Pascal Auclair

You know, it's like we want to keep.

We don't want to lose.

We want more of.

We start kind of, don't touch this.

This is mine now.

I want to keep.

We start to fear.

Will I lose this?

Will I be able to maintain this?

And so this is the kind of thing that happened that makes it...

difficult for human beings to experience pleasure because then we start to project anticipate and fear and get anxious this is so weird now you would think we could just appreciate stuff but i don't know do you recognize something in there for yourself

Yeah, yeah.

And you're so right to say like the problem is not the fact that things are pleasurable or can be or sometimes are.

It's really what we're and the list here looks at clinging.

So that's what I find beautiful about this teaching is that it's asking us like, is there another way?

to relate to this?

Is there another way than clinging?

And that's what we call maybe practice, meditative practice or mindfulness is that by encountering pleasure and becoming aware of our relationship to it, we can learn to react differently, to respond differently to what is pleasurable and maybe learn to relax

and feel and recognize, wow, this is good.

This feels good.