Clinging to self-identifying experiences and feeling like they point back to “you” is fertile ground for suffering. Clinging always obstructs love, and a lot of love is freed up as we release the clenched fist of grasping.
Talks
May 19, 2022
| 51 min 7 sec
Love as the Default Position of the Mind
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew Brensilver
Residential Retreat 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.