Pascal Auclair

And it seems like not clinging brings freedom.

And so what I hear in that is that the freedom lies, the absence of freedom or the freedom lies into some mental activity.

That is amazing to think of.

It's something that happens inside of me.

It's not something outside.

If it's something outside, I'm in deep trouble because it's the outside world that will define if I'll be free or not.

And in these teachings, it says, no, it's an internal event and there's something to do about it.

And in that particular aspect here, it's that equating something to be...

So something is happening, and I make it mine.

I make it me.

I make it in me.

I view it as inside of me, or I'm inside it.

And in any of these views, if we made them too solid, not relative, relatively mine, if we make them absolute, we're going to suffer.

So for example, the body.

Let's just take this, the body.

So the body, if I make mine, me, it's me, right away there's going to be, I think, fear of death.

Because if this is my body, what's going to happen to it at the time of death?

And in spiritual practice or meditative practice or kind of the inquiry we're doing here, we're actually questioning this.

And I feel that we're, in a way, we're just bringing back a little sanity here.

It's not that far out.