Top Highlights

• Suffering is a product of conditioned existence.
• “occurs when you can uproot the tree whose seed is the ’I’-maker, deep in the heart with all its branches, fruits and leaves. Leave the mechanism of the ’I’-maker alone Kumbha says and just rest in the space in the heart.”6
• The aim of practice is to bring duḥkha to an end by facing saṁsāra in order to uproot the egoic tendencies of the mind.
• Our psychological and physical patterns, as ingrained and self-perpetuating matrices, keep us bound to the wheel of saṁsāra, and thus the turning wheel of conditioned existence.
• six poisons: kāma (“desire”), krodha (“anger”), moha (“delusion”), lobha (“greed”), mada (“envy”), mātsarya (“sloth”). These six poisons are symptomatic of a heart unsatisfied, a life characterized by suffering.