Bringing awareness to our experience, we will eventually notice the motions of the mind that are known in Buddhist thought as the Five Hindrances. Desire and aversion, ill will, restlessness and worry, sloth and torpor, and doubt appear and disappear, mixing in a complex alchemy that can seem, at times, to take over our life.k
Fortunately for us, the teachings give us a collection of antidotes to make friends with these parts of human experience and transform them into skillful thoughts instead of letting them frustrate and cause us suffering.
This week, Payton returned to the basic teaching of the Five Hindrances and explored how we can recognize and transform them in the course of our days.
Payton played a talk by Kristina Bare which you can listen to here:
