André Duqum

There is that, again, that saying from the Gita that when you protect your Dharma, your Dharma protects you, protects you.

Um, and, uh,

It's just fascinating what comes on the path when you're living in alignment with that.

It does beg the question of how does one move from shoulds to like authentic dharma and discovery of that?

What have you found for people as the biggest catalyst to really discovering and living in that?

I'm like that 27, I'm 28.

So I'm like, I'm at that point where I'm transitioning into that full-time delegation of all the things that aren't highest priority value, most meaningful to me.

But is there something that just that feel that you feel called to share about what would serve someone like myself who's embarking on the journey of life, getting to hopefully living a life that is most meaningful and aligned with my values decades down the road?

I'm curious what you think of the balance between like realizing we're a creator of reality and we can have an intention and powerfully manifest things.

Oftentimes in earlier on in spiritual people's journey, it's at least in the West kind of directed towards materialistic purposes of trying to attract or make more money or whatever thing.

Right.

there's that but how do you balance that with the feeling of trust and surrender that what's meant for you will be yours and what's not meant for you you will never have and yeah taking the pressure off of trying to create your reality and kind of recognize the inherent abundance around you and and um allowing the like to be surprised by the universe in a way so like yeah how do you how do you balance between intentionally manifesting and attracting what you want versus

What you're speaking to also, which is like kind of letting go of it and understanding that that's a powerful way to live, but perhaps a more powerful way to live is to also release the unending need for improvement and to be in the deeper state of gratitude and appreciation.

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, 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.

Yeah, you get a really clear, like,

it just sort of jumps you into what's true.