May 16, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 16 segments
"You" can never really trust this moment. And yet THIS, here, now, IS pure trust itself. A Friday Zen Live on the unconditional acceptance of what is, why the separate self can never surrender into…
Zubin DamaniaHost
Um, t- this morning I was sitting and talking to my friend Simon Brown in the UK and we were having this lovely conversation.
Like as a human who believes they're a person separate from everything that is, trusting this, this moment, what's happening right now, is not ever truly possible.
You, the separate person, the sense of contraction, that energy of like I'm apart from everything, will never be able to fully surrender or do anything to trust this moment.
It's an idea, by the way, it's an energetic contraction, it's a sense, it's an image, it's a illusion, it's a mirage of separation that arises a- in and as this total and complete perfect unity.
That separate self, that energy of, let's call him Zubin right now, the, the Zubin, Zubin itself cannot trust and surrender to this.
And the second is that that character energetically believes that it's separate from everything.
So there's always some danger, there's always separation, there's always a subtle holding back or a not so h- subtle holding back, a pushing and pulling on what is, on what I call this, all that is, this that's happening apparently, this appearance that's happening now.
And in spirituality, in spiritual circles and all that, people will say, "You can trust this.
You need to surrender to this." And that's, again, like telling a dancing series of lights on a screen that's calling itself Tom Cruise, "Tom, you need to, you need to trust this." Tom doesn't exist.
Um, t- this morning I was sitting and talking to my friend Simon Brown in the UK and we were having this lovely conversation.
Like as a human who believes they're a person separate from everything that is, trusting this, this moment, what's happening right now, is not ever truly possible.
You, the separate person, the sense of contraction, that energy of like I'm apart from everything, will never be able to fully surrender or do anything to trust this moment.
It's an idea, by the way, it's an energetic contraction, it's a sense, it's an image, it's a illusion, it's a mirage of separation that arises a- in and as this total and complete perfect unity.
That separate self, that energy of, let's call him Zubin right now, the, the Zubin, Zubin itself cannot trust and surrender to this.
And the second is that that character energetically believes that it's separate from everything.
So there's always some danger, there's always separation, there's always a subtle holding back or a not so h- subtle holding back, a pushing and pulling on what is, on what I call this, all that is, this that's happening apparently, this appearance that's happening now.
And in spirituality, in spiritual circles and all that, people will say, "You can trust this.
You need to surrender to this." And that's, again, like telling a dancing series of lights on a screen that's calling itself Tom Cruise, "Tom, you need to, you need to trust this." Tom doesn't exist.
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