As we learn to trust the middle way, we find that everyone is right here with us. As notions of self and other drop away, we arrive home, belonging to the totality of all that is.
The Buddha teaches freedom as the heart/mind that no longer leans on anything at all. And he also teaches a path where we learn how to lean skilfully on things that lead onward towards letting go.
Returning to the wholeness of what we are - being intimate with the patterns of heart that we have rejected and have not yet been able to embrace, without being defined by them.
Martin uses this talk to examine the Buddhas description of Dharma practice as Going against the stream of Greed, Hatred and Delusion. He traces these forces in our contemporary lives in their personal, social and global dimensions, inviting us to reflect on how to make an appropriate response to the life in which we find ourselves.
