The True Meaning of Success Part 2
Lesson 13 from: FAST CLASS: Meditation for Everyday LifeDavid Nichtern
The True Meaning of Success Part 2
Lesson 13 from: FAST CLASS: Meditation for Everyday LifeDavid Nichtern
Lesson Info
13. The True Meaning of Success Part 2
Lessons
Introduction - Why Meditate?
15:12 2How to Meditate - Taking Your Seat
12:59 3Placing Attention on Breath
04:32 4Labeling Thoughts as Thinking
06:35 5How to Meditate - Leaving Some Space
12:19 6Bringing Meditation Into Everyday Life
11:30 7Digging Into the Practice Part 2
05:51 8Obstacles Along the Way
08:29Obstacles Along the Way Part 2
08:59 10Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety
26:56 11Body, Emotions, Mind, Stress, Anxiety Part 2
06:28 12The True Meaning of Success
18:28 13The True Meaning of Success Part 2
03:40 14Developing Compassion for Ourselves & Others
04:39 15Compassion for Ourselves & Others Part 2
29:34 16Compassion and Mindfulness
26:27 17Compassion and Mindfulness Part 2
08:11 18Happiness and Joy
18:15 19Happiness and Joy Part 2
04:06 20How to Go Forward
10:59 21How to Go Forward Part 2
07:31Lesson Info
The True Meaning of Success Part 2
there's a contemplation that I would invite you to do and we maybe we can in the morning just take a quick look at these before we move on. Um these five topics that you write one paragraph on each topic. Okay so the first topic I called aspiration and this was a little bit what we're talking about. What is your vision of your life? What are you aspiring to? What would you like to see your life become? What would you like to achieve? How would you like to be seen? What do you aspire to? The second topic is inspiration. Uh what inspires you? You know, we're sort of like what gets you out of bed in the morning? What what keeps you moving? What keeps your life moving forward and upward? Are there are there models of behavior that you relate to? Are there people who inspire you? Are their teachers, leaders who inspire you? Are their ideas, historical figures, you know, what is the source of your inspiration? Um Then the 3rd 1 is motivation. And as you aspire, what is it that's motivating y...
ou? Is it some kind of selfish motivation or self oriented motivation to become a great person to to have kind of everything you want? Is there some altruistic motivation involved? You want to be helpful to others? You know, being very honest about it, That's this is an opportunity not to say what anybody else thinks you want, but it's a chance to explore your own. And it can be, I've done this with students, it can be very, very revealing, even though it seems kind of kind of simplistic in a way. So out of all that and of your aspiration, your inspiration and your motivation. Usually we forge some kind of intention. Like I mean to pry want to practice, I wanna get better at my job, you know, I want to to get a promotion, I want to run this whole company, you know, there's some intention that I want to really help people. I want to really raise awareness of global warming. You have some kind of intention and it's a focused kind of energy that you want to, you want to bring to bear on two things, It's not totally casual, it's not like well whatever man, you know, Yeah, I'll just want to get through the day, well if your intention is to get through the day, you could say so if that's what you intend And then the 5th 1 is perspiration, what are you doing about it? And how much is your effort? Perspiration this effort? How much of your effort and exertion is in line with your aspiration inspiration, motivation and intention and how much of it is just taking you into a completely different, you know, um you know, if you say you want to get in shape this year, you know, and that's your aspiration and your inspiration for that as you see great athletes and they look so healthy and powerful and you dig that and then um your motivation is you want to do that for your own benefit, but also for the benefit of your family and friends so that you can be happy and healthy and your intention is to sort of get into the gym and and and kind of get yourself in shape this year, what are you doing about it? How much in line is your action with your your intentions? So this is like a self, a little self evaluation kind of process that we can take home with us if you don't get it done tonight, it's okay, you can try it on your own and just see what what you say. So it's aspiration, inspiration, motivation, intention, perspiration and there's no right answers. This is for your own ability to sort of illuminate these things for yourself.
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