The Conscientious Heart: Appamada and the Elephant’s Footprint. Sunday Sangha w/ Roshi Joan Halifax

Free Buddhist meditation and Dharma teachings. Join us live every Sunday @ https://sangha.live/live. Roshi Joan explores the significance of "appamada" which can be understood as heedfulness or conscientiousness, or what Stephen Batchelor has translated as care. Appamada has been called the path to the deathless. "Just as the footprints of all living beings with legs can be encompassed by the footprint of the elephant, and the elephant’s footprint is declared to be supreme among them in terms of its great size; in the same way, heedfulness is the one quality that keeps both kinds of benefits secure—benefits in this life & benefits in lives to come."