“Cultivating an Attitude of Non-Entanglement” with Benjamin this Sunday at Minneapolis Insight

Dear Community,

Sunday 10am Community Practice & Discussion

This Sunday Benjamin will lead a practice and exploration of “Cultivating an Attitude of Non-Entanglement,” based on Ajahn Amaro’s writing in his book Mind is What Matters (freely available here). Below is an excerpt (pages 43 - 45):

… [T]his is the essence of insight meditation – training the heart to embody the quality of awareness, to be able to receive and to know the flow of perceptions – pleasant or painful, interesting or boring, familiar or unfamiliar. Whether we call an experience a sight, a sound, a thought, or a feeling, the heart abides and embodies that quality of awakened knowing; the different patterns of experience arise and pass away within that knowing.

So, in a sense, the essence of insight meditation is cultivating an attitude of non-entanglement. It is not a rejection of the world; instead, it is a letting go of identifying or grasping or entangling with the world.

… The process of meditation is not about acquiring something that we don’t yet have, or becoming something that we aren’t already. Rather, meditation is taking advantage of the capacity of the mind to awaken, to disentangle and cease identifying with what we are not, to stop looking for satisfaction in what cannot satisfy, to stop wishing for finality in that which is endless, to stop seeking security in the inherently insecure. In that stopping there is the realization of the ultimately precious jewel of the ever-present Dhamma.

All are welcome to join this exploration on Sunday! Registration and Zoom information available here.

With mettā,
Minneapolis Insight