How You See Yourself Is Always Changing | Let Go

Everything we experience, see, hear, touch, taste, and smell is impermanent - always changing. Our perceptions of how we interpret the world and see ourselves navigating the world are also always changing. This image of ourselves, that we take to be so real and solid is no more substantial than a soap bubble. In seeing this, we can let go of all these changing images and relax into the flow of change.

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So a couple of weeks ago we talked about this great treasure that humans have.

Our human life,

This experience,

Is this great treasure.

And that we don't experience this great treasure because we're so lost in our thoughts all the time,

Always thinking about me,

Me,

Me,

Me.

And last week we tried to give a little context,

A theory,

It's just a theory as to how this happened,

How the ego exploded in us.

And as a consequence of us living more in our ego and our thoughts,

Identifying more with the ego,

We feel this sense of separation,

Of being disconnected from the world,

From everyone else,

From ourselves.

We feel this sense of separation.

We feel as though everything's a little more permanent and solid.

And of course because of this we really feel this great sense of not belonging,

Like this is really such the existential crisis of our time,

The sense that we don't belong anymore,

Like we're not connected to the world,

To nature,

To ourselves.

And of course this view that comes out of the ego,

That we are separate,

That we are more independent,

That we are more permanent beings,

Is the exact opposite of reality.

That everything is interconnected,

Interdependent,

Impermanent,

Fluid,

Always moving.

That everything we see,

That everything we hear,

We touch,

We taste,

We smell,

Everything that we are perceiving in the world through our senses is arising through all these different parts,

All these different previous causes and conditions,

Coming together for something arising and then because it came together because of all these different causes and conditions,

Previous causes and conditions,

All these parts and then eventually as those conditions change,

Whatever it is we're perceiving,

Whatever it is we're seeing,

We're hearing,

We're touching,

We're tasting,

We're smelling,

Eventually fades away.

So that because everything in the universe,

Including us,

Is made up of parts,

Previous causes and conditions,

Therefore everything is impermanent.

And often we'll use the example,

Excuse me,

The example of a flower.

Like when we see a flower,

We know the flower didn't just appear as the flower.

The flower started as a seed that came from a previous cause and then because there was rainfall and because there was sunlight and because there was good nutrition in the soil and probably some worms and other microbes and other things in there because of all of those parts,

The flower starts out a little seedling and it comes into being and then the flower eventually fades and passes away,

Right?

Made up of parts,

Comes into being,

Passes away.

All of nature is like this.

We look at the trees,

We look at the plants,

Everything we can see,

It's arising and passing away.

Cities,

Right?

Cities,

Man-made cities come into being through many buildings starting to arise.

At a certain point there's so many buildings it becomes a city.

Buildings changing,

People coming and going,

Cars coming and going,

Things coming and going,

Right?

A city changing moment by moment by moment.

The planet changing moment by moment by moment.

The shorelines changing,

The mountains changing,

The topography,

Everything changing moment by moment by moment because it's made up of parts.

And we are changing moment by moment by moment.

We are made up of parts.

It's the sperm and the egg which had all their previous parts and all their previous conditions came together and the body grew through nutrition and food and sunlight and all of these conditions,

Right?

But we have,

If we look at our body,

Right?

Nails and hair and eyes and a mouth and teeth and a heart and lungs and legs and feet and all these different parts that make up a human.

And we know that we are impermanent too,

That we will eventually change.

We kind of know this.

We don't always know this but we kind of intellectually understand this.

So everything that is made up of parts of previous causes and conditions is impermanent.

And this is important for us to understand because so much of our dissatisfaction,

Of our unhappiness,

Of our irritation,

Of our frustration,

Of our disappointment comes from not seeing impermanence,

From not understanding impermanence.

So we see this in our relationships,

Right?

Our relationships are all impermanent,

Right?

Sometimes our relationships were a little bit closer with some people and then sometimes because of distance,

Maybe because someone's got a lot going on,

Both of us have a lot going on,

For whatever reason,

Different interests,

There's a little bit of space in the relationship and then maybe it comes back together again.

Like there's always,

No matter who the relationship was with,

Your parents,

Your siblings,

Your children,

Your friends,

Your romantic partner,

There's always change in the relationship.

It's always changing.

It's not always at level 10,

Right?

It's like,

Yeah,

Sometimes it's really good,

Sometimes there's just a little space,

There's just a little separation and that's okay.

That's okay because that is the nature of relationships.

It's made up of parts,

More than one thing,

Two people.

But we tend to panic every time we perceive something in our relationship like is a little bit off.

We're not seeing someone as much or we don't feel as connected to someone.

We feel like in some way we're not as close as we used to be and instead of just understanding the wisdom of impermanence,

Like yes,

All relationships are impermanent.

You know,

Sometimes we're closer,

Sometimes we're not.

That's okay.

Instead of having that equanimity that comes from understanding impermanence,

We go down the rabbit hole and wondering why,

Why is this happening?

What did I do wrong?

And we go back and we think about all our past conversations and how did I offend them and how can I get this back?

And we create all this dissatisfaction,

This unhappiness,

This suffering because of a relationship that's always changing.

And with all of our relationships,

Like at one point in every,

Sorry,

Always there's always one relationship where we're not as close.

If we think of all the relationships we have in our lives,

There's always going to be one where we're not as close.

And yet that's the one we focus on and think,

Oh,

There's a problem and it's like,

No,

It's just impermanent.

Sometimes we're a little closer,

Sometimes we're not.

And we can see it when we're having,

Like we're having a tough day,

Right?

We maybe didn't sleep so well the night before,

We're feeling a little bit down,

Our energy is a little bit off.

Instead of understanding the impermanence of our energy,

The impermanence of how we feel,

That it's always changing,

Right?

We make some story out of it.

We make some big fantasy about,

Oh my God,

This is a nightmare and my life sucks and what does this mean?

I'm never going to have energy again and I'm so bored or I'm so down.

We make this big story out of it instead of understanding,

Oh yeah,

The way I feel,

It's always changing.

It's always changing.

Sometimes I'm up,

Sometimes I'm down,

Sometimes my energy is high,

Sometimes it's low.

Sometimes you're just feeling a little bit sick,

Right?

It's normal to be sick.

But instead of understanding the impermanence of our body,

Of how we feel,

We dive down the rabbit hole and create some story about what's happening,

Resisting what's happening,

Imagining what's happening as permanent and solid and independent,

Not realizing that it's interdependent,

That this is what's arising in this moment.

Or with our jobs or our careers,

That maybe you're having a string of successes and you're getting some praise from your boss or from your industry and it's wonderful and you should enjoy that,

Like it's great,

You did a good job.

But we don't imagine that that should ever change,

That no,

No,

No,

I'm only going up,

I'm only going up.

There's never any little setbacks along the way.

This is what we imagine and so we panic when then we inevitably make a mistake or something,

A presentation doesn't come across as good as our last few,

Right?

Your boss is saying you're so great,

You're so good at this and then you kind of stumble or fall in some way and we panic and we go into this big story about oh,

It's over,

It's over,

That was all luck before.

This isn't real and it's like no,

It's impermanent.

Our jobs are,

You know,

The way we perform in our jobs,

The way we perform our careers,

Our business,

Like it's always changing but we don't see this,

We don't expect to come off of the highs,

We don't expect the down parts of life,

Of our job,

Of our day,

Of our body,

Of our relationships and so it's not that change or impermanence is what causes suffering.

The suffering comes from our ignorance of impermanence,

That we don't see impermanence because we live in our heads,

Because we're always perceiving our reality,

Imagining our reality through our thoughts,

Through our stories and we believe our perception of reality to be the true reality and yet our perceptions are made up of so many different parts,

So many different parts.

Every one of us,

So we all experience the world.

If you have all five senses,

If you can hear,

See,

Touch,

Taste,

Smell,

You have all your senses,

Right?

The sensory information comes in but then it goes through this filter and we all have this our own little unique filter and the filter is made up of our past memories and experiences,

So all the past memories and experiences that you've had,

Your views and opinions and beliefs that are always changing and your current mood is affecting this as well,

Right?

Just again,

Did you sleep well the night before?

Did you not sleep so well?

Are you feeling a little bit under the weather?

Are you just coming off of a stressful period or a period of disappointment or just coming off of a bunch of highs?

Like all of these things affecting our current mood.

So everything we are perceiving gets filtered through our own unique little filter,

Our own little set of parameters here.

All of these many many parts that are always changing and we're always believing whatever that perception of reality is over reality.

So if you,

Maybe you run into someone that you know and you haven't seen them for a while and when you go to see them and greet them,

You think to yourself,

Oh they didn't quite greet me as effusively as I thought they should have.

They didn't quite seem as excited or as happy to see me as I thought they should have or they didn't stay and chat as long or they didn't ask about this or but there's always something we kind of add this little layer on top of like what are they,

What were they thinking there?

What are they thinking about me?

Is something wrong in their relationship,

Right?

And instead of thinking,

Well,

Let's see,

I'm feeling a little bit down right now.

I'm feeling a little bit tired.

My energy is a little bit low.

So remember,

It's kind of getting filtered through that or even just have this tendency to second guess all my relationships.

I know that about this kind of,

That's one of the habits of my filter as well and instead of understanding that and then feeling a little bit down and all of those parts that are creating this perception of reality that's not true,

We believe the perception to be true and we get lost in this story for ages feeling really badly about ourselves because at the center of that story is a little me that's separate and independent and that is somehow getting something that it doesn't want,

Right?

It doesn't want the bad relationship.

It doesn't want to feel as though someone doesn't like us but this perception of reality simply came from all of these different parts,

Right?

Just arising and passing away,

Arising and passing away.

If someone,

You know,

Someone sends you a text and they don't respond right away and let's say you're feeling really good,

You're in a really good mood,

Everything's really good and you remember,

Oh yeah,

Such and such responded.

Let me check my phone.

I haven't responded.

Oh,

But you're feeling pretty good,

Right?

You're not really lost in your thoughts and so because of that,

Because you're feeling pretty good,

You don't get worked up into a story about it but then a little bit later as your energy starts to taper off and you've had to experience a few more little disappointments,

A few more little stressors in life,

Now your mind's going,

But no,

This is taking a little bit too long for them to respond.

What's going on?

What did I do wrong?

Because it's always,

What did I do wrong?

Oh,

I must have done something wrong.

I must have insulted them last time.

Did I warrant this badly,

Right?

And we get lost in our thoughts,

This story created because of our filter,

The story that we create,

The story of me that is somehow,

This me that's upset,

This me that's not getting what it wants,

This me that's so fragile and so feeble and so afraid,

Right?

That we create this image and we believe that image of ourselves to be real.

We believe our perceptions,

Right?

The image that's being created from our perceptions more than we believe our reality and it's why we walk around so much of the time,

So heavy,

Right?

Because we're carrying around all of the previous things that aren't happening now,

But we're still in our heads trying to figure out,

Oh,

What did that mean?

What about this over there?

What about that?

Or just even whatever is kind of happening,

But the way that we're exaggerating or commenting on what's happening,

Right?

The heaviness of it because it all feels so solid,

It all feels so permanent,

It feels so heavy,

Right?

And it is how we feel when we're down,

When we're lost in our thoughts,

When we're lost in the story of me and we feel so like,

Oh,

Just the weight of it all,

Like I just can't take it because we're focusing on what's not happening,

Excuse me,

We're focusing on the perception of reality instead of reality.

We don't let go what happened back there.

Oh,

It's a little disappointing.

Okay,

All right,

That happens.

We all experience disappointments throughout the day and instead of just allowing it to happen and knowing,

Oh yeah,

I have to get a certain amount of disappointments in the day,

That's a part of impermanence,

Right?

And letting it go and moving on,

You know,

We carry that disappointment with us and then we carry the text that wasn't responded to and then we carry the person that didn't greet us as positively as we thought and then we carry the,

I didn't get the praise from my boss this time and then we carry the and what's going on with this relationship and we don't realize how the filter is getting so filled up with all of these things that have already been happening and starting to distort and distort and distort even more our perception of reality until at the end of the day,

We feel so badly about ourselves,

About our lives and thinking,

Oh my god,

This is just such a nightmare until then the next day we wake up and it's like,

Oh,

Okay,

What was I worried about yesterday,

Right?

Because all of these perceptions of ourselves,

Right,

It's changing moment by moment moment.

The image that we have of ourselves is constantly changing.

I mean at eight o'clock to 802 to 805 to 807 to 815 to 830,

All these different images of how we see ourselves,

Right?

Like one moment,

I'm such a success,

I'm doing great and then a few minutes later,

A few hours later,

I'm such a failure,

Failure,

I'm such a loser,

Right?

One minute I love myself and then the next moment I hate myself,

Right?

The next moment everything's going my way,

The next moment,

No,

Nothing's going my way and it's all these just little images.

They're like,

They are no different than little soap bubbles,

Right?

Soap bubbles made of parts,

Right?

The soap which is made of parts,

The water made of parts,

The air made of parts,

The little plastic thing that we blow the soap bubbles,

All of these little images that we create of ourselves all day long through our perceptions that are all just made up of parts changing of the same nature and yet we are constantly believing the image of how we see ourselves over reality.

It is so compellingly real,

This perception of who we think we are over the reality of where we really are.

So it's just,

It's impermanent.

Everything that is made up of parts,

Our perceptions are made up of parts.

Our experience,

Our body,

The weather,

Everything is just made up of parts and just changing moment by moment by moment but we don't see it.

We think that everything is so solid,

So permanent,

So real and that's why we spend so much time suffering,

Not living in reality but instead living in our heads,

Believing our perceptions more than we're believing reality and it's why it's so important for us to be mindful,

To pay attention to what's going on in our experience and throughout the day,

Our breath,

The most beautiful,

Most precious thing,

Our breath,

To breathe more throughout the day,

To feel that constriction that's happening every time we go up into our thoughts,

Every time we start believing our perceptions.

There's a constriction that happens,

A tightening that happens and it just keeps building on and building on and building on and building on all day long instead of recognizing right by through mindfulness,

Paying attention to our experience,

Noticing that tightness,

Breathing into it,

Creating a little bit of space,

Grounding ourselves back.

Oh yeah,

There was just,

I was just getting a little lost or there was a little bit of a disappointment that just happened.

Okay,

Breathe,

Come back.

Okay,

It's gone.

Just a little thought bubble just coming up,

Just no different than a little soap bubble and it's gone and every time we do that,

To notice that through the lens of impermanence.

Ah,

A moment ago I was believing this unworthy image of me.

I felt like something was wrong.

I felt like I was wrong.

I felt like I didn't belong and then I breathed and I came back and I'm here again and it's like,

Man,

It was so compelling and we can often look back and think,

Well,

Why?

Why was I thinking that?

Well,

Maybe I was a little too busy today.

I was running around a little bit too much.

I didn't leave myself a lot of space in the day.

Maybe I was a little too engaged online or on the internet,

News,

Social media,

Things like that.

We know how that starts to shape,

You know,

Affect our filter,

Affect our mood.

And maybe I was just feeling a little bit tired.

It was just the middle of the day,

Two o'clock,

Right?

A lot of people get tired around two o'clock and that temptation when we're feeling tired to start going up into our perceptions and coloring our experience and believing our perception of reality instead of just,

I'm just feeling a little tired.

That's all.

That's all that's happening.

That's all.

But it's the tiredness that's coloring this.

And every time I breathe,

Come back,

I see,

Oh,

That image of me a moment ago,

It was no more solid or permanent or real than a little soap bubble.

It's gone.

It's gone.

No more real of the same nature.

And it's where we can bring in our self-compassion practice as well,

Right?

To notice again,

Being mindful,

Noticing the constriction,

Noticing this walking around with heaviness,

Right?

The holding on in the heaviness that we walk around with so much of the time,

That tension.

And maybe you are in a difficult situation.

Maybe you've been on hold with customer service for three hours.

You're stuck in a long line at the supermarket or you're in traffic or your boss,

Instead of praising you,

Gave you some criticism or something like,

Yeah,

Maybe because things do happen,

Of course,

Right?

And then bringing into those situations like being mindful first,

We have to recognize,

Ah,

I'm feeling a little down.

This is what's going on.

Ah,

Some self-compassion.

And we can bring some self-compassion and go,

Sweetheart,

That was really tough.

That really hurt.

Or,

Sweetheart,

This is really challenging waiting on hold.

Yeah.

Yeah,

It is.

It is tough.

But through self-compassion,

Bringing us into our experience,

Allowing us to be with it instead of getting lost in our perceptions of it.

And we know this with being on hold on customer service.

I feel so bad for the agents that are dealing with so many people that have their perception of being on hold for a couple of hours.

And yeah,

It can be on hold.

You can be doing other things at the same time,

Of course.

But we have this perception that this is such a nightmare.

I can't take this anymore.

This is so awful.

Why is this happening to me?

I mean,

It's happening to a million people in the world right now.

And then by the time we get someone,

We just,

We've lost our minds,

Right?

We get so angry at them.

We get so,

We're trying to ask someone to help while we're yelling at them.

They're not very likely to help us.

And all we've done is distort and exaggerate our perception of reality.

Instead of seeing through the lens of impermanence.

Yeah,

This is tough.

Yeah,

It sucks,

Right?

We all have,

We all have those moments in life,

Right?

We all have them.

It's a part of life.

And we can use self-compassion,

Talk ourselves down,

Or we can go up into our thought,

Up into the filter,

Push ourselves over the edge.

So remembering like our self-compassion practice,

Right?

So being more mindful of our experience and using all of the mindfulness tools that we have available to us.

And always really looking when we come back,

When we're back to go,

Wow,

That felt so real.

And to take a few moments really thinking about what were all the parts that were going into that to create that perception of reality that felt so real,

That little me that was so wounded,

Right?

Because it is interesting to take a look and go,

Yeah,

That and that and that and that and that and go,

And how is that any different than how a rainbow arises or how a soap bubble arises?

Made of parts,

Made of parts.

And yet I believe it every single time.

And it's important for us to keep looking at this through the lens of impermanence because we are a ride.

We're not on a ride.

We are the ride.

We have ups,

We have downs,

We go around,

Right?

Sometimes it's a little flat,

A little bit steady,

But then eventually it goes up and down again.

It goes all around,

All over the place.

This is the nature of our lives,

Right?

Never to stay the same,

Never to stay the same.

We have highs,

We have lows,

We have mundane moments,

Right?

This is the nature of having an experience.

It's the only way we can experience the world,

Right?

If we waited in line all day at a roller coaster to get on the ride and then we finally get there and we get in the seats and then the ride just kind of slowly just goes in a straight little line,

Nothing happening,

We'd all be complaining.

Say,

I want my money back.

I wanted a ride.

This isn't a ride.

This is boring,

Right?

Right?

This is how we go up,

We go down.

And when you're enjoying,

When you're having the highs,

Enjoy the highs,

Right?

Enjoy the praise,

Enjoy the success,

Enjoy the moments of closeness in your relationships,

Of the things that are working and that are going right.

We talked about last week with having,

You know,

Gratefulness,

Being grateful for all of those things.

Yay,

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you.

It's good.

The ride's in a good place right now.

Enjoy it.

And with gratitude,

There is an acknowledging,

But it won't last and that's okay,

Right?

We have gratitude for it.

There's a spaciousness with it.

Ah,

This is where the ride is now.

It's good.

Enjoy it.

And when the ride changes and things go a little south and something did happen,

We did get criticized maybe by our boss or we were disappointed about something,

Something did break,

Right?

And it's like,

Okay,

This is what's happening in the ride right now.

I can be here with this because it won't last.

Because it won't last,

Right?

Not letting our mind go out into the future with it.

How am I going to experience this in the future?

Just being with what's happening now.

This won't last.

This is what's happening.

This is what is arising right now.

This is the experience that's arising.

I don't have to push back on it.

It won't stay like this.

It will change and the more I can breathe and be with it and let it move through me instead of going up and just telling myself a story about it,

Changing my perception of reality,

The more easily I flow,

Right?

The more spaciousness I feel.

And then when the ride,

And let's be honest,

Most of the ride is a lot of mundane moments,

Right?

It is just kind of meandering along,

Not doing the big ups and downs,

But just kind of meandering along.

And it's in those moments where we're paying the bills,

We're doing the dishes,

We're cleaning up,

Doing the laundry,

Running errands,

All of those little things that are very much a part of life.

But where we tend to go up into our thoughts,

Changing our perception of reality,

Like we're just running errands,

But it's like,

Oh,

This sucks.

Why am I having to run errands?

Oh,

This isn't going right.

I need to get there faster.

Oh,

No,

They're in my way.

I mean,

All of this constant commenting on it that adds this constriction and this perception of reality that I'm not getting where I need to be.

Instead of,

I notice it,

I feel the tension rising and keep coming back.

Look around,

Hear the sounds,

Feel,

You know,

Your body,

Feel your body,

Smell any smells,

Taste if you're eating,

Right?

Have the experience of being with what is.

Because too much of the time,

Especially the mundane moments,

Which is so much a part of our lives,

Or just the moments that we perceive as boring.

I mean,

How much of the time,

Especially when life's really fast,

And we think I would give anything,

Anything to have nothing going on right now,

Just to be able to sit and do nothing.

And then we get those conditions.

And we layer this perception on out of boredom of,

Oh,

My life sucks.

This is so boring.

I don't know what to do.

And it's like,

You wanted those conditions.

That's what you said you wanted.

And then you get it.

And we don't know what to do with it.

And so even there,

Where we're a little bit bored,

There's not much going on,

Right?

Remembering through the wisdom of impermanence,

This isn't going to last.

I should enjoy this.

I should enjoy this nothing going on,

Because something is going to change at some point.

So let me enjoy this.

Let me just sit here and look at,

Look at the world outside.

Look at the trees flowing.

Look at the birds,

The butterflies.

Look at my dogs.

Look at how it's all arising and changing moment by moment this experience.

Using this time to practice,

To be wise,

To see how it's all just flowing and changing,

Fluid,

Just changing,

Changing,

Changing.

We can't keep fighting the ride.

I mean,

We fight it at every turn.

We fight,

We're basically fighting life,

Right?

It's a,

Impermanence is accepting that this is,

Everything is changing.

Appreciating that everything is changing because none of this would exist if everything wasn't changing.

We couldn't experience the world if everything wasn't changing.

But we've got to get out of our heads,

Out of our perception of reality to really see how impermanent these,

How impermanent our thoughts are,

How impermanent our feelings are,

How impermanent our emotions are,

And how impermanent this image of ourselves is.

It arises based on parts,

Previous causes and conditions.

It is no more substantial than a soap bubble.

To keep pulling ourselves out of it,

To breathe,

To see it,

Ah,

There,

As a soap bubble,

Just poof.

One minute it feels so real,

The next minute you're here,

Where did it go?

Where did it go?

It didn't exist.

It only arises through certain conditions,

Thoughts,

Thoughts about me,

Thoughts that get filtered through our filter,

Right?

They get created through our filter,

Always changing.

There is nothing to hold on to,

Nothing.

We are grasping at rainbows,

We are grasping at bubbles,

Believing it's who we are and the more that we understand the wisdom of impermanence,

The more that we understand the fluidity,

We are fluid.

Everything is fluid,

Changing,

Changing,

Changing,

As all these different conditions arise and changing and conditions arise and changing,

Just constantly coming into being,

Coming out of being.

And we recognize there really isn't anything to hold on to.

Let's enjoy the experience,

Whatever it is that's arising in that moment,

Whatever it is,

To just be with it,

Be with it.

If it's unpleasant,

Don't worry,

It'll pass.

If it's boring,

Don't worry,

It'll pass.

If it's good,

Appreciate it,

Have gratitude,

It will pass.

And really just be so mindful,

So careful when your energy is a little bit low,

When you're feeling a little bit stressed,

A little anxious,

A little bit down,

Tired,

To know that tendency to go up into our perceptions and to start to create stories around what's happening instead of recognizing,

Just a little bit tired.

It's not always going to be like this.

I don't need to create any perception of myself out of this.

I don't need to create any suffering out of this.

In fact,

I can just be a little kind to myself.

If I'm tired and I have the conditions and I'm able to,

Maybe I'll just take a little nap.

Maybe I'll just lie down for a few minutes,

You know,

Or maybe I'll go for a walk.

Okay,

Go for a walk.

But being very,

Very mindful of our tendency based on just our mood,

That one lever in the filter of just our mood,

Of how that can distort our whole perception of reality,

Losing track of impermanence in that moment.

So to keep coming back and to keep looking through the lens of impermanence,

So we can let go,

Enjoy the ride,

The ride that we are.

Let's enjoy all of it.

There is nothing to hold on to.

It's all just changing,

Fluid and changing.

Reviews

Thank you 🙏. Yes, I can see how we and our 'moments' are a collection of parts, all changing and how everthing is impermanent. So 'I' am changing, somes parts quicky, and some parts, like personality traits and parts of my 'nature', less quickly. So I can see my 'self' as impermanent and nowhere near as 'solid' as I might like to believe! 😅 I still struggle with the idea of no self however... but I find your talks so interesting and challenging. Thank you again. 🙏🐣🪷

Thank you. This is very helpful for me to hear and a good reminder to be kind to myself. Namaste 🙏

I'm not ON a ride; I AM the ride! Great shift as I observe my Be-ing through a different window pane.

Such an thought provoking talk of such great wisdom I will listen often when needed . 🫶🙏💞

Many thanks for your superb reflections 🌟 Have a lovely day 🍁

Thank you so much Meredith! The notion of impermanence cannot be better explained than in this talk ! 🙏❤️

Another great session! Thank you, Meredith!
Namaste 💕🙏🏼

Wonderful, thank you, really appreciate you making this available. I feel like I need to listen to your talks and your lives again and again as I hear an extra but I hadn’t noticed each time. Love this way of easing the suffering and becoming mindful 🙏🏻❤️