Cathy Small is an author and retired professor of anthropology. who has been practicing vipassana meditation for more than twenty-five years. She has completed numerous extended meditation retreats focusing on awareness, loving kindness and concentration. Since 2010, she has co-taught this six-week course in Insight Meditation every semester for community members and faculty and staff at Northern Arizona University, and has also offered a mindfulness course for inmates at the Coconino County jail. She is a regular teacher at the Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community.
This talk explores the wise action dimension of the eightfold path. Abstinence is really only the beginning practice of wise action. The full intention is much vaster than that.