Please watch the following Ted Talk in its entirety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-079YIasck 

Now answer the following questions with a paragraph the length of which must at a minimum be  4-5 sentences each. Please proofread your work before submitting your answers. If your work is unintelligible, the answers are off-topic, finds itself riddled with grammatical errors, or just appears to have been sloppily thrown together without any thought, then it is more than likely you will be asked to repeat the assignment. Please answer the following:

1. Shi retells a story for the audience that he heard from a Master while at his temple. Please retell that story as he told it. Why is it important to experience life for yourself while on your path?

2. Please name the 5 Hindrances and their meanings.

3. What example does Master Shi use to describe the first hindrance? What are the five different aspects of that hindrance?

4. Please name the 4 techniques in RAIN.

5. What thoughts did this talk bring up in you? What feelings? Is there anything about the talk that you disagree/agree with? If so please explain why in detail.

6. Finally, ask yourself what sort of judgments entered your mind simply upon seeing the Master. Which of those judgments turned out to be wrong/right? Where does that judgment/perception/filter come from? Is it one of the 5 Hindrances? Explain.