“Choosing Love” with Jean This Sunday at Minneapolis Insight

Dear Community,

Last week Benjamin led us in an exploration of how to free our minds and hearts from unwholesome habit patterns. If unseen, these can lead to our own and others suffering. With intention and mindfulness, we can choose to go in a different direction, laying down the foundation for a path of non-suffering.

The brahmaviharas or “divine abodes” are helpful in this endeavor. Choosing to turn our minds to the practice of love – lovingkindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and/or equanimity – can be a powerful antidote to our unwholesome habit patterns.  And practicing them in the present makes it more likely that this is where our hearts and minds will go in the future.  As the neuroscientist Carla Schatz famously put it “neurons that fire together, wire together” (Shatz, C. J. (1992).  The developing brain.  Scientific American, 267(3), 60-67). 

This Sunday we will focus on the brahmaviharas, the practice of love. Please join us. All are welcome. Registration and Zoom information available here.

With mettā,
Minneapolis Insight