<p>In this episode, Katie Churchman talks with Mark Ovland about the Ways of Looking approach, a framework for meditation. What if your deepest happiness and freedom had less to do with what happens and more to do with how you're relating to what happens? Across this conversation, Katie & Mark explore the Ways of Looking framework as developed by the late meditation master <a target="_blank" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhermesamara.org%2Frob-burbea&data=05%7C01%7C%7C371d4fb040ec4642b19f08db5c473977%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638205233202416617%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=t4PNX43C5gpKc7l3GMw%2FMNrFWbcb7B39Zn5LfMw7XTI%3D&reserved=0">Rob Burbea</a> and discuss the impact that different lenses can have on our lives. They investigate the idea that the way we relate to the world affects our perception of it - for instance, bringing more ease, freedom, and joy into our experience - and, thus, how this approach can create more flexibility, expansion and empathy in our lives. In this discussion, they focus more on the everyday application of the approach than on the formal meditative training behind it all. </p><p>Mark Ovland began practising meditation in 2008 and is currently training to teach within the Buddhist Insight Meditation tradition. He has lived and worked in various monasteries and retreat centres around India and the UK and has spent around two years on intensive silent retreats himself. Mark helped to pioneer mindfulness courses within the UK prison system and was one of the co-founders of Freely Given Retreats, a charity that runs weeklong silent meditation retreats on a donation basis. In 2013 he and some friends set up DANCE (the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement), and in recent years, he has been particularly engaged with environmental and social justice issues. Mark was a close student of the late meditation master Rob Burbea.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Balcony View at <a href="https://balconyview.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">balconyview.substack.com/subscribe</a>
