Diego Perez

And the moment that you take that breath,

very sharpened awareness and turn it to the body, the truth of this law of nature, the truth of impermanence becomes starkly clear because the body doesn't feel solid.

It looks solid.

You can look in the mirror, but what you actually feel is almost like this rushing river of atoms where it's just like bubbling up and changing at incredibly rapid rates.

And when you're in tune with that for days and days, for weeks,

you delete so much conditioning and you come out and you're like, wow, I still feel sadness.

You know, it was funny.

The last time I went, I finished a retreat.

And then literally three days later, I'm at South by Southwest.

I'm speaking in front of 4,000 people and I'm,

As soon as I get up there, I'm like, oh, I should be feeling anxiety right now.

But there was nothing, there was none.

I was just like, it was so easy to just go into flow.

And I think it was directly related to in that particular course.

I went up against a lot of fear.

So much fear kept coming up.

Fear that was not triggered by anything.

It was just fear that was stored in my mind.

And fear and anxiety have this very deep relationship.

So then I get on stage after the course is over, and I was like, wow, I just could not believe how little anxiety I felt in that moment.