Skills of Music and Dhamma, Playing with Smoking | Beau #1, Robert Ca | 6.6.22

Robert, Beau, and Dhammarato talk about the relationship between music skills and meditation skills, investigating the hindrances, and gaining mastery and control through play and crazy thinking. #mindfulness #smoking #playfulness

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00:00:00 Can meditation skills be used in music? Analogy of changing gears: similarities and differences
00:05:57 Mastering skills; dealing with things right here, right now
00:11:21 Becoming tired of gladdening the mind; strategies for exhausted and exhausting; just stop (MN 86)
00:20:11 Investigating cause and effect - a missing element in Western Buddhism; analogy with chemical reactions
00:25:07 Figure out what it is you’re doing; you’re already in the holy place
00:29:36 Wanting to smoke; hatred for the desire; hatred for yourself
00:45:21 We imprison ourselves in rules; self-flagellation
00:48:47 Feelings and associated sensations in the body; crazy thinking and taking control 
00:56:33 Sati one of five faculties, four foundations of mindfulness, seven factors of awakening, and the noble eightfold path
01:00:03 Secondary self-hatred; self-acceptance - or complete friendliness; the mentality of always