindfulness without judging our degree of success. We need patience to trust the spiritual faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom to gradually mature. We need patience to observe the flow of lived experiences, simply meeting each moment with the interest to know what is being known, and the quality of mind that is knowing it. Patience is worth developing.

In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages meditative investigation and curiosity to know the mind well. The teaching is based on AN 6.131, that instructs meditators to know 6 things (sensual desire, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma/action, suffering) in 6 ways (the phenomena as it appears, causes/origins, diversity, outcome/effects, cessation, and way leading to cessation).

The 5 Faculties (Indriya) represented as diligence, its coachman, and its 4 horses.

Investigation into the process of cognition based on the six sense doors and questioning the reality of the self-identity.

How the training of our mind brings a clearer perspective. Understanding the process of dying on the experiential level.

Climb a tree and use the perspective you get when on top. The street here is also compared with the body.

The first of the Satipatthana practices for establishing mindfulness is the body.

Buddha's advice to Ananda after Sariputta's and Maha Moggallana's deaths. (SN.)