The Way of the Great Perfection
A program of the All-Encompassing Path to Enlightenment
Having spent the recent months developing our love, compassion, joy and equanimity with the help of the “Four Immeasurables”, and paying particular attention to our habit of attachment to some and aversion to others with the aim to become able to include all beings equally in our wish for their happiness and freedom from suffering, we will now shift our focus to our basic tendency of grasping at a false sense of self and the self centeredness, coarse or subtle, that goes along with it.
In our endeavour to overcome them we will start to gently train ourselves in three consecutive steps, by
- Considering others as equal to oneself,
- Exchanging oneself and others and
- Considering others as more important as ourselves.
Reflecting on where we are at in our understanding and application of the teachings so far, in this session we will explore the first step – to see ourselves and others as entirely equal in our quest for happiness – as a preparation for the next steps that will follow over the next months.