Pascal Auclair

I'm going to lose sleep.

I'm going to lose appetite.

I'm going to lose hope.

I'm going to lose vision.

I'm going to get depleted in all kinds of ways.

And this might be another way to hold these views with care.

with clarity.

I find inspiration in the Buddha.

The Buddha had a lot of views.

He spent 45 years sharing his views about stuff, you know, but he was not clinging to them.

He was not getting upset about them.

And so the way to work with this, I think, is to actually notice, oh, Pascal, my love, you're getting all worked up about this.

You're really very, very engaged with this.

Is there a way to maybe come back to the body, to feel the body breathing here, to maybe notice something else?

Notice what's happening around, there's space around, there's things around, and do a little bit of a titration, instead of a fixation, to relax a bit.

And to me, one of the ways I'll think about this is to think, is this, the way I hold this, is this leading me to freedom?

Is this leading me to ease?

Is this leading me to engage?

Or is this making me all worked up so that I'll be depleted later?

So to actually take note of the mind state, the way I'm relating to this,