Alexis Santos – Coming home

Alexis Santos is a meditation teacher who teaches retreats internationally. He has been a long-time student of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, including several years of training as a Buddhist Monk under his guidance. Alexis also completed the 4-year teacher training program through Insight Meditation Society at Spirit Rock. Alexis’ teachings emphasize knowing the mind through a natural and relaxed continuity. In this episode we speak about amongst other topics:

• The difference between natural awareness and focused awareness
• What Alexis has learned from his teacher Sayadaw U Tejaniya
• The feeling of coming home
• The fruits of being kind to others
• Usual misunderstandings on the path
• The habits of our minds
• Skillful versus unskillful actions
• The superpower of saying sorry
• How we can help others to let go
• Wise understanding and wise attitude
• The worldly versus the unworldly joys
• Why Alexis and Axel practice
• Alexis ends our conversation by guiding a meditation to return home

For more information about Alexis, please visit his homepage.

Read the transcript of our conversation with Alexis here.