Diego Perez

To grow, to change, to like just be who they want to be.

And that can be something as small as like what they want to watch, what they want to read, like the hobbies that they want to do and the freedom to move about in the world.

And you don't have to be plastered together all the time to be with each other.

It's fun talking to you because you have so much context.

So the mind has this quality where the moment that it stops producing any new reactions, right?

The mind is no longer reacting because the mind is very equanimous.

Even if it's for like a second or two seconds or five minutes where there's stable equanimity, stable awareness, the mind is really in tune with reality as it is.

The mind isn't really creating more new conditioning that hardens and weighs down the mind.

Instead, what happens is that the old conditioning that's there very quickly starts, a better term is just evaporating.

It starts burning away because you're no longer feeding it.

Similar to like...

you know, the way that you have to charge your iPhone, and you have to plug your iPhone in, charge it, and it has battery.

The moment that you stop, you unplug it, you're no longer charging it, the battery slowly melts away.

And when you're in one of these purification paths, like you're literally purifying the mind of this hardened conditioning, and

moment that you stop reacting the moment that you're actually a quantumist all that old stuff automatically starts burning away and when you go away to these longer retreats you know i mean in these retreats also like it's people who like my wife and i are usually the youngest people in the room you know a lot of people there have been meditating for 40 50 years and you keep mentioning joseph and the last retreat that we sat was with barry and kate lapping and barry lapping

he was roommates with Joseph.

You know, they were roommates like in India for years and, you know, really like still friends to this day, but he was a teacher of that course.

And there's something where, you know, we spend the first 15 days just sharpening the mind with Anupama, with the natural awareness of the breath.

And after 15 days of being aware of the breath, the mind becomes so calm and so concentrated that the mind becomes quite powerful.

It becomes like a cannon.