Dean Sluyter is an award-winning author who has taught meditation and awakening since 1970. Dean leads workshops, talks and retreats in this U.S. and beyond. His work has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and O Magazine.In this episode, Eric and Dean discuss his book, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction.
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In This Interview, Dean Sluyter and I Discuss…
- His book, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction
- Right View and how it relates to having less fear in your life
- How right view is always liberating
- Asking, “does it help?”
- “One mustn’t assume burdens that God doesn’t lay upon us. The state of worry is not itself meritorious.” CS Lewis
- The problem with trying to control your mind
- Transcendental Meditation
- Hanging out in tasklessness
- The open space of awareness
- How thought doesn’t have to go away in order to meditate
- Relax your grip, and relax back into yourself
- It doesn’t grip you, it has no power to do that. You grip it.
- What it means to relax at the moment of contact
- Relax into it, stop the resistance of it
- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
- suffering = pain x resistance
Dean Sluyter Links
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