Last week’s three short talks by Matthew Brensilver presented new perspectives on topics such as delusion and clinging, and engendered a very fertile discussion. Equanimity is not about the future or the present, but about accepting what has already come to pass without distorting it with the delusion that disguises our strategies of evasion.
This week Jeff focused our discussion on two related short talks by Brensilver. The first focuses on our anticipations, and the second on the ways in which “performing the self” enhances our pain, rather than providing the reassurance that it seems to promise. Getting past this performance of the self we arrive at the wonder and openness of equanimity.
- Equanimity (2 of 5): Safety and Compulsive Hypothesis-Testing https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/13990
- Equanimity (4 of 5): Skillfully Meeting Feelings Associated with Self https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/14000
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