André Duqum

Where is my genuine seeking coming from?

Where are my actual questions?

I think that a question well phrased is an answer half given.

When you actually know what it is you're actually asking, it's a whole art form and something I'm passionate about.

And so I fully resonate with you.

And I do think that these frameworks with the context that you just gave allows people to find that reference point and pinpoint it in their own experience, right?

Not take it as a doctrine that just they add into their mind, but when it comes to sensory desire, you know, and how that clouds our mind to like pinpoint that and name it when it arises in the moment.

So I would love to still go through these 500s if you're down.

Good.

All of them.

I like it.

That was so well said.

I think as we circling back to the beginning of this conversation referred to the progression of the path, you know, what seems like kind of an esoteric term, raising your consciousness, is going from

in practical sense, this clouded state of mind to the essence of who we are, that experience of nothingness.

And I've heard you share a bit about like increasing our sensitivity, our capacity to listen to the subtleties, the way that our mind is frequently pulled into by any of these hindrances.

So what are your thoughts on how one can increase their sensitivity and ability to listen?

There's a simplicity to it as well that needs no doctrine to follow.

That's why I love Anapana when they teach early on in Vipassana.

There's just an immediacy to paying attention to the breath, which I find is very accessible for everybody because we're all breathing.

As you have risen your own sensitivity, your own ability to listen, what's one thing that you have noticed that you completely missed before about life, about the self, anything that comes to mind?