Shekhar Natarajan

The fourth day, I had this deep sense of emotion that, like, I started getting, like, you know, tears.

I started remembering my mother, what I told my mother, like, accidentally that I should have never said.

you know how like you know I probably like you know treat my brother which I shouldn't have and I want to call them and I tell them like you know I'm so sorry I should have done but you cannot do any of that right you're like just internally processing everything and you cannot give out those you know emotions out you have to live with those emotions you have to get those emotions out so four five six were the most horrible days for me yeah

And day number seven, I started feeling slightly better.

Eight, nine and ten were the best days.

And I know a lot of people run away on day four and five.

They literally start crying.

They start yelling and shouting and they want to leave.

So it was an amazing experience for me.

I must have done it like four times now.

And then I also go to this place in Uttarakhand.

There's a Neem Karoli Baba temple.

It's a meditation place where I know the people in the ashram.

So I stay in the ashram, spend like three days.

But I think everyone...

who's running very hard should actually do some sort of disconnect process like this.

Because that disconnection removes a lot of emotional baggage that you carry within yourself.

And the more you release it, the better you feel to go forward.

And it's a very important practice.

And so I want you to contrast the Zen with the Vipassana.