Returning to Nature through Wuwei: Simplifying, Sensitizing, & Surrendering | Jason Bartlett Q&A
About this episode
The episode discusses returning to nature through the Buddhist practice of Wuwei, emphasizing simplicity and surrender.
ESSAYSReturn to Simplicity Through Wuwei: https://luminousdharma.org/return-to-simplicity-through-wuwei/Returning to Nature: https://luminousdharma.org/returning-to-nature-advanced-dharma-practice/PAIRED VIDEO: https://youtu.be/qlU00qmHq1EDESCRIPTIONReturning to Simplicity is an approach to Buddhist practice based on radical surrender. What we set down is the whole apparatus of impulse, obsession, discriminating, ruminating, and holding concepts about how the world should be. We are not setting down the arising of these things, but our investment in them. What we take up instead is feeling the world as it actually is.The Buddha encouraged exploring body, mind, and environment as "not I, not me, not mine." In this discussion we look at how that seeing may be uncovered and directly experienced, and how life can open into freedom when things are entrusted back to natural function. To learn more, visit https://luminousdharma.org/.BIOJason Bartlett teaches a practical, cross-traditional approach to Buddha Dharma centered on "returning to nature" — a method of releasing the sense of self by entrusting whatever arises spontaneously and uncontrolled to nature itself, drawing on…
People in this episode
Host: Clear Mountain Monastery
Guest: Jason Bartlett
Topics covered
- Buddhism
- Wuwei
- Simplicity
- Nature
- Spirituality
- Radical Surrender
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Clear Mountain Monastery, Luminous Dharma
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