Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I can’t emphasize this enough. Usually that’s how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.

do something about it – stop it perhaps, or fabricate something else that doesn’t bring so much dukkha.

we chase after things that will not bring lasting fulfilment.

sometimes the mind won’t settle down until the energies have been opened and unblocked through some letting go.

If insight is what frees, then sustaining any insightful way of looking will free, to some extent, in that moment.

It is quite possible to experience sadness as a continuous emotion, but only if the mind has a chance, through lack of intimate attention, to join the dots, to stitch the moments together without us realizing.

With the object appearing then bigger and more solid, and the experience of contraction being painful to some degree, the mind without insight in that moment will usually react unskilfully.

This sense can often be neglected, especially if we are not accustomed to having faith in ourselves in this way.

any particular assumption or view is contributing to easing dukkha, or actually fuelling it.

For as much as it is a fabricator of perception, a citta state is also itself an object of perception. Or rather it is a conglomeration of perceptions – those perceived as internal (for example, the perceptions of heat, calmness, agitation, or pleasure in the body and mind), and those perceived as external. In fact, just like a jhāna, any citta sta