Talk: Facing Difficult Family Dynamics As Spiritual Practice

"If you think you are so enlightened, go and spend a week with your parents."

In this talk, I want to share with you an insight that came to me a few years ago. Having sometimes some difficulties with my family, I wanted to find a way to be able to embody more qualities that I find important.

And I realized that if I were to start approaching seeing my family as a kind of spiritual practice, this could actually break the habitual mind and its habitual reactivity, and instead open me up to be able to embody qualities of mindfulness, dignity, and presence.

I hope by sharing this track, based on anecdotes from my own life, you can also extract some benefit from this insight.

image: Arthur Poulin
music: Scott Buckley & freesound_community