The Peace Of Not Clinging

With Shaila, we practice becoming unattached to both pleasant and unpleasant feelings, releasing all clinging connected with sensual desire or aversion. To cultivate non-clinging, first notice the experience of clinging, perhaps by observing physical tightness, mental contraction, or a sense of separation. As you become mindful of the changing nature of experiences, allow yourself to deeply accept this fact of impermanence. Allow experiences to arise and be known, then to also let them end.

Reviews

Excellent talk/teaching and delivery as well. Thank you so much 🙏☸️

This isn’t so much a guided meditation as it is a talk with a practice toward the end. BUT the talk and the silences and the journal question afterward raised some valuable insight into my own tendency to cling to my own sense of self importance, that I have wisdom and knowledge that others need. I do, I suppose, but I spend waaaay too much time lost in scenarios in which I am imparting that wisdom and knowledge. I decided to name that aspect of myself “the Great and Venerable Mrs. F” (my last name begins with F and I was a teacher for 30 years). I realized as I was listening that Beginner’s Mind is far more enjoyable, curiosity is way more pleasant than knowing and struggling so often (in my mind) to find just the right words to save so-and-so from their own ignorance. How cringey I realize the Great and Venerable Mrs. F is! I have to chuckle when I name her.

Thanks for the talk! It was just what I needed to hear today.

An excellent contemplation on how clinging creates suffering. Indeed, it is ok for all things to end. Thank you so much.

Hearing instructions from a meditation expert in highly reputed approach of Pa Auk Sayadaw is a previlege indeed. Articulate, methodical, systematic, well-thought-out approach is very much evident in her guided meditation. I have never heard a meditation teacher who provokes your thoughts towards meditations with a few questions followed by a pause – to let give a few moments for the meditator to dive deeper in the mediation.

I feel this audio is a milestone for the art of delivering guided meditations packing a lot of innovations worth seeing henceforth in the structure of any guided meditation.

A beautiful, helpful, liberating meditation. “It’s okay that things end”