Luis Burgis
Practice Guide
Practice Guide
  • Practice Guide
  • Skills
    • Foundational Skills
    • Equanimity
      • 1 Calm & Overwhelm
      • 2 Physical Softness & Restlessness
      • 3 Mental Softness & Restlessness
      • 4 Joyful Contentment & Dryness
      • 5 Softening
    • Conditioning
      • Distinguishing Positivity & Negativity
        • Strengthening Virtue
        • Weakening Vice
      • Loving-Kindness
        • Activating Kindness
        • Kindness Self
        • Kindness to All
        • Kindness to Difficult Person
        • Fundamental Kindness
      • Forgiveness
      • Feel Good
    • Sensory Clarity
      • Causality
      • Deconstruction
      • Auto
      • Best Opportunity
      • Enchantment & Disenchantment
    • Attention
      • Shorten Mind Wandering
    • Applied Skills
      • Daily Life
      • Procrastination to Alignment
      • Posture
      • Pain: Reducing Suffering
  • Understanding
    • System Design
    • Conditioning
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  • Practice Visualization
  • Overview - Skills
  • Overview - Practice Instructions
  1. Skills

Foundational Skills

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Introduction

Guided Practice - Foundation

Practice Visualization

Overview - Skills

Name
What
Benefit

Our return base which is based on releasing excessive effort

  • Facilitates Virtue

  • Independent happiness i.e., based on letting go

  • Decondition Vices

Interest towards the causal relationship

  • Understanding & directly experiencing Causality

  • Facilitates improvement as we understand the causes to apply or remove

Perceiving the benefit

  • Facilitate virtues & hinder vices

  • Automating behavior

Perceiving the disadvantage

  • Hinder vices & facilitate virtues

  • Discouraging automated behavior

Recognising that everything is happening by it self, caused by specific conditions, outside your control

  • Facilitates Attitude of Offering > Forcing

  • Facilitates Softness

  • Facilitates independent happiness

  • Facilitates Virtue

  • Hinders Vices

  • Facilitates Understanding of Causality

  • Perceiving oneself as an aggregate of habits that can be improved upon

Perceiving every moment as an opportunity to improve upon

  • Facilitates inspiration to cause good

  • Facilitates being happy & optimistic

  • Hindering the habituated response of perceiving problems with dread, suffering, pessimism

Habits that are based on and strengthened by softness and in harmony with your values

  • Recognize Virtue

  • Cultivating Virtue

Habits that are based on non-softness and weakened by softness, and in disharmony with your values

  • Recognize Vice

  • Decondition Vices

Overview - Practice Instructions

Benefits

  • Enjoyable, facilitating and compounding development in happiness and virtue

  • Facilitating the hindering and deconditioning of suffering and vice

  • Positive Attitude towards one's values

    • Causality & Auto: 'What are the causes that will positively influence this?'

    • Best Opportunity: 'What is the best next step?'

    • Reward > Penalty

Instructions

Establishing the Base

  1. Establishing a base of softness

  2. Enchanting with Softness

Cultivating Virtue

  1. Activate Virtue or Virtue automatically arises

  2. Soften into the virtue

  3. Enchant with Virtuous Softness

Decondition Vices

  1. Activate Vice or Vice automatically arises

  2. Disenchant with Vice

  3. Soften into the Vice

  4. Enchant with Softness

Daily Life

The practice can be applied in any situation in life

  • Continue to recognize Softness, Non-Softness, Virtue and Vice

  • Soften, Enchant, or Disenchant

Consider

  • Remember the perspective of 'best opportunity'

    • 'What is the best next step I can take?'

    • Enjoy this opportunity

  • Remember the perspective of 'Auto'

    • As this is happening all by itself, how can I best support positive change?

  • Softening is the opposite of trying. Whenever you notice trying or struggling, release the effort underlying it.

Progress

  • Becoming sensitive to what it feels like to experience softness and virtue compared to non-softness and vice

  • Ability to soften and enchant with softness and virtue

  • Ability to soften & disenchant with vice

  • Perceiving causality & 'auto' in your sensory experience and the external world

  • Being glad that you can improve upon the current situation ('best opportunity')

Softening
Curiosity
Enchantment
Disenchantment
Perspective Auto
Perspective Best Opportunity
Virtue
Vice
Drawing