Seeing Life with Clarity and Intelligence: The Path of Dharma (2 of 4)

The practices of mindfulness and meditation are not enough to support our healing and transformation. To truly reduce our suffering and to live a life of freedom and ease, we must view this ever changing life with insight and wisdom.

The Buddha’s fundamental teachings about “Right View” offers us an intelligent, wise and practical template to understand life, why it unfolds the way it does, and how to relate to it in a skillful and compassionate way. Without Right View, we will be prone to misperceiving and misinterpreting life and therefore be constantly stirring the waters of afflictive mind states and emotions. With Right View, we have the opportunity to live a life of calmness, openness, and love.

During this silent four day residential retreat in Tampa, Florida in February 2014, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner led students in the study of, meditation on, and practice of the Buddha's fundamental teachings about Right View.