Dan Harris

It might be good for a minute or two, but it's not really an abiding strategy.

One portal into some deeper way of being alive is to

kind of let it in.

So if we start from that idea, it's a natural progression.

I think you're saying to, all right, how do we practice this?

Well, let's conjure the thing that most of us are most afraid of, the most difficult aspect of being alive, which is the terrifying mystery of death.

And let's see if we can't make it as vivid as possible in our mind through this guided practice or through this, you know, practice that we guide ourselves through.

So that we can maybe achieve a degree of equanimity with this inevitability.

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of like the way I understand or operationalize what I think you're saying is in light of death, the shit I'm worried about

isn't that deep then the trick is to keep death top of mind so that we can keep our problems in perspective one way that i find helpful and it's i really like the exercise you're describing but one way i a perhaps additional way for people is the buddha's five daily remembrances once in the morning once at night i really have been able to get into the habit of just recalling

This body is of the nature to grow old, get sick, die.

I'm going to someday lose everything and everybody I hold dear.

As a result, the only real possessions I have are my actions.

And just doing that twice a day, I mean, it doesn't mean I never get carried away by bullshit, but I think I'm less likely to because death is closer.

It just has more salience for me than it used to.

Coming up, Rosa talks about some more aspects of experience, such as why falling in love with your experience of being alive can actually deepen your practice.

The fourth aspect of experience that you're suggesting we unlock en route to presence is, and these are your words, falling in love with experience.

Say more, please.

I mean, I don't think anybody's going to argue with this.

This one sounds good.