It's Not About Making Us Feel "Better"
[This is a transcript from the sangha teaching on January 8, 2026.] So what happens is that I get an idea, and then I develop it through journaling so that it can be transmitted as a teaching. And my idea was “why would we engage with a process that is not meant to make us feel better?” And so that's really a key element here – that we are not engaging in this work in order to get some particular result. We may want a lot of particular results, however, what we get is what we get. Alright, so the question on the table is… “Why would we engage with a process that is not meant to make us feel better?” Let's imagine that vipassana , which is the work that we do here, “seeing things clearly as they are,” can stop our anxiousness or discomfort and make us calm and at ease. What we are imagining is the hype that sells commercial introspection. Okay, so that happens. Then what? In other words, your anxiousness, your discomfort, goes away. Then what? Then the practice becomes ...