Diego Perez

And you notice the connection between

having no aversion towards people or trying not to have aversion towards people and wishing them the best and that deeply supporting your own inner peace because you're not sort of like channeling all that turbulence and harboring all of that.

Instead, you're giving them love.

Yeah, there's a subtlety there.

There's a very important subtlety because compassion does not mean that you're a pushover.

Compassion does not mean that you let people do whatever they want to do.

What it really means is that you are doing your best to treat people well.

And when you come across someone who is causing harm, you know, whether Trump or not, we're talking about any individual, when you come across someone who's causing harm, you do your best to stop them.

But you do your best to stop them without hating them.

you do your best to stop them out of compassion because they're harming others and for the one getting harmed and the one doing the harming.

And this is interesting because back in 2012, so I came into that first Go Anka retreat with a very social activist conditioning quite left at the time.

It was on day eight that Goenka talked about this exact thing that it just really deeply connected with me.

He was like, you don't just let people harm others.

You're not just going to stand there like a vegetable.

You're not just going to let whatever happened happen.

Oh, that's all because of karma.

It's not like that.

When you come across something like that and it's in your direct line of sight,

you do your best to speak up.

You do your best to stop them if it's something that's on a very micro interpersonal level.