025 -- The Four Great Efforts: Becoming a Curator of the Mind; Johnathan Woodside, 07/05/22

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Mindfulness Outreach Initiative

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Weekly Dharma talks from the teachers of Mindfulness Outreach Initiative (MOI) Omaha. Located in Omaha, Nebraska, MOI is a 501(c)3 nonprofit Insight Meditation organization providing meditation instruction rooted in teachings of ethics, compassion, and wisdom. MOI offers weekly in-person and online meditation, retreats, and study groups. Through diverse community outreach efforts MOI works to make meditation and mindfulness training accessible to all.

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025 -- The Four Great Efforts: Becoming a Curator of the Mind; Johnathan Woodside, 07/05/22

Mindfulness Outreach Initiative

39 minutes 57 seconds

3 years ago

025 -- The Four Great Efforts: Becoming a Curator of the Mind; Johnathan Woodside, 07/05/22

In this week’s talk, MOI teacher Johnathan Woodside discusses the Four Great Efforts, stating that they are the formula for transformation. This formula is simple: (1) diminish unwholesome states that already have arisen, (2) prevent unwholesome states that haven’t arisen from arising, (3) strengthen the wholesome states that are already developed, and (4) develop and cultivate the wholesome states that have not yet arisen. Johnathan likens it to being a curator of the mind. Just as one hires a curator to develop a collection of art, we can be the curator of our own minds, developing a collection of wholesome qualities for display. Johnathan then encourages us to use the ten perfections of generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, determination, loving-kindness, and equanimity as templates for our own exhibit. Ultimately the Four Great Efforts come down to cultivating supportive conditions for happiness. When such conditions are in place, happiness comes to be.

If you feel inspired by these teachings, and wish to practice generosity, please consider supporting MOI and its teachers by visiting, https://mindfulnessoutreachinitiative.org/generosity/