Justin Patrick Pierce argues that relationships are the fundamental structure of human experience. Master them or suffer. Even modest gains in understanding how you relate to others, partners, children, and family can unlock new possibilities in everyday life.
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You can't avoid relationship. And so we have a choice. We can either master it or suffer. How do we even begin to consider that and master relationship? Because the thing for me, why I'm so fascinated by this body of work, it's not because I'm obsessed with intimate relationship. That's all interesting and is great, but it's because relationship itself is the foundation of experience. And if we can truly understand it and reconcile that conflict once and for all, we might have a chance at living a little bit of a better life. And our relationship with our intimate partner and our children and our family can just be a little bit better. Forget full awakening, forget enlightenment. If we can just become slightly more conscious and loving in our lives, what becomes available to us that wasn't there before? And so tonight's exploration is going to be focused around this.