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.