Diego Perez

You want to honor the fact that they're there because you don't want to be running away from yourself.

But at the same time, you have to introduce yourself to subtlety.

And there is the subtlety of being able to feel the emotion, observe the emotion without just letting it dominate you.

Yeah.

Totally.

And it's just another thing.

And that's something that the training, you know, for meditating has taught me is like.

just embrace the truth of impermanence don't work against the universe work with it everything is constantly changing everything is changing at the atomic level the biological level the cosmological level the whole universe is just flowing forward like a river and

If I cling, if I attach to things, then I'm working against the universe and things are going to hurt because I'm literally moving against the flow.

So I can control what I can control and I can communicate as well as I can in a relationship.

But yeah, there are still going to be difficult moments and let me work with them.

Let me be skillful, but let me not cling to the past.

Both of them have the same quality.

And this is one of the values of these different, especially the Theravada practices, where you may enter into them and you start immediately seeing that the mind will initially be very black and white.

It'll sway from extreme to extreme where it's like, oh, if I can't have any attachments, does that mean that I can't have any goals in life?

I can't do anything.

I'm just going to be passive.

Like, no, it's not like that.

What it's doing is that it's introducing you to subtlety.

So for example,