Sitting with our thoughts and emotions is one of the first skills taught to beginners along our path. We learn how to be with difficult feelings without acting on the impulses that have controlled us our whole lives. However, the Buddha never said we should not act, only that we should act skillfully. How can we determine if our impulse to do something in any moment is skillful or unskillful? In this week’s Sangha, Payton investigated the question of discerning the effectiveness and wisdom of our emotions.
He played excerpts from the following two talks by Tara Mulay:
