Florida Community of Mindfulness

Learn the Three Difficult Points (2019)

December 15, 2019 

In this Dharma talk to students of the Florida Community of Mindfulness, Dharma Teacher Fred Eppsteiner continues the series on the Lojong (Mind Trainings) teachings explaining slogan 44: "Learn the three difficult points." 

 

The Dharma of Scrooge (2019)

December 22, 2019

In this Dharma talk, Fred Eppsteiner relates the story of the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from Dickens', "A Christmas Carol." Through this story, Fred explains how we can all transform the suffering we experience from living a life devoted to self into a happy, meaningful life filled with love and compassion for others. 

 

Fred Talks about FCM's 3 Paths of Practice and Answers Questions from the Audience (2017)

June 9, 2017 

In this talk, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner explains that both happiness and unhappiness are conditions of our mind. He says that mindfulness is essential to develop so that we can be aware of whether we are cultivating wholesome or unwholesome mind states.  In this way, we can be sure to cultivate only wholesome mind sates which give rise to a happy mind.  He goes on to explain how we must practice where we are in our spiritual development, not where we wish we were. Although the path is about cultivating the skills that can take us from where we are now to where we want to be, we must begin with acceptance and unconditional love toward ourselves, exactly as we are right now.

The Fundamentals: The Four Seals of Buddhism (6 of 6) (2019)

Non-residential Retreat | October 2019 

In this series, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner discusses The Four Seals of Buddhism. The Four Seals are what the Buddha taught to help people clearly understand the fundamental characteristics that ‘stamp’ all human experience. They are the Buddha’s understanding of reality and thus can be confirmed through our own experience. Through analytical introspection and direct observation, the essential truths of reality can be clearly seen by anyone who contemplates these Four Seals. This facilitates the birth of true wisdom so that we can live with greater discernment, intelligence and an enhanced ability to make wise decisions and choices in our life.

The Four Seals are impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self, and nirvana or true peace.

The Fundamentals: The Four Seals of Buddhism (5 of 6) (2019)

Non-residential Retreat | October 2019 

In this series, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner discusses The Four Seals of Buddhism. The Four Seals are what the Buddha taught to help people clearly understand the fundamental characteristics that ‘stamp’ all human experience. They are the Buddha’s understanding of reality and thus can be confirmed through our own experience. Through analytical introspection and direct observation, the essential truths of reality can be clearly seen by anyone who contemplates these Four Seals. This facilitates the birth of true wisdom so that we can live with greater discernment, intelligence and an enhanced ability to make wise decisions and choices in our life.

The Four Seals are impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self, and nirvana or true peace.

The Fundamentals: The Four Seals of Buddhism (4 of 6) (2019)

Non-residential Retreat | October 2019 

In this series, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner discusses The Four Seals of Buddhism. The Four Seals are what the Buddha taught to help people clearly understand the fundamental characteristics that ‘stamp’ all human experience. They are the Buddha’s understanding of reality and thus can be confirmed through our own experience. Through analytical introspection and direct observation, the essential truths of reality can be clearly seen by anyone who contemplates these Four Seals. This facilitates the birth of true wisdom so that we can live with greater discernment, intelligence and an enhanced ability to make wise decisions and choices in our life.

The Four Seals are impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self, and nirvana or true peace.

The Fundamentals: The Four Seals of Buddhism (3 of 6) (2019)

Non-residential Retreat | October 2019 

In this series, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner discusses The Four Seals of Buddhism. The Four Seals are what the Buddha taught to help people clearly understand the fundamental characteristics that ‘stamp’ all human experience. They are the Buddha’s understanding of reality and thus can be confirmed through our own experience. Through analytical introspection and direct observation, the essential truths of reality can be clearly seen by anyone who contemplates these Four Seals. This facilitates the birth of true wisdom so that we can live with greater discernment, intelligence and an enhanced ability to make wise decisions and choices in our life.

The Four Seals are impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self, and nirvana or true peace.

The Fundamentals: The Four Seals of Buddhism (2 of 6) (2019)

Non-residential Retreat | October 2019 

In this series, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner discusses The Four Seals of Buddhism. The Four Seals are what the Buddha taught to help people clearly understand the fundamental characteristics that ‘stamp’ all human experience. They are the Buddha’s understanding of reality and thus can be confirmed through our own experience. Through analytical introspection and direct observation, the essential truths of reality can be clearly seen by anyone who contemplates these Four Seals. This facilitates the birth of true wisdom so that we can live with greater discernment, intelligence and an enhanced ability to make wise decisions and choices in our life.

The Four Seals are impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self, and nirvana or true peace.

The Fundamentals: The Four Seals of Buddhism (1 of 6) (2019)

Non-residential Retreat | October 2019 

In this series, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner discusses The Four Seals of Buddhism. The Four Seals are what the Buddha taught to help people clearly understand the fundamental characteristics that ‘stamp’ all human experience. They are the Buddha’s understanding of reality and thus can be confirmed through our own experience. Through analytical introspection and direct observation, the essential truths of reality can be clearly seen by anyone who contemplates these Four Seals. This facilitates the birth of true wisdom so that we can live with greater discernment, intelligence and an enhanced ability to make wise decisions and choices in our life.

The Four Seals are impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self, and nirvana or true peace.

Guidance for Life: The Ten Major Mahayana Precepts (2019)

October 19, 2019 

In this talk, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner comments on the Ten Major Mahayana Precepts also found as the "Ten Precepts of a Zen Peacemaker" and how we can reflect & practice with them to be a guide leading us along the path in our everyday life.