Dolls, loss, love and the narrative cure. Kafka consoles a girl with a series of letters about a lost doll. An excursion into four different and indispensable tasks for any contemplative practitioner:
(i) Calming & stabilzing
(ii) Dis-identification and decentering
(iii) Deep Inquiry and thorough contemplative Investigation
(iv) The bigger Picture – gaining an universal perspective on the personal
Every moment of experience arrives simple and bare, but the mind rarely leaves it that way. This talk explores SN 35.95, the Māluṅkyaputta Sutta, and Māluṅkyaputta's insight that suffering is not in what we experience, but in what we add to it.
