My Relationships: Medicine, or Poison?

About this episode

This episode explores how relationships impact our spiritual life and offers insights on discerning their effects through mindfulness and meditation.

The Buddha insisted that our relationships make up the "whole" of our spiritual life, and and urged us to use our mindfulness practice to become more aware of who we're choosing to associate with in order to assure our sense of peace and well-being. Happily, his teachings offer us numerous ways that we can use our meditation practice to better discern whether our relationships are offering us poison (or, something that makes us feel bad), or medicine. This talk explores how we can tap into our wise bodies and hearts to help us make these important decisions. It includes a meditation at the end.

Topics covered

• relationships
• mindfulness
• meditation
• spiritual life
• Buddhism

Keywords

• peace
• well-being
• discernment
• wise bodies
• heart

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