Talks May 19, 2022 | 51 min 7 sec

Love as the Default Position of the Mind

Matthew Brensilver

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.


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.

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