Episodes
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
How to Receive the Dharma with a Clear Mind
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
During this Sunday at the Florida Community of Mindfulness, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner shares with us how being a good student of the Dharma requires the student pursuing a spiritual path to attend to the mind and to possess the desire to change.
The commitment to receive the Dharma with a Clear Mind requires examining the mind to identify the possible ways to receive the teachings. Referred to as "The Three Bowls and Six Stains," these teachings provide a student the opportunity for self-reflection assessing the state of the mind's ability to listen to the teacher without filters and to reflect on the deeply profound question "Is it really a truth?
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Trusting Our True Mind: The Buddha’s Wisdom Path
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Friday Sep 09, 2022
During this Sunday at the Florida Community of Mindfulness, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner shares with us the world we live in: The Mind. These teachings of Buddha on True Mind reveal the uncontaminated, naturally pure mind always calm and still, endless. The lessons promote understanding of wisdom and emptiness in a new way finding energy that fuels the path. Having realized True Mind previously covered by thoughts, stories, dramas, and other attachments, with this understanding of True Mind one can be free and unburdened.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Responding to sangha questions on the nature and function of self
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
A Mother’s Love and the Inner Critic
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Today on Mother's Day, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner shares with us Thich That Hanh’s “A Flower for You” also called “A Rose for your Pocket”; Thay’s appreciation of motherhood. Thay reveals our deep interconnectedness with our mothers.
Fred teaches us ways we can develop a true loving, kind, and compassionate heart. He also teaches about working with the “inner critic”, the subject for the upcoming retreat.
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Shakyamuni and the Birth of the Enlightened Mind
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Today on Vesak, the celebration of the birth of the Buddha, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner shares with us the life and birth of the Buddha and the significance of the Buddha’s Enlightened Mind; that which made the Buddha a Buddha. We celebrate today because the Buddha opened the path to Awakening. He pointed out directly that all of us have this Awakened Nature.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Creating The Basis for a Happy Life
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
In this talk, Dharma Teacher Fred Eppsteiner shares with us a Buddhist prayer; "May all beings have happiness and the cause of happiness. May all beings be free of suffering and the cause of suffering. May they never be disassociated from supreme happiness which is without suffering. May they remain in boundless equanimity free from both attachment to close ones and rejections of others."
Fred teaches us the personal implications of this prayer so it may have relevance for our own life.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Community as Family and Family as Community
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
In this talk, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner shares with us Thich Nhat Hanh’s vision of community, and how a community can manifest as a family and a family as a community. Thay states "I continue to feel that sangha building is the most precious work that we can do as practitioners. The sangha is our community of practice. It is also our refuge. We rely on it and trust it to support our deepest aspirations, give us energy and inspiration on the path of practice."
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Transforming Stress and Anxiety
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Fred describes why he feels this topic is so important in today's world and how the class will be structured. Please visit floridamindfulness.org for more information and to register.
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Healing and Transformation: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
6-5-22
The teachings of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness were the foundation of the Buddha’s meditation system and are the basis for living a wholesome and happy life. Learning to be aware and present to both the experiences of one’s body and to the experiences of one's mind is the practice of full awareness.
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
A Buddhist Response to Endless Wars (2022)
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
4-10-22
In this talk, Dharma Teacher Fred Eppsteiner share with us teachings on love and compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us "It is my conviction that we cannot change the world, if we are not capable of changing our way of thinking, our consciousness. That is why awakening, collective awakening, collective change in our way of thinking, our way of seeing things is very crucial. And all of us can help to promote that. Our task is to come together and to produce, to try to produce a kind of collective awakening.
And there are many ways in order to bring about that kind of collective awakening and change. And that is why to learn to change our way of daily life, so that there is more mindfulness, more peace, more love, is a very urgent thing. And we can do that – beginning now, today."
Peace begins with me. If we want a peaceful world, we have to become peaceful people; free of anger and hatred. We have to uproot the seeds of anger and hatred within ourselves through mindfulness, love, and compassion.