Most people get caught up in the appearance of things and attempt to get the world to conform to desires and expectations. Paul’s talk guides us through the alternative. Rather than entailing worldly action of any kind, it requires a head-on confrontation with our suffering. By fully accepting the way things really are, one can escape the wheel of samsara forever, through the elimination of ignorance and the realisation of the transcendental, which is described as “the ever-present knowledge that life is just a passing show.”
Paul Harris is the Spiritual Head and principal meditation teacher at the House of Inner Tranquillity.
This talk was given in September 2019
