Liberating Understandings

In Beyond Distraction, Catherine writes,

“Liberation requires letting go of the illusion that we exist as a permanent self, an observer, a witness, or the controller of activities. Self-grasping is not abandoned through effort, but by understanding that the illusion of self is constructed through layers of mental habits, misperceptions, and attachments.”

The point of the teaching goes far beyond self-improvement projects. Catherine suggests, “Powerful, liberating understandings occur by directly experiencing the “nots” — not-clinging, not-self, not-mine, not-fabricated, not-identifying.”