There’s No Struggle | Alex P #15 | 2.11.22

Alex and Dhammarato talk about changing a goal-oriented perspective into being present right now.

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00:00:00 The ditch is getting shallower

00:01:55 You don’t need any help; events are not challenges or struggles

00:08:29 Looking for love in all the wrong places

00:13:22 Find the smallest unit of win

00:14:36 You don’t have to focus

00:19:08 The order is “one by one as they occur” - no mental gymnastics required

00:23:40 Come out of the rule-following and nurture yourself

00:37:16 So I can just relax? 

00:43:41 Planning for future dukkha is dukkha: just nurture yourself

00:48:08 Be satisfied without answers; let unwholesome thoughts go

00:51:05 There’s nothing to it

00:52:33 Using one thorn to pull out another thorn: hello darkness my old friend

00:58:52 Being a better dog than the dogs; the way of the ancients

01:02:49 It doesn’t need to work out in any particular way