Hi everyone. Welcome to our second class on the Mind of Freedom. So I wanted to start this evening with a little bit of a recap from what we talked about last week.

Kind of, again, we're exploring the Buddha's description of what a mind that is free,

that is, has released greed, aversion, and delusion, this definition of the freedom of mind that's possible with our practice.

So we're exploring several suitas in relationship to this topic and what we explored last week was kind of more on the side of how do our minds usually relate to experience. So that was the teaching in the

Honeyball Suta. And I want to just review briefly that teaching that we talked about last week and then elaborate

a little bit more on the kind of pithy teaching that the Buddha offered in that in that suta.

So if you'll remember this suta started, the honeyball

honeyball suta started with a conversation between the

Buddha and someone and the Buddha gave this like one line teaching that the

person just didn't understand and he kind of walked he walked off in kind of a huff and it was a very

opaque kind of teaching because when his students when the Buddha's he went back and talked to his own students and told them what he had said to this person they said well can you elaborate we don't get that too well and so he gave another kind of pithy teaching slightly longer and after that one they kind of puzzled that one out for a little bit and and the Buddha went off to meditate and they realized, well, we don't understand this one either.

We need to ask somebody about this one.

And so we reviewed that third elaboration last time.

And I'll read that piece.

This is how we, this is the piece of the teaching

that describes how we typically relate to sense experience.

Dependent on the eye and forms, eye consciousness arises.

The meeting of the three is contact. With contact as condition there is feeling.

What one feels that one perceives. What one perceives that one thinks about.

What one thinks about that one mentally

proliferates. With what one has mentally proliferated as the source, perceptions

and notions born of mental proliferation beset one with respect to past, future, and present forms cognizable through the eye.

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