Dan Harris

And that kind of ebb and flow that Jeff has compared, he didn't use it this time, but he has sometimes compared that to the tide.

So it's those little moments.

How am I doing now?

Does that make any sense?

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's why I get so excited when people come to me and say, you know, I can't meditate.

I'm so, I'm seeing all these distractions or sleepiness.

I'm like, bro, that is, that's not a time.

You are seeing stuff.

And that's, that just gets that compound, that skill.

gets better and better over time.

Well, there's some good drugs for that.

Let's talk later.

You holding, dude?

I'll take a first crack at that and then see what you say.

So the instruction, as I understand it, when something comes up,

like anger, let's just take anger, you said you try to figure it out, and I understand the instruction to be check it out.

So one of my favorite ancient expressions in the insight or vipassana meditation tradition, which is much of what we're teaching here, is seeing by dividing.