Q: Could The Mind Actually Become Our Friend?

(approx. 12 minutes) KEYWORDS: "Could the mind actually become our friend? At what point should we say....’enough, leave it be. Enough work has been done'?" There must come a point when we no longer need to keep looking back for the clearance of Dukkha.” Doubt, old pain, Ajahn Chah, friends, liking, trusting, honesty, stories, patient endurance, bhava tanha, obstruction, abstraction, balanced practice, allowing practice to happen, ‘doing the practice’, bowing, rituals, going for refuge, selflessness, ‘my way’, recovering, Aligning Meditation, disembodied, the unknown, limited disposition, open-hearted, befriending.

Q: What Is sangha When We Are Alone?

(approx. 13 minutes) Keywords: Companions, community, conventional emotional needs, kalyanamitta, spiritual friends, mistranslations, Three Refuges, Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, irreversible transformation, unshakeably established, arahant, ariya Sangha, symbolic sangha, foundations, The Discourse on the Greatest Blessings, Mahamangala Sutta, drug dealers, abattoir workers, internet, honouring, bowing, living in suitable places, accumulated punnya, building up a storehouse of wholesomeness, potential, rightly aligned, laws, gravity, loneliness, narrow doorway, contented aloneness.