Talks March 31, 2023 | 45 min 30 sec

The Three Characteristics and Love

Matthew Brensilver

Some part of us desperately wants to control, and some part of us desperately wants to surrender—and we can't always side with one side. 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

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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