Pascal Auclair

It keeps commenting all the time.

While I'm meditating, you know, it's not so personal anymore.

And, you know, joy appears and more ease appears, you know, and less guilt, less shame, less anxiety disappears.

The selfing, you know, this activity of owning, appropriating, leads to all these things.

Guilt, arrogance, shame, greed, hatred.

This is, you know, it leads to obsession.

That's a direct path to obsession.

And I'm so happy these teachings are there and these invitations to go question this because, yeah, we're in a world now of like self-promotion, self-made, I'm self-made and...

you know everything i can say like this is all me saying this yeah it's all me pascal saying this but thank you joseph thank you dance podcast and thank you thank you you know you know like i'm totally related to all the people who have taught me like i'm not separate in this way um

Yeah, so interconnection, less separation in that view that we can discover for ourselves.

Practice.

So meditation for me is the field of research.

It's a very particular field in a way it's protected environment, you know.

where I can actually go more minute and see what's happening in the mind and the body and see how this clinging happens, how this definition of self happens.

So that's in the field of practice.

And I'll give you an example just to highlight this before we go to the rubber that hits the road.

I heard your question.

But the other day, I think it's a good example of this.

Maybe, we'll see.

I was teaching in a retreat, you know, and it was the lunchtime break and I'm lying on the bed and I'm resting my hands on the... So I'm laying down on the bed and my hands are resting like this.