How can a bitter tasting medicine heal physical illness? Just so, understanding suffering can liberate us from it. Listen to the dance of impermanence arising and falling endlessly. Bear witness to thoughts of fear, anger or sorrow flowing into the sea of awareness and know: awareness of fear is not afraid. So too, awareness of anger is not angry, nor does awareness of sorrow grieve. Pure presence frees us from fascination with the mind's mental creations – no future, no past, no me, no mine, no ownership, no struggle, just boundless inner peace. We are that pure consciousness – unconditional love.  Madison Insight Meditation, Wisconsin, Oct 2024