#presence

I often say that "what matters is never intellectual." There are few areas where this is more true than in creativity.

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I regularly rediscover the benefits and formidable effectiveness of doing things extremely slowly.

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We often look for ways to avoid suffering. Spirituality is built on the idea that we should accept it.

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In conversations, I find myself uncomfortable when asked "so, what are your projects right now?"

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Many of you reacted to my recent videos on action, goals and karma. Here are my answers to a few questions from the comments.

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Sometimes you feel paralyzed. Because a part of you is pushing for action and sabotaging it at the same time.

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Whether it's hunger, motivation or happiness, what our brain perceives is the variation. This is the principle of non-duality.

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Every moment, every action counts. Not just the ones people see or the ones that produce a result.

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My technique for creating my blog posts or daily videos is as follows: Either an idea comes to me. Then, if I can, I take out my phone and record it right away.

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To understand leverage in finance, imagine that one day you receive a machine with the following property: When you insert €100 on one side, a year later, €130 comes out the other.

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All the notes and videos I'm posting right now are about presence.

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Generally, we do everything to avoid it. When we feel anxiety rising, we associate it with a problem, a fear, a goal, so we act. What action will make it go away? When action isn't enough, we try something else. Or we take it personally. Another failure.

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I'm currently doing a series on meditation in my daily videos . From the start, I've been using these videos to reinforce concepts I've understood intellectually but don't apply enough in daily life.

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To achieve presence, you must have faith that full immersion in the current action will naturally shape what comes next.

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Lost in life? Not sure anymore where to go, what to do, what goal to pursue? Place your attention on the present. Tired? Not feeling yourself? The sense that you're not where you should be, that you're wasting your day?

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And yet I meditated this morning. It's a quieter day—well, not quieter, lots of things to do, but not too much work. But there it is: bad mood. Maybe the flight back. Maybe the food. Nerves unwinding.

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I'm blown away by the relevance of my posts 😎. For me, only. I realize two days after posting a video , or three days after adding a note right here, that the content in question answers exactly the question I'm asking myself right now. But like...

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This morning's rain made me realize that some seemingly superficial stress can run much deeper than expected.

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Books, recordings and apps that have been most important in my meditation practice and my understanding of Eastern philosophy.

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Meditation is about bringing your attention to the present moment. The arm. That tension in the neck. The bird singing. A thought arising. A sudden feeling of sadness. That shifts and disappears. The foot against the ground. The breath. The bird, again.

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I've discovered that I work like ChatGPT. And you probably do too. Meaning that my next action is essentially determined by whatever context elements I happen to have in my head at that moment. And, like ChatGPT, that context is minimal.

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Verbal thought is just commentary. ( We've talked about it. ) It's not what chooses the action. No: it observes and comments. A bit like a babushka sitting all day at the foot of a building: "Did you see that? They chose to raise their right arm again.

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Everything is so clear when I'm present. When I'm curious about the moment, when I inspect the colors, sounds, and sensations that come to me... The world is no longer mysterious. It's no longer frightening. Stories of success and failure seem far away.

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When I wake up in the morning, I don't know. I have things to do (" what "), like everyone else, but I have no idea how I'm going to go about it. And I think that's the secret.

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It happened to me for the first time the day before lockdown. I'd been meditating for two years and that morning, almost by accident, I stopped the voice in my head. No more inner chatter, no more constant judgment, no more anxious rumination. Silence.

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Since the future is impossible to predict, every action should be guided by instinct and excitement rather than intellectual planning.

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The illusion that prevents presence: the idea that the current moment doesn't really count and is merely a passage toward a destination.

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The ego isn't a flaw to be rid of, but a relationship between two ideas that we choose to create ourselves.

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We think we act for others, to be kind, to help. But secretly, we're working for ourselves and our own satisfaction.

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The most important thing I've learned in recent years: to stand out, you need to build a system. Here's how.

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You can optimize the wrong things. You can accelerate in the wrong direction. You can be overwhelmed by work that leads nowhere.

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I had stopped drinking. It had decreased naturally, then when I became aware of the hereditary nature of the phenomenon and the place it held in my social life—groups are built on addictions, I realized—I almost completely stopped.

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When you look at how the physical and mental work together, you realize the body is kind of like the mind's notebook.

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The strongest emotions arise when we feel ignored. So much so that much of what we do seems designed to prove we exist.

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I think the festival went so well, both in terms of the connections I made and my film, because I was fully present. I decided I would continue meditating every morning, regardless of my schedule. I stuck to it.

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I'm going to make a kino (72-hour film) on Tuesday at the Off Courts Film Festival and I have no idea what I'm going to do. This isn't bad news—quite the opposite. When I show up empty-handed, with nothing but my wits, it means I'm confident.

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If we worried less, it would be the great liberator. I'm not talking about suicide. I'm talking about perception of life. A large part of the anxiety we accumulate comes from our tendency to take everything seriously.

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People joke they would do nothing if they could. Most would be unable to face the anxiety created by this void.

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We picture a Buddhist monk sitting in lotus position in a quiet room with candles and running water. In reality, you can meditate while walking through a construction site.

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The mind seeks, finds, and solves problems. That's its nature. It's all it knows how to do. If you ever find yourself at the summit of the mountain you've always coveted; the view, light, and temperature are perfect; it's the accomplishment of a lifetime.

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Problems are a function of who we are. By changing inner dispositions, we transform our relationship to external circumstances.

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In 2022, I filmed a 10-minute improvisation video every day and posted it on YouTube. In 2025, I’m starting again!

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If Sting repeats it three times in his song, it must be important.

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There's something for scientists as well as beatniks. The common theme: reality isn't what you think. Let's dive in.

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Keeping a journal boils down to one activity for me: describing the obstacle. Not solving it. Just bringing it to light.

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For English speakers, three articles I've read over several years about death described by healthcare professionals. I've already discussed the first two, but upon reading the third, I thought it was worth compiling a little anthology.

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I don't choose what I write.One morning, I realize that my comedy-drama screenplay isn't progressing. The new scenes are dragging, predictable. Even the corrections I make here and there don't seem to be heading in the right direction. It's a mess.

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A touch of the blues on the highway. No reason. Then I understood: nothing exciting was waiting for me. What if that was actually fine?

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I'm coming to think that only presence matters. Not right or wrong actions, but good or bad reasons to act.

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First, let me be clear: I'm not religious in the slightest. Yet, over the past few years, I've discovered a certain spirituality within me.

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Two pillars of Buddhism recently explored through the wonderful book "Seeing that Frees" by the late Rob Burbea, listening to the lectures of James Low that I discovered recently, and tirelessly through the recordings of Alan Watts, who never ceases to...

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We often forget the people who make our lives easier.We dwell too long on those who cause us problems.

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Reactivity is a prized skill in business. But outside of emergencies, reacting fast often means acting before thinking. What if we just... stopped?

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Don't think of elephants! Too late. The more we fight a thought, the stronger it gets. What if the real solution was to stop fighting?

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For 48 hours, whenever I felt like doing something unnecessary, I didn't. A Stoic experiment in observing how the brain reacts under pressure.

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I type faster when I focus on accuracy instead of speed. How many areas of life suffer because we try to go too fast?

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Change the world, maybe not. But you'll stop bugging me. 1. No more "bon appétit" at every turn At the table, with your family, with your friends: have a blast.

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We internalize certain external gazes and spend our lives reacting for someone who isn't there. Recognizing this is the first step to freedom.

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Yes, it's a cliché, but I've recently experienced it in a very personal way.

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I stopped watching the first episode of Wednesday half way through. (I tried to go to the end, I promise, I even stopped then resumed it). But I want to take this opportunity to tell you what I really liked about Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family.

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Our habits are a boon and a curse. A boon because we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. We can rely on the routine we've built for ourselves: the same actions, performed in the same order, produce the same results.

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Not so much resolutions as general principles that I've discovered and explored in the past years:

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In meditation, progress means recognizing more and more of our inner contents as thoughts. Even the ones so familiar we mistook them for reality.

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