Q: Dealing With The Endlessly Critical Voice In My Head

(approx. 11 minutes) KEYWORDS: Q: "I have been keeping up the suggested '15 minutes of non-judgmental awareness practice' and am disconcerted to find an apparently endlessly critical voice in my head. I see where it comes from and how strong it is on sin and guilt, and how weak it is on forgiveness. I understand all too clearly what you mean by unacknowledged dukkha. How to proceed? If you have any more good advice, I will be glad to hear it." Compulsive controlling, unreceived, smoke, fire, indoctrination, knowing not-knowing, anger, counter design, spiritual faculties, heart language, head language, nebulous fear, reintegrated.

Q: "Religion Has Been Used In A Harmful Way Over The Years. I Wonder About The Balance Between Benefit And Harm.”

(approx. 13 minutes) KEYWORDS: "Religion has been used in a very harmful way over the years and I wonder about the balance between benefit and harm.” Tool, task, transforming, wisdom, compassion, self-centred, insensitive, technology, amplification, overarching authority, accountable, fundamentalism, social media, throw the baby out with the bathwater, virtues, rituals, symbols, Dhammapada v 282, cultivation, wanes, scratching, restraint, inner resource, contentment, misuse, synthetic, anxiety, Patimokkha recitation, kusa grass, worshipping the tool, rainbow.