265: Dean Sluyter on Fearing Less

<p><strong>In This Interview, Dean Sluyter and I Discuss…</strong></p><ul><li>His book,<em>&nbsp;</em><a href="https://amzn.to/2WGX2TO" target="_blank"><em>Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction</em></a></li><li>Right View and how it relates to having less fear in your life</li><li>How right view is always liberating</li><li>Asking, “does it help?”</li><li>“One mustn’t assume burdens that God doesn’t lay upon us. The state of worry is not itself meritorious.” CS Lewis</li><li>The problem with trying to control your mind</li><li>Transcendental Meditation</li><li>Hanging out in tasklessness</li><li>The open space of awareness</li><li>How thought doesn’t have to go away in order to meditate</li><li>Relax your grip, and relax back into yourself</li><li>It doesn’t grip you, it has no power to do that. You grip it.</li><li>What it means to relax at the moment of contact</li><li>Relax into it, stop the resistance of it</li><li>Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional</li><li>suffering = pain x resistance</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Dean Sluyter Links</p><p><a href="https://www.deansluyter.com/" target="_blank">Homepage</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGuDDgnCU4&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Meditation</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ23Qk9QsQs8k887a1PEl-Q" target="_blank">Youtube</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/DeanSluyter" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p><p><br></p>