THIS SUNDAY, June 15  |  10:00am – 12:00pm 

Guest Teacher, Carole Melkonian

Dharma Talk Topic: Wise Effort

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Please join us in welcoming Carole Melkonian to PIMC this Sunday, June 15. Carole's Dharma talk will focus on the theme of Wise Effort:

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From Carole: One of the things that brings some of us to practice is a confidence that there’s a more skillful way of relating to our life experience than grasping at what we want and pushing away what we don’t want. Something calls us to listen in a deeper way to what’s quiet vs what’s noisy in our lives and there’s a confidence to follow that call. This quality is called saddha, translated as a faith or confidence in our capacity to open to skillful ways of being and set down the hindrances that block that opening.

Wise Effort is an ongoing practice that balances the way we meet our experience both in meditation and in our lives. One question Wise Effort asks is, ‘What’s a wise response to what’s arising in this moment?’

Ajahn Sucitto writes, ‘The practice of Right/Wise Effort is to savor skillful states and
linger in them because they are food for the heart/mind and if the heart/mind feeds on these skillful states, it won’t get restless and hungry, murky and agitated, fearful and depressed because it is getting good food.'

I look forward to exploring the practice of Wise Effort with you this Sunday ~