Pascal Auclair

But it's not mine.

This face is not exactly mine.

It will change.

It is actually day by day.

There's something natural about this body.

It will naturally change.

And so releasing some of the holding here, some of the equating or appropriating.

I have a little cabin in the woods where I go often.

It's by a lake and it's a little piece of land just a few hundred feet this way and that way by the lake.

It's my cabin, it's my land, and it's not.

A tree can fall on my little cabin.

It can burn.

At some point, something might happen that I'll have to sell it.

Things can happen.

And so it's not absolutely mine.

It's relatively mine.

um and and that is i think what the buddha is talking about how am i doing yes so true so right exactly the paradox the kind of two level you could think conventional reality and ultimate reality like it's not

ultimately mine so we're just bringing a little nuance in you know we're like hey honey pie be careful because if you totally buy into totally you're gonna suffer so it's good to bring a little wisdom here it's not totally yours you know and and this with the body and physical things and also with the rest so i teach meditation i see this all the time this gradual letting go i it's it's not even it's to me it's like a regular thing that i see all the time and i

You know, what happens is, and see if you recognize this, but we start meditating, we go to a first class meditation class or something like this, and it seems like everything is referring back to me.

It's my breath, my body, my posture, my mind is agitated, and why is my mind like this?