“You” can’t trust this moment…and also, there’s only trust. A Friday Zen live on the nature of pure trust, why the separate self can never surrender, the second arrow that never landed, and the old man who took the longest dump in trail bathroom history. 
Topics and Timecodes:
0:00 Welcome — You Can’t Trust This (MC Hammer Was Right)
0:36 The Separate Self Can Never Truly Surrender
1:36 Zubin as Dancing Light on a Screen
3:01 There’s Only Trust — When the Self Drops
4:13 Pure Trust as the Fabric of Everything
4:58 The Bathroom Story: Pee, Abdominal Spasm, and the Second Arrow
7:26 No Second Arrow — But the First One Still Hurts
8:34 What Else Could It Be? — The Nature of Pure Trust
9:39 Was the Trust Rewarded? You Can’t Even Ask That.
10:03 The Unicorn Is Real — Labels Are This Arising as Labels
11:41 How Is This Different From Faith?
No Belief, No Faith — Just This
The Flow of Trust vs. The Struggle of Pushing and Pulling
14:44 Dream Is Dream All the Way Down (Inception Was Right)
14:53 Trust Is Meaningless Without Subject and Object — Sylvia’s Point
16:03 Peeing in the Forest While Old Man Withers Rides Away
17:06 All Analogies Fail — Including Trust 17:54
Awakening Is More or Less When the You Drops
18:49 You’re Dead — And This Is What After Death Looks Like
20:14 This Trust Is Unconditional Love
Trying to Conceptualize Objective Reality
21:37 Confidence and Hope Are Rooted in Trust — But That’s Not This 22:27 Am I AI? (Probably. Also, You Blink Less.)
23:26 Most of Spirituality Is Play Acting at Awakening
24:19 Why Does Zubin Keep Making Videos?
25:13 Trust Me — Be Careful With That
26:01 It’s So Dog-F**king Ordinary
27:10 Sweet Dreams Are Made of This (Eurythmics Had It)
28:02 No One Making Choices — Just Choicing
28:33 All Regret, All Guilt — Goes Poof
Why Are We Here? Because We’re Here. Roll the Bones.
31:33 How Much Is Zubin Wearing the Mask?
33:47 Why Is This Redundant? Because That’s What’s Happening.
35:01 Even the Resistance to Making Videos Is Gone
36:33 No Center to Own the Compliment — And That’s a Relief
37:28 The Buddha Shows Up — “Shut the F**k Up, B. Diddy”
38:33 Meditation Arises for the Same Reason Videos Arise — Trust
40:06 Spirituality’s Problem: It’s Selling Seeking
42:22 Lord of the Rings and the Mines of Moria
43:55 Non-Dual Teachers Are Appearing as Part of the Trust
45:04 I Am He as You Are He as We Are All Together — Lennon
45:44 Staring at Construction Debris at the Retreat — In Love With It
47:47 The Void and Why the Mind Hates It
50:08 Nihilism Is Also a Contrivance
53:17 The Snake Sucking Its Own Snake Dick — An Infinite Loop
54:54 Advice for a Vipassana Retreat: Pure Silence
56:29 Nowhere to Land — The Dark Night of Nihilism
57:19 Nothing Really Matters Doesn’t Matter Either
58:11 Wrap-Up, Pork Chops on the New Weber, and Peace Out
