5 Ways To Get Over Yourself | Pascal Auclair
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Understanding the Buddhist concept of "the five aggregates."
Pascal Auclair has been immersed in the study and practice of Buddhist teachings since 1997. He has participated in retreats in Asia and America with renowned masters from both monastic and secular backgrounds. Pascal completed four years of teacher training with Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. Pascal teaches mainly in North America and Europe. He is one of the founding members of True North Insight, where he teaches and acts as a mentor.
In this episode we talk about:
- How the five aggregates got Auclair hooked on Buddhist practice and philosophy
- The five aggregates as a way to work with difficulty
- Living with the non-negotiable prospect of dying
- Paying attention to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feeling tone
- Meditation training as a way to understand that experiences are conditional
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how we doing? The phrase get over yourself is often used in a flippant way, |
| 0:25.9 | but I think it's actually speaking to a pretty deep human need to get out of our heads, to get off our own backs, |
| 0:31.7 | to get out of our own way, to be blown away. In fact, the Greek word for ecstasy translates to standing outside of oneself. |
| 0:40.7 | At a fundamental level, this is what Buddhism is all about, seeing through the illusion of the |
| 0:45.8 | self. The self is the source of so much of our suffering. We spend so much time building it up |
| 0:50.3 | and defending it when in the end there's really nothing there or at least not as much as we might think. |
| 0:56.1 | To be clear, and a lot of people get confused about this. In Buddhism, we're not saying that you |
| 1:00.4 | don't exist. I mean, obviously you look in the mirror, you'll see yourself. It's just that if you can |
| 1:04.4 | learn to take your thoughts and your emotions less personally, you will be less owned by them. |
| 1:08.8 | You can lighten up. So many Buddhist practices are designed to help you unlock this source of self-centered suffering. And today we're going to talk about a foundational Buddhist list that can help you get there. It's called the five aggregates. And I won't go into great detail or any detail really right now about the aggregates |
| 1:28.0 | because our guest who's a true Dharma nerd is going to hold forth with some great eloquence. |
| 1:33.2 | Pascal O'Clair has been immersed in Buddhist practice and study since 1997. |
| 1:37.5 | He now teaches retreats all over North America and he's the co-founder of True North Insight |
| 1:41.9 | and one of TNI's guiding teachers. |
| 1:45.1 | I had never met Pascal before this, but I found him to be utterly delightful. |
| 1:49.7 | Just to say this episode is part of our end of the year, Deep Cuts series, |
| 1:53.3 | where we dip into the archives to find some of our best episodes |
| 1:56.8 | that we think can most effectively address any holiday stress or madness you may be feeling. |
| 2:04.0 | Before we dive in, just to say we've got some exciting things happening in the 10% happier |
| 2:09.3 | universe, we are now offering bespoke guided meditations to go with every podcast episode. |
| 2:16.9 | Those meditations will be guided by a teacher of the month, |
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