2024年7月28日 18:21

Watch for that. Okay. Try that again. There, yep. There you go. Okay. So, obviously, really, really, really, really bad folks, they're never gonna quit. And they're just gonna keep getting worse and worse and worse and crazier and more and more evil. And we know who they are. So, when I was in college, I went to college in Boston, I got a psychosomatic thing where, like, I don't know, basically, like, something went out of whack in my body. And then mentally, I got really sad about it. It was entirely mental, I knew it, but I'm just like, well, you know, this thing in my body is kind of not letting me have the fun in the way that I want to have fun, so, well, what's the point, you know? Like, everything's fine. I was riding up a ski slope, and beautiful. My friends were skiing with me. But, you know, so, and really, like, it was just, you know, a figment of my own imagination, a self-created catastrophe. There was really nothing wrong. And then I went down the ski slope, and I didn't make a turn, I just crashed through some bramble wood, and there I am, lying on my back, looking up at the sky and the snow, and I'm like, this is great. This is the tops. Life is awesome. Then, you know, you gotta, you gotta keep on going, right? It's not the end of it. Oh, that magic feeling. Nowhere to go. I don't like that. And, so, I went to see some doctors. They're like, we don't know what's wrong with you. Try yoga. So I tried meditation. And in meditation, it was very simple. I was spending, my family was spending ridiculous amounts of money, stuff you could buy a house with for a year's worth of education at this university. And I went to this university for the only reason that it had a two-year core curriculum that covered all the major themes of European civilization and science and literature and art and music and such. And then we also read the Tao Te Ching and Analects of Confucius from China. And when I read it, I'm like, nothing in the West can compare to anything in the East. The East is at least 3,000 older than anything you're gonna have in the West. And it's just, it's just, there's all, there's just so much less stuff that's like extraneous draft. It's just so much, it's just direct to the point. It's always direct to the point every single time. Only the point. Nothing but. And it's exactly the point. So then I took this Zen meditation course and, you know, the first day of the course, the instructor's like, yeah, man. It's all attachments. You know, everything is change. There's nothing to be attached to. There's no point. Set yourself free. Let it go. And so that really went a long way for me. I became a much better person for it. But then still, it's like, well, it's not just nothing. Like, this is something. This is all something. So still, I went to school to get the answer, the fundamental, the answer to the question and I hadn't gotten it. Western stuff is great, but no answer there. Ultimately, in the Eastern stuff was great, but didn't really put the tip of the finger on it. And then when I started going down this meditation route, you know, it became the same thing as everything else. Money, money, money, money, money. Blah, blah, blah. And then in one of my my last semester over there, my junior year, fall semester, you know, this professor who was out in her field, whatever, it was a course on different types of meditation. And just for one day, we talked about Falun Gong and she just, that was the only thing she talked about positively. Everything else, you know, they kind of make fun of it. They're like, oh, ha, ha, ha, aren't we so much smarter? Whatever. But this one, she was just like, yeah, it's totally free. It actually makes people healthy. It actually teaches people to be good. I've met these people that actually are really nice people and it's great. And this meditation was Falun Dafa, Falun Gong, and that summer I was still in Boston and I remember that spring and I'm like, yeah, why don't I just check this out instead of, you know, wasting all this shoe leather and greenback on bogus nonsense. Why don't I just go online? Because it's all online anyway. And it was. It was all there and, you know, there was no intricate sets of exercises to learn and just five exercises that you could just learn just from pictures on the page. It was that simple. Four standing exercises in one meditation. Like, you just look at the pictures and you get it. You know, you can download the music for free to do the meditation too if you want. It couldn't be more straightforward. And then I went to the library and I got the book, but even, you know, even more importantly than that, I went to the exercise site that they had over in Beacon Hill or whatever, Boston Commons, and there was a couple of western fellas that were doing the exercises. One of them was a townie, you know, with a Boston accent and one of them was another guy from the east coast, and yeah, like, you know, the Boston guy saw that I was interested and he was like, yeah, man, if you want, I'll drop off. All this stuff is in one book. It's online, but I have a book. I can just drop it off at your apartment. I was like, yeah, sure. And so he dropped it off the next day. I had the book. I opened the first page and on the first page it says, honesty, kindness, forbearance is the characteristic of the cosmos. And I'm like, well, you know, not a single penny. Just pick it up. Here it is. Everything. I'm like, yeah, this is the way it's supposed to be. This is the way it actually is. Like, I knew in my mind that's how it is, but this proved the case. And, you know, and then the rest is the journey of figuring out, you know, looking inside yourself and seeing how to cultivate, seeing what's real and what's not, and all that. It's a lifelong journey. It's great. It's amazing. You see and experience wonders that are beyond your form of comprehension all the time. It's just how wonderful. And, you know, in the Falun Dafa practice, it is, you know, traditional Chinese self-cultivation practice. It's based in the traditional 5,000-year culture of how they've always lived their life and principles of today we call Buddhist principles and Taoist principles. And, you know, it does talk about how there shouldn't be an attachment, any attachment, in self-cultivation. You know, without, there's a phrase, without nothing, it's not really that thing. It's something else, something trivial and completely inconsequential and irrelevant. And so, basically, with all this, you know, different stuff going on in the world, ultimately it comes down to, it's nothing. There's nothing behind it. Smoke and mirrors, you know. And just doing nothing is the best, always the best option, because what that really is, is just all that you're left with is really, truly who you are. Because, you know, purposely doing nothing is not a thing. It doesn't make any sense. It's just the same as purposely doing something, anything else. But, just, yeah, the whole basis of it is self-restraint, forbearance, tolerance, perseverance, endurance, and ultimately it comes down to just being still. Non-action, that's it. Non-action, wu-wei. That's, ultimately, that's how self-cultivation is practiced. It's non-action through wu-wei, meaning no method. So, people may not agree with that. You know, sometimes we have very deep vested interests and we just can't let go of it. But, but, but, but, but, but what? But, but. That's all it is, just a but. It's just excuses. There's nothing to it. There's really nothing behind any of the buts. So, that's it.