Cory Muscara
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Corey Muscara. Thanks for being here, dude. Thanks, Andre. Yeah. One of my greatest joys on this podcast is getting to see these different individuals online who are sharing similar inspiring content around meditation, mindfulness, spirituality, and getting to connect in person and feel like, oh, we're going to be great friends off the bat. Yeah, likewise.
Yeah, it's really cool to dig into your story too and see your life as a former monk and becoming a best-selling author, cultivating quite the audience online and proliferating wisdom in these modern times. Something that really resonates with me, also the name of your book titles is this idea of like how we can stop missing our lives
think as you start to realize what a gift this life is, you realize to the degree we've been unconscious for so much of it and living life through the perception of our own conditioning. So that phrasing of like, stop missing your life really resonates with me because I feel like
for many different periods of my life, I've been keenly aware of the passing of time and how aware I am and present I am during those periods and the times that I really haven't been. And it's painful to realize those times you haven't been because you see what a gift this life is. And so what comes to mind when you hear that phrasing, stop missing your life?
And why was that so kind of motivating for you?
Absolutely. It's a messy, windy road and the synthesizing and integration of both paths isn't really talked about as much as I think I would like to. And I think it's getting more and more light, you know, but I think we're really familiar with the spiritual insight of waking up beyond the illusion of your thoughts and your emotions and, uh,
those meditative practices that can really support in waking up beyond the identification with those processes internally. And then, of course, the Western psychotherapeutic approach of parts work and healing your traumatic wounds and daddy issues and like, you know, really familiar with that too.
And I love to see the coming together of how they both support one another and are incomplete in and of themselves. And so we can continue to dive into that. I think a theme throughout this conversation is I want to pull from some quotes of yours, either from your posts online or book, and we can expand on it because I think they're articulated really well.
One aspect of internally feeling like we're not present for our life is this continual...
sort of orientation that our ideal life is somewhere in the future that is aka not now and and so this quote i think hits on that really well the belief that there is some future moment more worth our presence than the one we're in right now is why we miss our lives and so if you want to kind of share about your journey awakening to that realization uh because it's such a pervasive and persistent one i think throughout all culture
It's pretty amazing to feel the radical transformation in our present moment when we can, yes, acknowledge that there is maybe a certain arrangement of conditionings or a certain amount of money or relationship or health that is someday in the future we want to attain to, and we can have those.
But to recognize that part of having that and part of actualizing that and to form in the manifest is not having it. And that's the journey that we're currently on. And so like not being on our path or feeling lost is our path.
is is part of the whole journey um and so yeah finding that acceptance in the moment that maybe we want something to change but in the moment realizing that it is our current life right now and allowing us to land in this moment fully is is so much of our work and it's so tough to do that when we're so heavily identified with our own thoughts because we believe them to be true
And so I know you started to wake up to this realization as well yourself, and then you decided to go spend six months as a monk. And so talk to me about awakening to that realization and that transition and what then led you to make such a radical choice.
I'm looking forward to hearing what ensued afterwards. But that insight you just shared about primary and secondary pain, you know, about the
reality of having a human body that experiences things but then the recycling and multiplication of that that our mind does as you know per habit is a really liberating perspective because then we can stop being prisoners to our experience and we can actually be liberators of it and one framing that i love around this too was experience awareness and story and so i would love if you could share a couple more examples of that and how it could be
practice and practical for anybody who's listening right now that is living life that has an experience the awareness of that experience and the stories that we unconsciously or consciously continue to label on top of that and how it's important to differentiate the three yeah
All great thoughts, right?
replacing disempowering stories with empowering ones, and then also waking up to an awareness that encompasses and will always be the background field in which any story arises, really support each other. And again, it can be easy to get sucked into one camp or the other.
I think it's great to replace old narratives that are old conditioning passed down through culture, family, genes, whatever, with new ones. You know, I am worthy is much better than I'm not worthy in terms of your internal experience and the fruits that it's going to bear in your external reality.
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