Dave Evans

And the achieving brain is getting an awful lot of stimulation these days.

The awakened brain is present to that present moment.

And so the mindfulness movement, you know, these various practices, one of the things we're...

Reminding people is don't turn those into transactions too.

We watch a lot of people turn their practice into yet another transaction.

I had a really good sit this morning.

I nailed my yoga practice.

I had a personal best in yoga today.

Okay, you just turned a practice into a performance.

As opposed to realizing while you're walking along, yes, you can have a walking meditation.

You can have a chopping meditation.

You can have a driving meditation.

You can actually be more present to the world you're in all the time is not taking a little time out and stocking up to go back to the real world of getting things done.

It's actually living in the real world that's currently happening.

It really is what I'm working on right now.

What I had to admit was one of the shifts in life we talk about in late in life is moving from role to soul.

I'm no longer really identified in, you know, I'm a Stanford instructing book writing guy.

That's my role in the institution of, you know, the book publishing industry or in the academic world, as opposed to simply, you know, I'm Dave Evans, the grandfather of 11 delightful young people trying to show up and be present to what's currently happening.

So moving out of a role-based life into more of a soul-based life,

means I'm trying to drop all that production-based identity.