ISmile 86- Thoughts are Things

How exactly do we cut through delusion and have a direct experience of the Truth beyond name and form? We begin by studying our resistance so that we can uncover the source of delusion, then we practice letting it go. In this talk Michael points out how we can look at ALL things as aspects of mind, and then how we can deconstruct these aspects. All things, according to the Yogacarra School are temporary, interdependent, and Empty at their essence. Opening to this process consciously supports the Liberation of both self and other. Or as the Dzogchen master Tilopa says, we can begin to “cut through our clinging.” Questions deal with the perception of the “thingness of things”; the flow of life and its perceived speed and ultimate Stillness underneath all movement; and ego’s natural panic in the face of the reality of constant flow.