Diego Perez

So he ended up growing up in Burma and he ended up hearing about

and then training with him and trained with him for, I think it was like 12 or 14 years.

Another interesting thing to note too is that these traditions are so well-respected.

So in Lumbini, in the birthplace of the Buddha, I got to go there about a year ago and there's a site where it said,

you know, the place where supposedly the Buddha was born.

And in this, I don't even know what to call it, but it's almost like a giant park.

There are also a lot of different Buddhist traditions there.

And the Mahasi Monastery and the Goenka Meditation Center are the closest.

For some reason, the people in Lumbini, when they were setting up that park, they allowed those two centers to be closest to

where, you know, supposedly where the Buddha was born, I think it's almost like a sign of like respect for these two lineages because they've just affected so many people positively.

You explained it so clearly.

And I think what I would add to it too is that

the difficult thing is that someone can do something that's objectively harmful and wrong, but your perception and your reaction is happening in your own mind.

And the intensity of that, of what you end up feeling, that turmoil, you know, very quickly the mind likes to play games and the mind wants to figure out how can I jump through these almost like illogical hoops to figure out how I can make this solely your fault and not accept an irresponsibility.

And

granted there are definitely times where you make mistakes and you should apologize but what my wife and i started finding out when we started meditating was that anytime we would feel sort of internal discomfort we would try to pick up some sort of old argument that may have been resolved or find some reason to figure out how i can point the finger at you and make this your fault and

And it was a real like awakening moment for the both of us where it was like, wait, I'm actually not mad at you.

I just didn't realize that I woke up and I didn't feel good.

And my mind was looking for another reason to not only keep fueling that feeling of not feeling good, but trying to figure out, okay, how is this your fault?

When really you have nothing to do with it.