Pascal Auclair

This is beautiful.

This meeting of these people tonight, we got together, we're having fun, to really enjoy it and be able to actually soak it, to be really nourished by beauty.

And when I teach meditation on retreat, I invite people to go do walking meditation outside.

And I say like,

You know, like, notice we're often in retreats, we're in beautiful nature, you know, countryside, and I invite people to actually notice beauty and see what the mind can do.

Sometimes I go, oh, I need to move to the country, and why did I, I don't come so often, I should come more often, and

And so this will kind of create turbulence in the mind.

But there's another way possible.

There's another way where there's a way to be kind of conscious about what's happening.

Oh, there's this experience of beauty now, of meaning, of richness, of preciousness.

Something precious is happening.

Let me actually be intimate with that.

Be there.

Instead of kind of projecting, anticipating it will end, just be there.

Be there.

And I think that one thing that really helps with this is the kind of, in a way, the bad news is that

I think it can be helpful if we know very, very deeply that all these things, all these pleasures at the different sense doors are by nature ephemeral.

It's their nature to come and go.

The more we know this, the less we will cling.

I want it to stay.