Mindfulness: A Mode of Attention to Experience

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Buddhism is very explicit about erasing, eradicating or at least diminishing of suffering. Mindfulness is a mode of attention to experience which simplifies to a certain level. What happens when I reject experience, I don't like it, I want to push it away? That's called aversion. There is aversion in the way of looking. So I can view meditation, this phenomenological approach, I have appearances and what I'm going to do in my meditation is play with different ways of looking at experience," he says.

In this conversation with meditation teacher and author Rob Burbea we discuss the role of fantasy in meditation, the purpose of what Rob calls the 'Soulmaking Dharma' and some common traps that can obstruct our connection with beauty on the contemplative path. This was the first conversation I had with Rob (there are two more you can listen to in the Emerge podcast stream). For various reasons I decided not to release it immediately after we recorded it, feeling that the subsequent conversations did a better job of communicating what I wanted to communicate. There were also some nasty recording problems that made it difficult at times for the conversation to be fluid and flowing. In any case this is a lovely coversation and I hope you enjoy! 🙏