Adam Frank
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594 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Adam Frank’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, you're just going to sit with whatever comes up. You're going to make that. That's why the sitting part, you're making the commitment. I'm going to sit here with whatever comes up. I will not be moved. And then what you come away with, it actually, over time, it actually changes kind of who you are.
Like I'm still the asshole I was from New Jersey growing up, but I just have more space now for things, you know?
Always Jersey.
Yeah, that was amazing.
It's good that we just had the last conversation because I'm going to give this answer, which is so corny. It's love. And I'm not messing around because really actually what happens, you know, so within Buddhism, there's the idea of the Bodhisattva principle. You're here to help. You're just here to help, right? Compassion. Like that's a really essential part of this path, of the Dharma path.
And when I first started, I was like, I don't care about compassion. I'm here for knowledge, right? I started contemplative practice because of the usual thing. I was suffering. I had the reason everybody comes to things like this. Life was hard. I was going through stuff. But I also wanted knowledge. I wanted to understand the foundational nature of reality. So it was like compassion or whatever.
But then I found out that you can't get that. You can't get that. You can't go to this level without compassion. Somehow in this process, you realize that it really is about compassion. helping all sentient beings. That's the way they, you know, just being here to help. So I know that sounds cornball, but especially for a guy from Jersey, which is like, you know, the main thing is to get over.
Like, your job is to get over. But that's really what I found. It is actually kind of... And that's what that joy, the joy, some of that joy is just, it's like this...
One of the things I have, when I have like really, you know, there's a kind of experience I'll have in contemplative practice, which will carry out into the world, which is just this gratitude for the fact that the world is just, the world gives you everything. And there's a certain way, right? Just the blue sky and the breath, the world is just giving you itself completely unhindered.
It holds nothing back. And yeah, that's kind of the experience. And then you kind of like, oh, I need to be helpful because who's not having this experience, you know? So just love for the world as it is. Love for the world and all the beings who are suffering, everybody's suffering.
You know, your worst political opponent, they're suffering, you know, and our job is just to try and drop our biases and our stories and see this fundamental level at which life is occurring.
Yeah, that would, you know, that may be a universal thing about what it means to be alive. I hope so. I hope so too. They're coming to eat us.
That's right. And they got really big guns.
Oh, thank you. This was a lot of fun.
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