Author: Curt Fish
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Awareness of Mind
Notes Today I’d like to talk about mindfulness of mind, in Pali, cittanupassana. This has come up in the sangha a few times lately, and I wanted to explore it further. David has also come up several times recently. David wrote a wonderful essay called “Looking at Mind – Meditations on That Which Knows”. David…
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Patience
Today we’ll investigate patience (Khanti). The Buddha famously declared khanti to be the supreme purification practice. The Buddha overcame Mara through practicing khanti. Patience is the restraint of holding the heart still in the presence of its suffering until it lets go of the ways in which it creates that suffering. Patience is not about…
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Generosity
Generosity is an important part of our practice. When we offer what we have to others, we break down barriers. Generosity allows us to open up and feel a sense of abundance. Of course, all lovers of the dharma love categories, lists. It may help to think of 4 types of generosity: Giving material things. This is usually…
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It’s About Time We Came to Our Senses Retreat
Join us for this silent meditation retreat exploring awareness of the six sense doors and the perceptual information coming through them. Every sensation or thought that we experience comes to us through the five sense doors of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and feeling sensation plus in Buddhism the mind is considered the sixth sense door…
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Right Effort
These notes are from Curt Fish’s October 13, 2024, Dharma talk. Right Effort is effort directed at cultivating the skillful and abandoning the unskillful. Here’s a description of Right Effort from a post on Quora: Right effort—is such a great limb of the path—such a key spot, internally, in our practice. It’s this beautiful place…
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The Third Noble Truth
The 3rd Noble Truth is the truth of the cessation of suffering. In the first two talks, we learned about the nature of suffering and the cause of suffering. Now we’ll explore the cessation of suffering. From the Buddha: Here, a bhikkhu understands as it actually is: “This is the cessation of suffering”.
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Mindfulness of Mind
Still Mountain Teacher Curt Fish describes the four foundations of mindfulness and how looking at mind states can provide insight into thoughts and behaviors.
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Clear Comprehension
Curt discusess the concept of clear comprehension, covering the conditions that must be present for effective practice.
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Curt Fish
Curt’s first mediation class was through Ann Arbor Rec & Ed, an introduction to meditation offered by Deep Spring in the fall of 2003. He’s been taking classes and sitting retreats offered by Deep Spring and now Still Mountain ever since. Influential teachers are David Lawson, Shaila Catherine and Carol Blotter. Influential books are Mindfulness…
