Where’s the problem when everything is always changing? Can you find it? Can you find it outside of thought? Really look at that…we can easily find things that need changing within thought, as thought. Do they exist anywhere else?Can you hold onto the problem? Can you hold onto anything? When we can’t hold onto anything, what
It can look like there are things in our lives we need to accept. Acceptance is a concept, in this case. We have an idea of what acceptance is and what it looks like, and we’re told it’s a good idea if we don’t want to suffer.When we can’t accept (how do we even do
In this episode, we’ll explore the difference between thinking and looking. Thinking is taking what’s said as another concept to go back and ponder. It’s adding more thought to what is already a lot of thought.Looking is looking into what’s here now, before labels and concepts. It looks like curiosity rather than pondering. There may be
Chris Neibauer is the author of No Self, No Problem. Chris talks about how the left brain interpreter, narrative-self, works and how we easily mistake that narration for who we are. This is a beautiful, deep conversation that goes far beyond neuroscience. His way of explaining how and why we become mind-identifying is so helpful.You
A vague, ill-defined feeling of uneasiness is behind so much of what we do. Look for yourself and see–is something we might label “restlessness” there in the background? Is it what gets you up from the couch, doing something “productive” rather than rest? Is it what runs you around from rest to the refrigerator, to
I often hear parents say these things to their children about emotion: “You decide how you feel.” “You choose your reactions.” “What other people say has no meaning except the meaning you give it.”We can ask ourselves: Are these things we heard somewhere that seem helpful, or are they our direct experience? Do you–mom or
Today’s episode is taken from a recent guest speaker call with The Little School of Big Change graduate community with Violet Synergy. Violet talks about looking toward the mysteries in life (and how everything is a mystery, really), leaning into what’s arising and the most obvious thing we can do, meeting life from a place
This episode is an excerpt from a The Little School of Big Change 6-week course call that took place in March of 2023. I talk about how this–what’s being experienced right this very moment–is all there is. There is no better place to find or arrive at.What you’re looking for is so much closer than
Are you examining the nature of experience in order to see through the illusion of you as a separate, limited self? Are you trying to “smoke the veil” that has you feeling separate from life? I’ll talk about the ways we do that, plus share a couple stories of how my husband successfully “smoked the
A listener asks: “My family and work colleagues describe me as a ‘speedy’ person and many times I get asked to chill out or calm down. I try to calm myself but I’m still not getting to the root reason why I can’t seem to slow myself down! …I’m wondering if I am avoiding something
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