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Andrew continues a series of talks on the Buddha's teachings of the 3 Marks of Existence. How often do we suffer over the story the mind tells about ourselves? The endless comparisons, expectations, and negative self-talk. What if the Buddha told you that all of those stories are simply just thoughts? At first that may feel condescending, but once you sit in meditation and start taking the mind less personally, we can find so much freedom from its unhelpful stories and comments. Enjoy!

This is a continuation of a series of talks on the topic of "The 3 Marks of Existence". These are the essence of the Buddha's teachings: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self. Andrew kicks it off by talking about how we can notice impermanence on every scale of our lives: macro (birth, aging, illness, and death), mezzo (changing events and experiences in our lives), and micro (moment to moment changes in our sensory experience and mind). In particular, Andrew highlights how the Buddha teaches that sitting with the micro level of our experience helps us to acclimate to impermanence in a more internalized way. How meditation truly teaches us peace and equanimity with change. Enjoy!

Andrew Chapman begins a series of talks on the 3 marks of existence, which are the 3 core insights realized through the Buddha's teachings and the practice of vipassana (insight meditation). The 3 marks are: Anicca, Dukkha, and Anatta, which roughly translate to mean: impermanent, imperfect, and impersonal. We're very excited for this series and hope you enjoy!

Listen and explore:

• Why posture is so important in meditation (but rarely taught)
• Meditation as a direct path to embodiment and remembering our True Nature
• Channeling the force of gravity vs. fighting it
• The three foundational elements of of any sitting practice
• A simple exercise you can do at home to start experiencing the Buddha's insight of Anicca
• The "shimmer" and the "Great Wide Open"
• Why things often are most difficult right before we let them go
• Where western meditation practices seem to be straying from the path
• The underlying truths meditation and psychedelics seem are both pointing to
• A common stage in meditation that is often mistaken as a regression
• Meditation as a posture for life

Mentioned on this episode:

• The Posture of Meditation by Will Johnson
• Will Johnson's website: https://www.embodiment.net/
• Ida Rolf and Rolfing
• Vipassana meditation retreats
• FAR OUT #21 ~ 100 Hours of Meditation in 10 Days: Our Experiences and What We've Learned
• Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte

Connect with us:

• Website: www.thefarout.life 
• Email us at info@thefarout.life
• On Instagram: @thefaroutcouple
• Julie-Roxane on Instagram: @julieroxane
• Alasdair @ www.alasdairplambeck.com

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Credits:

• Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
• Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

Don Givens speaks on the topic of Impermanence. This is the fundamental principle behind the Buddha's teachings: that everything changes. Our practice is aimed at embracing change as a way to reduce suffering in our lives. Enjoy!

Listen and explore:

• Why posture is so important in meditation (but rarely taught)
• Meditation as a direct path to embodiment and remembering our True Nature
• Channeling the force of gravity vs. fighting it
• The three foundational elements of of any sitting practice
• A simple exercise you can do at home to start experiencing the Buddha's insight of Anicca
• The "shimmer" and the "Great Wide Open"
• Why things often are most difficult right before we let them go
• Where western meditation practices seem to be straying from the path
• The underlying truths meditation and psychedelics seem are both pointing to
• A common stage in meditation that is often mistaken as a regression
• Meditation as a posture for life

Mentioned on this episode:

• The Posture of Meditation by Will Johnson
• Will Johnson's website: https://www.embodiment.net/
• Ida Rolf and Rolfing
• Vipassana meditation retreats
• FAR OUT #21 ~ 100 Hours of Meditation in 10 Days: Our Experiences and What We've Learned
• Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte

Connect with us:

• Website: www.thefarout.life 
• Email us at info@thefarout.life
• On Instagram: @thefaroutcouple
• Julie-Roxane on Instagram: @julieroxane
• Alasdair @ www.alasdairplambeck.com

Support this podcast:

• Become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/thefaroutcouple
• Leave a review on iTunes!
• Share this episode with a friend! :D

Credits:

• Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
• Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

In this episode, Andrew provides and overview of the Buddhist View and Practice of Equanimity. How can we learn to come to terms with things the way that they are, rather than how we want them to be? Mindfulness help us to make space for the dis-ease of our lives by resting in compassionate awareness and helps us to make space for the joy in our lives by resting in non-attached appreciation. Enjoy!

In this episode, Andrew provides an overview of the eightfold path. He discusses the Buddhist path as a training in happiness. From a Buddhist perspective, happiness is a collection of good habits - wise view, wise intention, wise speech, wise action, wise livelihood, wise effort, wise mindfulness, and wise concentration.

Why do we practice meditation? In the Western world, meditation is often packaged as a catalyst for developing more focus and relaxation; however, in the Buddhist context, meditation is practiced for the purpose of developing liberating insight into 3 fundamental characteristics of human existence. Andrew discusses these 3 marks of existence in this week's talk.