Understanding that the saṅkhāra (conditioned and conditioning, fabricated and fabricating) quality of experience is an invitation to engage with the way life is appearing in skilful ways for awakening.

Exploring wisdom ways of looking to bring insight into our practice, where paying attention is the key. Seeing the inconstancy in all things opens the possibility for greater sensitivity. Seeing the rating of all things by the enjoyment or distress they might offer as just an opinion, rather than fact, opens the possibility of more ease and delight.

Noticing change, and the attribution of hedonic categories to appearances, to open the possibility of possibilities: to ease, to let go, and to relax, opening up, and awaken.

Saṅkhāra points out that in every moment of life there is a phenomena in attention and atmosphere of attention that is shaping it. This happens on a retreat and in the whole of our life. Is our meditation practice of deep listening and skilful cultivation only useful on the ‘cushion’ or is it a tool for awakening in very moment of life?