André Duqum

You find your ground by relaxing into instability.

And so there's this interesting universal paradoxical framing that is really interesting to put into action in our life because it's a very unique philosophical exploration, but to actually live it is where liberation comes in.

Yeah.

This is one of those quotes where if I were to go back, I would add a little bit of context.

Maybe I did in the caption.

I forget.

But you don't find your ground by looking for stability.

You find your ground by relaxing into instability.

There's a spiritual truth in that.

There's also a relative truth that sometimes you need to create enough external stability to allow your system to relax enough to even begin this pursuit.

I think sometimes coming out of poverty, coming out of very difficult circumstances where there's a lot of chaos, having a grounded relationship,

even if we're not sure, it's like coming from the deepest place, but it just like we feel stability and something feels good about that is really necessary for other parts of our system to open up.

So I want to acknowledge that truth.

And there is no example in the universe of someone attaining awakening by perfectly manufacturing their external world.

In many ways, it can actually become a prison because it gets so comfortable that you mistake it as awakening, you mistake it as freedom, or you have just less and less of a reason to try to pursue something else.

is really to look at the classic, once that happens, then I can start the work.

And just watch how compelling that is and how subtle that is.

And what is it like to just meet this moment with an orientation, as Bikubori would say, this moment, it's like this.

It...

allows us to soften our grip on how this moment should be, meet it in its perfect imperfection, as spiritually trite as that is.