Wow.

Because underneath the pain and disappointment and frustration and anger and sadness I was feeling, and disassociation, I always had a immense amount of compassion.

I mean, from a young age, I just really always put myself in the shoes of other people and could feel what they were feeling.

And it's has never been lost on me that, like, if I can feel that depth of pain and disappointment or sadness or hope or fear or love, everyone else is feeling that too.

And knowing that, like, because my inner world isn't necessarily there right now, someone else's could be in a devastating place or it could be in a beautiful place.

Let me try and meet them and feel where they're at, because that's really the essence of human connection.

It's not necessarily about words, or it's certainly not about what we look like or where we-

Mm-hmm

That's what your other ear is for.

Yeah.

I have a separate pair of iPods connected to a different phone.

Um, Yeah, no, but I feel what you mean by the over-saturation.

And I think that I definitely see why it can be disheartening, because you feel like, yeah, there's like 1,000 new releases a day or whatever.

But it only ever comes back to you just should be creating what you want to see in the world and making it for fun and because you enjoy the process.

If you did that today, the worry and the fears that you'll be releasing into obscurity, then you might not be making it for the right reasons creatively.

to the old

What do you see as that relationship there between, you know, how you think versus what you think?

Yeah, I mean, another fantastic question.

You know, from that time, I was already aware of my inner life in terms of arising material, right? And when I talk about arising material, I'm talking about mental formations.

So, and you know, for anyone that doesn't know and Buddhism, they'll talk about, they'll refer to anything that arises on the stage of consciousness that could be thoughts, emotions, impulses, reactions, anything in there as a mental formation.

And it's useful to think about them in that way because truly that is the operational system of consciousness is we have the observing self that is kind of watching the show unfold.

And then on the stage of our mind, there's a flow of thoughts that flow by, there's emotions, there's impulses.

there's recursive loops, there's all these new mental stories, everything lives there.

So can you just give a little bit