Arthur Brooks

The Maranasati meditation is for a couple of minutes in front of each one, you say, that is me. And that is me. Why? Because you are going to die. It is completely inevitable. And only when you make it the most familiar thing, your death, will you actually be alive. So the Maranasati meditation requires that you look straight into your death fear to make it completely ordinary.

The Maranasati meditation is for a couple of minutes in front of each one, you say, that is me. And that is me. Why? Because you are going to die. It is completely inevitable. And only when you make it the most familiar thing, your death, will you actually be alive. So the Maranasati meditation requires that you look straight into your death fear to make it completely ordinary.

See, the truth of the matter is I'm going to fail. I'm going to be forgotten. you're gonna become irrelevant. You're not gonna have content. And so only staring into the beast by looking at the pictures of the cadavers of your own content creation.

See, the truth of the matter is I'm going to fail. I'm going to be forgotten. you're gonna become irrelevant. You're not gonna have content. And so only staring into the beast by looking at the pictures of the cadavers of your own content creation.

See, the truth of the matter is I'm going to fail. I'm going to be forgotten. you're gonna become irrelevant. You're not gonna have content. And so only staring into the beast by looking at the pictures of the cadavers of your own content creation.

And so I actually ask my students to write a Maranasati meditation where each part is the nine-part meditation canonically in Theravada Buddhism, where each part is. So for example, it'll be, I'm gonna think for two minutes. So I'm gonna imagine, I'm not getting the grades at the Harvard Business School that I thought I was gonna get. I'm getting lower grades than my companions and friends.

And so I actually ask my students to write a Maranasati meditation where each part is the nine-part meditation canonically in Theravada Buddhism, where each part is. So for example, it'll be, I'm gonna think for two minutes. So I'm gonna imagine, I'm not getting the grades at the Harvard Business School that I thought I was gonna get. I'm getting lower grades than my companions and friends.

And so I actually ask my students to write a Maranasati meditation where each part is the nine-part meditation canonically in Theravada Buddhism, where each part is. So for example, it'll be, I'm gonna think for two minutes. So I'm gonna imagine, I'm not getting the grades at the Harvard Business School that I thought I was gonna get. I'm getting lower grades than my companions and friends.

Next is I'm starting to get alerts from the administration that I'm not measuring up. The next is I think I'm going to have to take a leave of absence. The next is I'm not getting job offers. You know, step six is usually I think my parents feel sorry for me. That's when people start to cry. Because that's what the death fear around the fear of failure feels like to people.

Next is I'm starting to get alerts from the administration that I'm not measuring up. The next is I think I'm going to have to take a leave of absence. The next is I'm not getting job offers. You know, step six is usually I think my parents feel sorry for me. That's when people start to cry. Because that's what the death fear around the fear of failure feels like to people.

Next is I'm starting to get alerts from the administration that I'm not measuring up. The next is I think I'm going to have to take a leave of absence. The next is I'm not getting job offers. You know, step six is usually I think my parents feel sorry for me. That's when people start to cry. Because that's what the death fear around the fear of failure feels like to people.

Everybody watching us, what is your death fear? That is the threat to the intrinsic you. And if you don't get your mind around it, you're going to spend your time and your effort and your energy trying to earn other people's love. So if you're, for example, if you're a success addict, when you get married, you're going to try to earn your wife's love.

Everybody watching us, what is your death fear? That is the threat to the intrinsic you. And if you don't get your mind around it, you're going to spend your time and your effort and your energy trying to earn other people's love. So if you're, for example, if you're a success addict, when you get married, you're going to try to earn your wife's love.

Everybody watching us, what is your death fear? That is the threat to the intrinsic you. And if you don't get your mind around it, you're going to spend your time and your effort and your energy trying to earn other people's love. So if you're, for example, if you're a success addict, when you get married, you're going to try to earn your wife's love.

And you're going to ruin your marriage earning your wife's love.

And you're going to ruin your marriage earning your wife's love.

And you're going to ruin your marriage earning your wife's love.

Because you'll never be enough. And then you'll go to work and try to earn her love. And you'll try to earn more money to earn her love. And that's what you'll do to try to feel alive and to actually not die. And you won't understand that you're starving her of what she really needs, which is you. This is how death fears can torque our entire lives. And so the practice of that is Go die.

Because you'll never be enough. And then you'll go to work and try to earn her love. And you'll try to earn more money to earn her love. And that's what you'll do to try to feel alive and to actually not die. And you won't understand that you're starving her of what she really needs, which is you. This is how death fears can torque our entire lives. And so the practice of that is Go die.

Because you'll never be enough. And then you'll go to work and try to earn her love. And you'll try to earn more money to earn her love. And that's what you'll do to try to feel alive and to actually not die. And you won't understand that you're starving her of what she really needs, which is you. This is how death fears can torque our entire lives. And so the practice of that is Go die.