An Episode for Overthinkers | Tuere Sala

About this episode

<p><em>New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.</em></p> <p><em>---</em></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Thoughts are not your enemy in meditation. If you're getting distracted while you meditate, that's not necessarily a problem. Thoughts are natural. They're always going to come. The point is not to clear the mind and to magically eradicate all thinking, the point is to have a different relationship to your thoughts. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>When we're not mindful of our thoughts, they march into the room, tell us what to do, and we act them out, reflexively, habitually and automatically— like puppets on a string. Our guest today, Dharma teacher Tuere Sala, is going to talk about how to cut the strings of what can often be a malevolent puppeteer.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Sala is a Guiding Teacher at <a href= "https://seattleinsight.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">Seattle Insight Meditation Society</a> and <a href= "https://www.spiritrock.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">Spirit Rock Retreat Center</a>. She's a former prosecutor who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 30 years and is especially focused on bringing the dharma to nontraditional places. She is a strong advocate for practitioners living with high stress, past trauma and difficulties sitting still. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>In this episode we talk about: </p> <ul> <li>Why we get caught in our thinking</li> <li>Understanding that our thoughts are not who we are</li> <li>How to direct our attention away from negative thoughts</li> <li>How the idea of permanency causes suffering</li> <li>Using thinking itself as the object of our meditation</li> <li>Noticing mind states</li> <li>Relative reality vs. ultimate reality</li> <li>The eight states of mind and their felt sense in the body</li> <li>And Sala's definition of true liberation</li> </ul> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>Full Shownotes:</strong> <a href= "https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/tuere-sala-510" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/tuere-sala-510</a></p>