We live alongside deep questions that can only ever be provisionally answered. To stop asking them is to freeze into something. But when we stay open, our life becomes an open loop of feedback—of pain, of goodness. And to be mindful of pain brings love. To be mindful of goodness brings love. And that asymmetry is the miracle.
Talks
October 23, 2025
| 47 min 43 sec
Living Alongside Questions
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew Brensilver
Residential Retreat Teacher
Matthew Brensilver teaches at the Insight Retreat Center, Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Society. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and continues to be interested in the dialogue between Buddhism and science.