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André Duqum

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Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

Yeah, it's the experiential knowing that we were speaking to before when you feel yourself as a being of flowing continuous vibrations and not this solid I, this solid locus of thoughts and emotions kind of somewhere crouched around here that's like, you know, kind of in a survival energy towards the external world. It takes it from knowledge to truly wisdom because you're living that experience.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

And, you know, I'd like to get your perspective on impermanence because it's such an important thing for us to, one, understand intellectually and then also deepen our experience of because life has this illusion of continuity. Like, for example, a lot of these lights that are around us are actually flickering maybe hundreds of times per second.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

And, you know, I'd like to get your perspective on impermanence because it's such an important thing for us to, one, understand intellectually and then also deepen our experience of because life has this illusion of continuity. Like, for example, a lot of these lights that are around us are actually flickering maybe hundreds of times per second.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

And, you know, I'd like to get your perspective on impermanence because it's such an important thing for us to, one, understand intellectually and then also deepen our experience of because life has this illusion of continuity. Like, for example, a lot of these lights that are around us are actually flickering maybe hundreds of times per second.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

But because it's so fast, so rapid, we're not aware to the degree that it's actually not a full continuous light source. And similarly, within our experience of life, we have this experience of being a solid self moving through solid space and time. And as you deepen from anapana to vipassana, you're starting to really experience that illusoriness.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

But because it's so fast, so rapid, we're not aware to the degree that it's actually not a full continuous light source. And similarly, within our experience of life, we have this experience of being a solid self moving through solid space and time. And as you deepen from anapana to vipassana, you're starting to really experience that illusoriness.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

But because it's so fast, so rapid, we're not aware to the degree that it's actually not a full continuous light source. And similarly, within our experience of life, we have this experience of being a solid self moving through solid space and time. And as you deepen from anapana to vipassana, you're starting to really experience that illusoriness.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

the observer right like even even with vipassana like you know some people say just you know be the observer but even the observer melts away it goes back to what you said in the beginning of deciding to live more gently like when you experience the impermanence of something that there will be a first and last time that we do anything in life yeah it changes radically how we approach all of our relationships our career our family and how we engage with them because

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

the observer right like even even with vipassana like you know some people say just you know be the observer but even the observer melts away it goes back to what you said in the beginning of deciding to live more gently like when you experience the impermanence of something that there will be a first and last time that we do anything in life yeah it changes radically how we approach all of our relationships our career our family and how we engage with them because

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

the observer right like even even with vipassana like you know some people say just you know be the observer but even the observer melts away it goes back to what you said in the beginning of deciding to live more gently like when you experience the impermanence of something that there will be a first and last time that we do anything in life yeah it changes radically how we approach all of our relationships our career our family and how we engage with them because

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

As much as I love this conversation and meeting you, who knows what's going to happen to either of us the next moment, you know? And that invites actually an immense presence and that brings so much more aliveness to life. On the path of deepening our awareness, I found, especially through studying through Dhamma and Vipassana,

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

As much as I love this conversation and meeting you, who knows what's going to happen to either of us the next moment, you know? And that invites actually an immense presence and that brings so much more aliveness to life. On the path of deepening our awareness, I found, especially through studying through Dhamma and Vipassana,

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

As much as I love this conversation and meeting you, who knows what's going to happen to either of us the next moment, you know? And that invites actually an immense presence and that brings so much more aliveness to life. On the path of deepening our awareness, I found, especially through studying through Dhamma and Vipassana,

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

learning how there's three types of actions that we can have, you know, from the physical, which were all obvious, you know, are obvious to us, to the vocal, to our mental, which is the most subtle and they put the most importance on because they're closest to the source of which where our impulses arise. I found that there's so much more importance on our mental, my mental volition.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

learning how there's three types of actions that we can have, you know, from the physical, which were all obvious, you know, are obvious to us, to the vocal, to our mental, which is the most subtle and they put the most importance on because they're closest to the source of which where our impulses arise. I found that there's so much more importance on our mental, my mental volition.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

learning how there's three types of actions that we can have, you know, from the physical, which were all obvious, you know, are obvious to us, to the vocal, to our mental, which is the most subtle and they put the most importance on because they're closest to the source of which where our impulses arise. I found that there's so much more importance on our mental, my mental volition.

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

Like I found that as a direct path to like, the doorway, the gateway into my subconscious and unconscious, but also like where so much transformation comes. And so what is mental volition and how you would explain it?

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

Like I found that as a direct path to like, the doorway, the gateway into my subconscious and unconscious, but also like where so much transformation comes. And so what is mental volition and how you would explain it?

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

Like I found that as a direct path to like, the doorway, the gateway into my subconscious and unconscious, but also like where so much transformation comes. And so what is mental volition and how you would explain it?

Know Thyself
E135 - Yung Pueblo: Reflections on Awakening & Becoming a Presence of Love

similar timeframe when I set my first 10 day and then six months later went and served my first one. And man, looking back, you really are able to connect the dots. How for me, and I'm sure for you, like that was such a big pivotal point of, of transformation.