Matt Kahn
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135 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Matt Kahn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we say that it's and. I loved myself and I took action.
And, you know, truth be told, there's something called chi stagnation where if we rest too much, we get more tired. And so if we're tired, sometimes self-love will say, take a walk.
Also, you know, I remember back when we were going through the pre-COVID George Floyd time. That was a really, really important time for me because I did a lot of learning. I learned about a phrase I'd never heard before called reparations.
And it was during a time where people were talking about racism, systemic racism, reparations about, you know, you pay back communities or people that were oppressed. I'd never heard of that phrase. And I sat there and I thought about it. And I'm thinking about it from this perspective of self-love. And I'm also a public teacher and I'm trying to figure out
what do I say and do at this time without making it about me, which is interesting. And for me, what I realized was that, you know, paying money to a community is one form of reparations, but that every single day, each of us as human beings can pay attention. And it's the act of paying attention and listening that gives course corrective experiences for the people around us.
For example, I always answer questions differently depending on what I've gone through in my experience. And if you asked me what my life purpose, I would have given you this highfalutin. real well flowery poetic response. And during that time in my life, a couple years ago, I looked in the mirror and I realized my soul has been housed in the body of a white male.
And that means that every day I have an opportunity to be the course corrective experience for anyone who's been hurt by a male or a Caucasian person or a white male. And then every day I get to pay attention, I get to listen and I get to offer course corrective experiences for whatever experiences are around me. And it brought my awakening fully into my body and it grounded it.
A couple of things come to me on this. One is that forgiveness is the ability to say, yes, this happened to me. But when I invite forgiveness, and of course the first step of forgiveness is having the right not to forgive. Because it has to be... That's right. You have to be ready for it.
But forgiveness is a way of saying, I'm not going to ignore the fact that while this happened to me, there is also an invitation for me... to utilize the aftermath of that experience to make myself into a person that can inspire and transform other people who have been hurt. Because when we're hurt, we spiral in our hurt.
And so in a lack of forgiveness, we say, I dwell on the hurt and I miss the opportunity to come out of it and to transform myself in a certain way. And something that I've never... share publicly. We both go through so many experiences, and so we're always different versions of ourselves. And this conversation about forgiveness actually, for me, relates to self-realization.
Because for me, self-realization has been an experience I've had. I had many experiences, and people could talk about being in samadhi, and I've been in that state for many, many years. And I thought that that was it. I thought it was it.
And what I've realized, because to realize the divine within you is kind of a part of waking up out of this delusion where we project onto the universe the qualities of our parents and our upbringing. And so when the divine is within me, I don't have these parents suppressing me. And what I realized in my experience is that the divine always calls on the divine to carry out the divine's mission.
And when we think of something as sacred and holy as forgiveness, the reason why people can't approach it is because the one that was hurt is the one trying to forgive. And that the entry point into forgiveness is an entry point to connect to the divine
Now the nuance of this is that there is always a divine above you that you are walking with, that you are accountable to, but that doesn't mean that you're beneath it. That's the misunderstanding, that's the religious wound.
And people that have been self-realized, if they don't realize there's also a divine above and within them, if they're not the divine calling on the divine, because forgiveness is where if you want to forgive, you call on the divine to do it through you. You call on the divine to show you how to forgive. And it's your way of reconnecting with the divine, not just within, but beyond.
And when we don't have these aspects of awakening, when we have one without the other, or we were touched by a deity and religion, but we haven't had the self-realization, or we have had self-realization and we thought, oh, I'm beyond the other. If we don't have both... then we don't see other. We walk by a homeless person and it's a delusion of the matrix. It's a optical illusion.
And really what forgiveness is, is a way to return to divinity because only the divine can forgive. And even the self-realized being, the being that doesn't think they're a being, the being that thinks they're the beyond being, the being who's prior to the word and the sound and who's the one that's here and all that categorical bullshit.
And I think, you know, we talk about acceptance. Acceptance is the peace and the pivot, right? It is, I accept that things need to change in my life. That's what I accept. I accept that the reason why these people act this way in my life is because perhaps I'm meditating instead of communicating, for example.
I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe it's just an idea. And so acceptance is really an act of experience. It's not a passive one. Again, we project our parental experiences onto the universe. So I'm performing my life for a deity in the sky who's critiquing my behavior.
Whatever sky mommy or sky daddy. Yeah. Whatever Santa Claus that looks down with their Olympic scorecard. Oh, you did a namaste to that person who was so mean. Oh, we give you a nine. Solid nine. Oh, with mala beads. Give it a 10. Yeah. And we have an interesting thing where we're in the theater watching ourselves on the screen, and we pull back in awareness.
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