Coming Home with Alexis Santos

In this episode, Axel speaks with Alexis Santos about the experience of coming home and how to live a more present life.

Alexis is a meditation teacher who leads retreats internationally. He has been a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya and spent several years training as a Buddhist monk under his guidance. Alexis also completed the four-year teacher training program through the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock. His teachings emphasize knowing the mind through a natural and relaxed continuity of awareness.

We talk about:

• The difference between natural and focused awareness
• What Alexis has learned from Sayadaw U Tejaniya
• The feeling of coming home
• The fruits of being kind to others
• Common misunderstandings on the path
• The habits of the mind
• Skillful and unskillful actions
• The superpower of saying sorry
• How we can help others let go
• Wise understanding and wise attitude
• Worldly and unworldly joy
• Why Alexis and Axel practise

Alexis ends our conversation by guiding a meditation on returning home.

For more information about Alexis, visit alexissantos.io.

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