Diego Perez

And that's not indicative of wisdom.

That's just more indicative of effort.

But like, I know a lot of people have meditated like 40, 50,000 hours and like,

These people are weapons, you know, like their minds are just so strong and they've never written a book, never been on a podcast.

They're just like quietly these beings of great wisdom.

And I love being around people like that because they just, they help me grow.

Yeah, it's totally overlooked.

Even with the monastics, the Sangha, we don't have as much understanding in the Western world about the Buddhist Sangha.

But there are times when I'm out here in Western Mass and I see monks walking around up and down the hill.

It's so cool.

To me, it's like they've surrendered everything.

They practice, they serve, and they have literally sort of donated their lives to

to the Dhamma so that they can help the continuation of the teaching, helping the teaching continue existing for future generations.

And I'm like, dang, that's some power.

That's so, so amazing.

So super inspired by things like that.

You gotta come hang out.

It's cool.

I went to your center a year and a half ago, got to give Donna to Biku and Alio and just check out the whole center.

And it was just awesome.