The Prison of the Person | The Sangha UK #49 | 5.12.22

The Sangha discuss the freedom that comes from understanding everything as completely empty and transient. #emptiness #transience #delusion

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00:00:00 Connecting the dots; sati; waking up enough

00:06:50 Taking the right effort as soon as we wake up to unwholesome thoughts

00:08:34 Everything is completely empty and transient; letting go of delusion; constricting reality to “I”, “me” and “mine”

00:15:19 Fear from the familiarity of dissatisfaction; the prison of the person

00:18:48 Clinging to patterns and habits; look and investigate; satisfaction is the absence of the person

00:23:53 Satisfaction is effortless; relaxation is the practice

00:32:44 Do your practice when you remember; take a break; work toys

00:41:18 Become interested in the experience of relaxation; dukkha-nirodha is spontaneous 

00:49:56 Dukkha-laden intentions; conscious and subconscious; experiential tension

01:10:49 We’re not creating an ontological paradigm