Some part of us desperately wants to control, and some part of us desperately wants to surrender—and we can't always choose which side we're on. But what's left in the wake of letting go is very quiet, potent love. Hatred requires energy, clinging. Love asks only that we let go.
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher
Matthew Brensilver teaches at the Insight Retreat Center, Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and continues to be interested in the dialogue between Buddhism and science.