1. Check-in Any questions or comments on what we’ve discussed so far?
U-shaped layout of chairs – shrine below screen – have people walk past the shrine
Walking the path of serenity and wisdom in the face of suffering
Letting go ... Letting go... Letting go
Intention: go out with a feeling of serenity – act in a way that prepares them for aging, sickness, dying and death

2. The Fourth Messenger Awakening
There is a way out of this suffering and there is still time

3. Dealing with suffering and stress
Denial
Avoidance
Escape
Fighting
Fixing
Freezing
Resignation
Despair or
Pursuing a path to awakening
Denial – spiritual bypassing

4. Practice Forgiveness for ourselves and others
Loving kindness and compassion for ourselves and others
Letting go of attachment to possessions, people and who we think we are
Serenity meditation – developing joy, happiness and tranquility
Insight meditation
Aging, sickness and death are natural
Impermanence, inherent discomfort, and not-self
Keeping a journal of kind and generous actions
Developing faith

5. Serenity Faith Joy Rapture Tranquility Happiness Stillness
dukkha->saddha ->pāmojja ->pīti ->passaddhi ->sukha ->samādhi ->yathābhūtañāṇadassanassa ->nibbidā->virāga->vimutti->khayeñāṇassa
Pāmojja – delight, joy, gladness

6. Insight Knowledge and vision of things as they really are
Disenchantment
Dispassion
Liberation
Knowledge of the end of the causes of suffering
dukkha->saddha ->pāmojja ->pīti ->passaddhi ->sukha ->samādhi ->yathābhūtañāṇadassanassa ->nibbidā->virāga->vimutti->khayeñāṇassa
Khayeñānassa – end of the taints: the taint of sensual desire, the taint of being and the taint of ignorance

7. Practical steps Developing virtue Doing as much good as you can
Practicing serenity meditation
Practicing insight meditation
Paying attention to
your suffering
Leading to ...
Awakening
U-shaped layout of chairs – shrine below screen – have people walk past the shrine
Intention: go out with a feeling of serenity – act in a way that prepares them for aging, sickness, dying and death

8. Small group discussion
Where are you in this process?
What has changed for you in
these weeks?

9. Discussion Forgiveness for ourselves and others
Loving kindness and compassion for ourselves and others
Letting go of attachment to possessions, people and who we think we are
Serenity meditation – developing joy, happiness and tranquility
Insight meditation – seeing the way things actually are
Keeping a journal of kind and generous actions
Developing faith
Wrap up on questions and issues still outstanding

10. Parting instructions
Where do you go from here?