"Look Closely: It May Not Be What You Think" with Jean Haley this Sunday at Minneapolis Insight In

Dear Community,

Sunday 10am Community Practice & Discussion

From Jean: Lately I have been reading Rob Burbea’s book Seeing That Frees. One of the things I appreciate about the book is the invitation to see for ourselves what leads to freedom and what keeps us caught. What works for one person may not work for another.

What matters is not the method, but our willingness to be curious and to look, and look again, at what causes our suffering. As we do so, we develop insight or “an understanding that brings…a dissolution of, or decrease in, dukkha.”

“Rather than being based upon the faith in the experience of another, or upon blind beliefs – even ‘Buddhist’ beliefs – about how things are, insight, as we are defining it, is based primarily on personal experience of what decreases dukkha. When there is insight, the seeing melts dukkha; and that release of dukkha we can feel and know for ourselves.

It is healing and freedom that are important here. In our lives and our practices, can we be free enough to question and to experiment with different ways of looking? What might we learn through this? What might be healed? What might be liberated?

Please join us this Sunday to explore these questions together. All are welcome! Registration and Zoom information available here.

With metta (loving-kindness),
Minneapolis Insight