Diego Perez

there are literally millions of people meditating.

There are millions of people in therapy, millions of people who are actively helping themselves come out of past pain, come out of serious trauma, who are trying to heal themselves in some way or another.

And what's really interesting is that I think historically, we do pass on pain to whomever is in proximity to us,

But we have this opportunity now where people who are equipped with these tools, whatever we know, whether it's meditating or not, they're equipped with these tools that can help them transmute that pain.

So if they do receive pain from others or receive pain, you know, in their childhood or whatnot, they can figure out how to deal with that, how to process it and how to let it go so that those that they're around, they don't pass on that pain to others and inspires me a lot and gives me a lot of hope.

someone who's fully enlightened, and I think about these archetypes, like the Buddha or Jesus, these are beings that were so fully

in unconditional love like that was their existence like that's the way the framework of their mind you know how we live through ego as you continue burning that conditioning like we mentioned your framework slowly starts shifting to become much more compassionate compassion for yourself and compassion for others and i think it is possible to take it to the ultimate level where you just exist in a framework of compassion and what that means is when you look out onto the world

You don't see anyone as your enemy.

No one is your enemy.

There's just this flowing love.

But even so, you know, there is, I think that line that you were mentioning with Jesus on the cross, it just points out to ignorance.

People just don't know what they're doing.

I know that's my favorite one.

It's interesting.

Sometimes people have a really tough time with that one and it trips them out.

And I can understand it on an intellectual level because it might point towards

like nihilism or something like that.

But that's not really what we're talking about here.

It's just that when you just really cultivate the mind and train the mind and basically turn your mind into a microscope, there are times where, you know, when I'm in meditation retreats, it feels like I'm sitting at the edge of the universe and I'm just really studying, minute studying, like how is reality structured?

Like how is this bound together?