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Is there anything that you struggle with these days personally? Is there, you know, you've done this work and practiced it and taught it for so long. Is there anything you struggle or suffer with in your own life that is still a challenge?
Oh, this?
Yeah, there are challenges.
I'm not good at dealing with practical.
Things so much anymore of life, financial.
Things and so on can feel as a bit of a burden sometimes.
The humans are.
But otherwise there's no suffering. I don't have periods of suffering at all.
That's gone. The urines have. Just being and doing is another way of putting it. The being dimension is a vertical. The doing dimension is horizontal. The two are important. Some humans are more drawn towards doing, creating, manifesting.
Yes.
Others are more drawn towards being, appreciating.
What is and may not have.
May not have many.
Goals to achieve. They might be happy doing their gardening.
Or whatever their field and want. And every human has to find a.
Kind of balance between being and doing. Nobody probably is completely in the middle or it's very hard to be completely in the middle. You're totally balanced between being and doing. I'm always more inclined to. I'm in the being dimension.
And for a few years when I.
Was younger, I experienced a kind of awakening.
I was kind of so much in.
The being dimension that I lost interest.
In any kind of doing for a few years.
Really. It was so. The present moment was so joyful and.
Beautiful and I had no money, nothing for a while. I had no home.
But it was lovely sitting on park benches.
Present moment was so fulfilling. And then gradually I was able to start doing again. And now I am still. I love just be.
Just to be. To contemplate nature or even to just to sit in a room and just be.
But I'm able to do because I. Well, I wrote the books, I do teachings, I travel, so I give talks and retreats.
So I am doing.
Able to function on that level. But the irony is that all my.
