Cory Muscara

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.

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.

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...

One aspect of internally feeling like we're not present for our life is this continual...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.