#presence

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

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. Read →

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. Read →

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

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? Read →

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. Read →

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... Read →

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

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

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. Read →

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. Read →

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. Read →

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. Read →

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. Read →

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. Read →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. Read →

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

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

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. Read →