As long as you’re operating from a sense of me and mine, wanting and not wanting, there's always going to be stress, or dukkha. It’s part of being a separate somebody, which is small, limited, and uncomfortable. In brahmavihāra practice, we’re giving space to that which is not personal—yet arises within our own being and transforms our being. Creating a more spacious awareness is an essential part of the practice. We’re opening to a greater truth, a greater reality, a greater resonance than the little “me and mine” story can really accommodate.
