André Duqum

The substances, the pornography, the videos...

Not necessarily moral failings at all, but you're speaking to this distraction as being sort of rooted in a dysregulation of your nervous system.

There's a discomfort.

There's something that you're avoiding.

So is it then a skill issue to be able to learn how to be with discomfort?

to be able to go back in the direction of traction and not distraction, right?

If we want to reclaim and live the life we want that we plan and intend to live, um, then how does one cultivate that traction?

I'm curious your thoughts on – I personally love the intersection of neuroscience and what the contemplative wisdom traditions have been saying for a while.

Where do they converge?

What are we verifying with science and backing up from what the yogis would say?

And one thing that's interesting for me is just –

what attention is from their perspective and really the goal for moving from like unconsciousness to consciousness from this like compulsive reactionary state that we find ourself in, often originating in this sense of discomfort towards agency, towards responding instead of reacting.

And I'm curious your thoughts on that because they would, the way that a lot of

those wisdom traditions would phrase it is that, uh, Tanha, which is craving, which is the pulling towards, um, you know, it's the craving and the aversion, this like the grasping for is actually rooted in a video, which is ignorance, uh, ignorance of self, um,

you in many ways slip into like a hypnotic state when you are getting pulled by like that dopaminergic urge for pleasure because you can't be with discomfort like you're speaking to.

I'm curious what you thought there and any interesting findings.

Well, I'm just curious your thoughts on how, like I'm always looking to go back into the root and the origin of why something's happening because then you have actual,

you can affect the actual chain of causality instead of just working on the surface level, right?

We try to change our thoughts, but we don't examine often the beliefs that the thoughts are originating from often.

And when it comes to attention...