Stephen Park
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I've, um, done ayahuasca, you know, I've done so many things. And I think, um, over, over the years, um, I began to understand the ego. I began to understand, um, identify how, how the ego works and how I like just, just this identification with the body, um,
for instance, is egoic and recognizing that the true self is the presence that is always here and always now and that the body comes and goes and this, my name, my race, everything that you can, all the labels you can put on me all came after what I call I. Like they're not inherently me. this eternal I that we all are. And I think that's what I eventually arrived at.
And so that freed me, that insight freed me.
Oh yeah. Yeah. I was turning stuff down all the time. Um, yeah. So yeah, that was just kind of the norm at that time.
Yeah. I mean, now it's just a completely different scene now. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's kind of amazing.
Um, not that I was like, Oh, I want to be like that. But I remember like Johnny Yoon. I don't know if you remember him. Sure. If he's from Korea. Um, And, you know, I knew I was aware of actors like Sunteco, you know, Pat Morita. You know, I was friends with his daughter, Allie. So George Takei, like all of these different actors who are like a generation ahead. You know, I was aware of them, but.
I think at the beginning of my career, I, I was always like, I want to break new ground. I want to break new ground. I want to do something that hasn't been done before. Also, um, you know, like doing, doing roles without an accent was a big deal, like doing an accent or not doing it. Like that was always like an issue. Um, like that was hard.
That's why, you know, do the right thing was hard for me to be, to have to do that. Um, So it's just been a slow evolution, you know? And yeah, I've forgotten the question.
I mean, I was aware of them. I wouldn't, yeah. It's not like Bruce Lee was my, you know, he was like my guy. Yeah. You know, but, and I was a martial artist. I was really into martial arts growing up, but I entered my career as, knowing I didn't want to do martial arts, knowing I didn't want to just fall into that stereotype. So I actively kind of did not go in that direction.
Um, well, it's amazing, but I still feel like I'm still in it. I'm still pursuing jobs. I'm still, um, uh, wanting to get work. So it's great to see, like, it kind of blows my mind. Like Steven Yoon's success is so, and he, you know, by his own admission, like he's one of these people who just is incredibly lucky, like just amazing luck, um, that, that has happened with him. And, um,
And I think it's really, really great. I do sometimes feel like, wow, what's next for me? What's gonna happen to me? And I have no idea. I have no sense because I don't know what, I don't know how to be this age because I'm just doing it for the first time. And then it always goes back to all of the stuff I learned
in my spiritual journey, you know, which it all points to, well, everything is here, right? Nothing's missing. Um, what's here. There's something from the Bhagavad Gita. What's here now is everywhere. What's not here now is nowhere to be found. So the moment I feel like something's missing or I'm not getting what I want, it's my ego. My ego somehow has been hooked and I feel like, um,
something is unfair or I don't, I'm not getting what I want. It's some narrative that, that has taken hold in my mind. And, and so I, I now have the tools to recognize, Oh, my, my, my ego's hooked. And, and then just to come back to the present moment. So that's kind of what I do.
Well, you know, by now, there's a book. There's a book that was written.
Get your answers now. You don't have to buzz Steven. No, no, no. I want them all. I was interviewed, like, Little White Lies on YouTube. Look it up. There's a whole interview just about. Carve up.
Oh, my God, it's been great. I really was so scared. I was telling Kelly how scared I was. I didn't know what we were going to talk about.
No, it was a joy. Okay, great.
Great to see you.
Bye-bye.
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