Announcing the NEXT book in the Everyday Buddhism Book Club - Beginning on March 4, 2024.
June 21, 2018

Everyday Buddhism 3 - The Slippery Self

Everyday Buddhism 3 - The Slippery Self

Loosening Your Identification with Troublesome Concepts of "Self"

In this podcast, we'll look at the Buddhist concept of "No-Self", or Anatta, I introduced in episode 2. Where is your "self"? Is it something you can describe? It's hard to describe or identify as a discrete and non-changing thing, yet we sometimes cling to ideas of self that cause us to be stuck and miserable in life.

Do you wear an internal label that "brands" you forever in your own mind, your own sense of identity? Are you trapped wearing the label of chronically ill? Victim? Old and useless? What if you could see life outside the shadow of that label?

What if you could catch a glimpse of life happening without that "you" getting in the way? In this episode, I offer 3 short mindfulness exercises that will allow you to slip away from yourself for a few minutes and feel how peaceful it is!