Tim Burkett: Enlightenment is an Accident

“Looking. Seeing. Peace.” Tim Burkett discusses the contents of his new book Enlightenment is an Accident in this richly informative and encouraging talk. Tim walks us through the three phases of practice — settling in, stumbling, and falling away — and offers us practices and teachings to navigate each phase and to help make us accident-prone. He especially reflects on the balance of line — our aspiration, why are we here?— and dot — just being here— practices. In the Q&A, he offers his understanding of where the phrase “enlightenment is an accident and practice makes us accident-prone” comes from and of the term “enlightenment.”