As if the world not obeying our wishes wasn’t hard enough, we are often completely surrounded by noise. Sometimes that noise takes the form of literal sounds: phone calls, the charismatic TV, the shouted town meeting. Increasingly that noise is textual: email, text messages, social media. And ever present is the noise of the mind: worries, analyses, hopes. A portion of this noise is valuable and necessary, but too often the noise carries us away with it. We become reactive animals without any way to discern what is wholesome and what leads to further suffering. Do the teachings offer us a guide on how to retain our focus in the midst of the distracting Worldly Winds? Payton tried to find out this Sunday along with the rest of our Sangha.
Payton played a talk by Gil Fronsdal, which you can listen to here: https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/6111
