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Ten Percent Happier · August 12, 2024 · 50m
Sebene Selassie: The Radical Practice of Belonging
Meditation teacher Sebene Selassie on belonging as a fundamental human need and a meditation practice. How the illusion of separateness creates suffering, and how practices of interconnection can heal division.
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Highlights
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Belonging is not earned — it is the natural state from which we have become alienated
Selassie argues that belonging is not something you achieve through acceptance by others. It is the fundamental reality of interconnection that modern individualism has obscured. You already belong; you have forgotten.•
The illusion of the separate self is the root cause of most psychological suffering
Selassie presents the Buddhist teaching of anatta (non-self) in modern language: the belief that you are a separate, isolated individual creates anxiety, loneliness, and the constant need for external validation that drives most suffering.Was this useful?