The word "intimate" means "to make known". What do we wish to make known, to make real and alive? What does it mean to be intimate with oneself and life? The talk touches on the importance of making a turn towards the retreat: to value simplicity, silence, being and and attitude of loving care.
How do we live authentically in relationship with each other? How do we work with the unsatisfactoriness of falling into the same kinds of conversations again and again? Learning to be organs of perception rather than organs of repetition.
Seeing the process of spinning a separate self into existence and how the power of clear seeing allows this to deconstruct, so that we can come back into the stream of dharma.
Exploring how we compartmentalise things, people and experiences into good and bad, and get trapped in a solid self structure. How to free ourselves of this entrapment.
We tend to lean into extremes. How do we find the middle way, again and again? What is it like to tolerate living as the unvarnished living present where the two worlds meet? How to discriminate the greed in the mind from the hearts desire for liberation and truth.
