I had a series of massive insights when I was 16 years old. Shortly thereafter, my familiar, habitual thinking slowly came back, masking what I had seen. This happens, but I didn’t know it at the time. I spent a good part of the next 20 years trying to chase down or recreate my former
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In this episode, I attempt to describe what’s there beyond our changing, moving, psychological experience. As you might imagine, it’s not easy to describe in words. But I try, using one of my favorite ways of thinking about it–the purring cat (I got this from my friend Marnix Pauwels).If anything I say in this episode resonates
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Or chop vegetables, carry water. Same thing.The full zen koan is “Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”What does that mean?I don’t know. But what I hear in it is how simple, practical, and “everyday” insights can be…which is exactly the opposite of how our mind tells us they will
What if we’re designed with the ability to eat without needing to think much about it? And what if we never, ever lose this ability…we just think we’ve lost it? I know it can look like we have all the evidence in the world to prove that we don’t know how to eat. We overeat. We restrict.
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Imagine riding a rollercoaster with no concept of what a rollercoaster is.If you don’t know you’re on a 2-minute, relatively safe ride, every twist and turn is terrifying. It’s all so real. It feels dangerous; your safety and security appear to be at stake. You know nothing about what’s happening or what’s going to happen.There’s
Gina has been the primary caregiver for her father and step-mother, during a pandemic, no less. To make matters worse, her husband has had some recent health challenges and she’s been caring for him as well. As many of you know firsthand, caretaking can be a huge job.She’s felt the enormity and exhaustion and uncertainty
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It’s your capacity to feel uncomfortable and know who you are. Watch that feeling rise and fall without tossing a bunch of words and concepts and mental ideas at it.If you eat, it’s your capacity to feel energy that your mind calls discomfort and know who you are beyond and bigger than it. Watch the
Politicians do not determine our overall level of wellbeing. Policies and practices, while very important in a macro sense, do not determine what we feel in a micro sense. In this episode, we’ll explore that macro-micro distinction. When we look out to the macro and think it affects the micro, we suffer. That suffering is our
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Scary thoughts are not much different than nightmares.When you wake up after a horrible nightmare and realize it was a dream, the emotion begins to fade pretty quickly.There might be some lingering adrenaline throughout the morning, but rarely much.“It was just a nightmare. It’s not real,” is something you might say with great relief.What if
Sarah’s life today is unrecognizable from how it once was.She spent 15 years in and out of hospital, afraid to eat, often on a feeding tube, with more than one suicide attempt. She didn’t think she could cope with life. She didn’t want to grow up, so she kept herself (literally) tiny and physically dependent. Her
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