Hello and in today's welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life

I'm your host Cori Maccarra and in today's episode we're going to talk about what do you need to let go of.

More to come on what that means in a moment, but first let's settle in with the sound of the med So in nearly all of the meditation traditions, the root cause of suffering is described as attachment,

and holding on to the way we want things to be,

holding on to the way a moment was,

our ideas, our beliefs, even our sense of self.

And the reason this is considered the root of suffering

is because we're essentially holding on to something that we can't actually hold on to.

All of these experiences, internal and external, are impermanent.

It doesn't always appear that way and a motion might appear like it lasts for a long time

or someone in our life may appear like they're here for a long time,

but if you look at everything on a micro level,

it's shifting and morphing moment by moment by moment.

There's no thought that comes up in the mind and just stays in the mind in that way

permanently. It's shifting. It's in the same way weather patterns are shifting. Same with an emotion,

it's ebbing and flowing, it intensifies, it relaxes,

pain, sensations in the body.

Our sense of self is always adjusting and adapting and evolving as we age, but even throughout the day.

We're taking in new information, integrating it, parts of us are dying, and new parts are being

born.

And if we look around us, our worlds, our communities are constantly changing.

There's no one experience or set of moments

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