Podcasts religion Fall 2011 Shamatha Retreat 35 Empathetic Joy, part 1

35 Empathetic Joy, part 1

Published: Sept. 15, 2011, 11:34 a.m.

b'Alan discusses how to approach one\\u2019s shamatha practice in a wise way - not by focusing upon \\u201chow it went\\u201d but rather on one\\u2019s application and effort. One should see that in every moment, no matter how good or bad, one is \\u201caccomplishing shamatha\\u201d. Turning to empathetic joy (47:47), he urges us to attend to and draw out the goodness in others. He deals with questions (72:26) regarding the notion of attending to thought without grasping, how to induce lucid dreaming, distinctions between vipashanya and shamatha and discusses the Buddhist perspective of Carl Jung\\u2019s concept of the collective unconscious.'