Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, make dinner for your kids and have them complain about it 😉.

From our recent YouTube live conversation.

 

Timecodes:

00:00 Why Friday Night Zen Live?

01:13 The Adolescent Phase of Selfing/Not-Selfing

02:27 Alternating Between Self and Empty Radiance

05:04 Suffering and Core Unworthiness

10:03 Why Therapy’s “Reframing” Misses the Point

14:00 Living in Story Land (Trump, Veganism, and Meaning)

17:20 Everything Driven by Unworthiness

22:21 Time Is a Story – This Has Always Been

26:04 Attachment to Outcomes and the Separate Self

30:14 The Primary Human Operating System: Unworthiness

35:31 What About Love?

41:03 On Medicine and Health 3.0

49:33 The Compulsion to Make Videos for No One

52:02 “After Awakening” – The Mind’s Favorite Story

57:13 The 5-MeO-DMT Revelation: “It’s Just This”

1:01:02 Privilege, Causation, and Different Gates

1:05:12 The Weather Pattern of Seeking

1:09:24 Music as Pure Emotion

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