9-3-23 In this final session, we finish reading the book.8-27-23 In this session, we stopped in Chapter 11 at the line: “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer, life because of our quiet.”8-20-23 In this session, we stopped in Chapter 11 at the line: “The karmic fruit of that action might be greatly intensified if we generally live a life of habitual lying, or it may be quite ameliorated if we generally live a life of truthfulness and compassion.”8-13-23 In this session, we stopped before the final exercise of Chapter 10, at the line: “The power of giving grows until it becomes like a great flowing waterfall, until it becomes so natural for us that this is who we are.”8-6-23 In this session, we stopped at the end of Chapter 9.7-30-23 In this session, we stopped in Chapter 9 at the line: “As the Buddha said, pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disrepute constantly arise and pass away, beyond our control.”7-23-23 In this session, we stopped in Chapter 8 at the line: “There is no boundary to happiness; there is no end.”7-16-23 In this session, we stopped at the end of Chapter 6.7-9-23 In this session, we stopped in Chapter 6 at the line: “The last time I went, economic conditions were terribly difficult.”7-2-23 In this session, we stopped at the end of Chapter 5 with “Exercise: Difficult Aspects of Oneself.”6-18-23 In this session, we stopped in chapter 4 at “Exercise: Reflection on Happiness.”6-11-23 In this session we stopped in chapter 3 at the paragraph starting with “The next set of benefits the Buddha points out promises that if we practice metta we will be protected” Note that there is a guided meditation at the beginning of this session.6-4-23 In this session we stopped in chapter 2 at “Exercise: Remembering the good within You”5-28-23 this is the first session of the book, we stopped at the beginning of chapter 2
