Mm

... expression of suffering, actually clinging to some solid ground to stand on, where if I'm not Ben the human, I am void, and that's definitely what I am.

We're still holding on for dear life to some identity, and at that point, you're actually not quite fully embracing what I would call sunyata, emptiness, in a mature way.

There's a, a deepening that has to happen, where we see for ourselves that clinging to any identity is a product of fear and induces suffering.

We just need to see that.

Where if I just reject my human identity as Ben, that's not quite honestly even true.

Obviously, there's a Ben here, duh.

Yeah.

it.

Stop resisting the ego.

Stop trying to transcend it.

Subsend it.

Allow it to be here.

The more we push against the ego, the more we're actually solidifying that there's a real thing here to push against.

There's nothing here to begin with.

and