Pascal Auclair

We just view this as reality.

So that's a type of clinging.

We buy into, we adhere to this view.

At some point, we have a little bit of a shock, we could say, because something falls apart, a relationship, a situation, something starts to not be so, we give it less value, suddenly it changes.

It changes in some ways.

And so clinging to permanence, the view of permanence, the Buddha seems to say that's going to make things really painful.

When you know suddenly the aging starts to show in the face or health goes, you know.

And often we are in shock, you know.

We can't believe that this thing suddenly disappears, starting to crack open.

crumble you know and we're very shocked but we shouldn't be because it's in the nature of things to be so there's a lot of practice here to recognize that to let go of that of clinging adhering to that view

Another one is the view of satisfying.

That's very tricky.

The view of when we project on something, when we perceive in something, satisfaction, like complete satisfaction, where there's no nuance.

We don't think it can be slightly defective or unstable or changing, and we...

And we do this, you know, we'll be just on the internet and we'll see a little something somewhere and we'll, oh my God, I need to get that, you know, that's what Amazon lives on, you know, the fact that we'll project satisfaction.

And what's the actual experience?

You know, you actually get the thing the next day in the mail, you know, you open the box and you're like, oh, okay, oh, well, well, that might be useful, you know, but it's not what I...

what I projected, what I thought it was.

And so we can be awake to this.

We can be not so duped, not so fooled by that and learn by paying attention.