Diego Perez

our nervous systems are calm in front of each other so that you don't feel like you're like, you know, you don't have to have your guard up around me in any way.

But it is like, I think the being in relationship, the combination of like, and this is totally right for me as an individual, but the combination of

being on this quest of meditation and simultaneously having a long-term relationship has been the two greatest points that feel like simultaneously they're helping me grow because my wife is also my comrade in wisdom.

Like she is so serious about her own growth and I trust her perception is quite clear.

So it just helps me see like, you know, where I'm at and we're honest with each other, you know, without being like petty or giving unnecessary feedback.

But

when a truth needs to be told and I hear it from her, it really means a lot.

And usually it's coming from a place where, you know, she really wants what's best for me.

And I think it's just so helpful.

So I see myself, she sees me and, you know, we help each other grow.

I know, after you read the suttas enough, everything's in a list.

Yeah, that became really clear to me in the earlier years.

So I came from a background in nonprofit organizing.

So I spent a lot of time being a part of movements and just organizing people to make change in their cities or in their schools.

And I would see how much the world could be a better place.

And that, in combination with my love for history and just reading about all these struggles that human beings have gone through,

it's clear to me that we're often in this massive web together as human beings because we're so communal that it's almost like the hurt that someone has felt, they may intentionally or unintentionally pass it on to someone else.

And like that, we keep passing on hurt in some form of another to each other.

And that lesson is,

felt really important to mention at the top because i do think that we live in this very precious historical moment even with all of the chaos and all of the ups and downs and the political changes and whatnot it feels like there's never been a time before other than the time of the buddha where