Pascal Auclair

We can learn that

Things are not exactly as we project, what we project on them.

And it made me laugh because I was listening to somebody saying, you know, when I return an article that I bought online, you know, and they say like, sometimes, I don't know if they still do, but why are you returning this?

They're like, well, you know, I was drunk last night, feeling lonely at home, you know.

trying to solve my problem you know and yeah now i'm not so drunk anymore and you know and i can see it's not that satisfying you know and so and it seems like a bad news you know i'm saying things are unsatisfactory you know and it would be good to see this for for what it is you know it seems like bad news but actually when you're free from that kind of uh

allure that you tend to put on things, you know, and that, you know, a lot of corporate stuff is trying to, you know, to have us buy into the idea of satisfaction with things, you know.

When we're freed from this, it feels so good.

There's so much joy that we have access to.

There's so much freedom.

So when I say things can't satisfy us completely, relationship can't, come on, let's be honest, you know.

And, you know, in any situation, and career can't, and, you know, and you see people, you know, some of the richest people in the world, you know, they look miserable, you know.

They got everything they want, but they still, you know, they're not happy.

And so we can be aware of this and not cling to the idea of satisfaction and in this way gain happiness.

into joy and peace and inner freedom.

It's a lot of good news in there.

Yeah, with every one of these ways of clinging, I would like to suggest that becoming aware of how we're holding, how we're holding pleasure, how we're holding displeasure, how we're meeting or holding a view can be really helpful.

So to know that...

I might have views about what's happening in the world, about different conflicts that are happening in the world or things that I care a lot about for my society, injustice and this.

And I can get all worked up.

If I cling to these things in an obsessive way,