Day 4: Muditā, Forgetting Again, and Then Exploring All of It

Part 2 of 2 (Exploring)

Sometimes, joy arrives through someone else’s smile, another’s success. In this entry, a teaching on muditā offers a moment of lightness, only to be followed by a return to grasping and doubt.

But the deeper lesson lands in the tension itself: to practice isn’t to avoid discomfort, but to hold joy and fear, compassion and clinging – together.

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Day 4: Forgetting; Remembering

(Exploring)

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Muditā

The afternoon’s Dharma talk was about joy. Not just any joy – muditā. Sympathetic joy. The kind of happiness that comes not from personal gain but from witnessing someone else’s.

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