There are 3 ways to eat a banana:
1) You eat a banana but you don’t know you’re eating a banana. You eat your worries, your plans, your to-do list.
2) You eat a banana and you only see the herbicide, pesticide, inflation, tax, etc.
3) You eat a banana and you see all the above, but you also see the sunlight, the raindrops, the earth embracing the little seed that makes the banana possible. Looking deeply, you see the same elements are required to make you possible.
Wow, the banana and you are not so separate.
When you can enjoy this banana, you can also enjoy all the wonders inside of you.
We often feel we need someone or something to guide us on how to live. But if we come back and pay attention to how we eat a banana, clean our room, wash the dishes, we can see the answers are all right there.
They say to grow up believing you can do anything
- build the fastest computer
- cure incurable diseases
- make a car fly
But god forbid you grow up wanting to build a world that is good, kind, and abundant for all.
Apparently doing “anything” only means what can improve the system already built, not change it.
On instagram people are talking about the new earth.
On X people are talking about how weird it is to follow your breath and that people who practice no screen time aren’t going to make it.
Musk is losing.
@ChrisWillx@hubermanlab It’s weird how weird he thinks it is to stay present and focus on your breathing. This is exactly what enlightened yogis have been telling us to do for thousands of years.
The ultimate detox hack is improving your body’s ability to detox on its own! There are a lot of good ways to do this but I think intermittent fasting is the best.
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I quit my job and spent the last 5 years chasing financial freedom—
First I thought it was crypto
Then I thought it was an online business
Then I thought it was building an audience and selling pdfs
Turns out financial freedom is literally eating from trees.
That’s hilarious.
The moment I realized I was truly rich:
6 months after I moved into the mountains, I went back to VN to visit my family. The first 3 weeks I was very sick. There was no fresh air to breath. My respiratory tract was badly inflamed.
One night, while poking my head out the
we become the poorest man in the world, no matter how much possession or knowledge we own.
That’s why to have wealth you must slow down.
It takes time to nurture your relationship with life.
To truly be rich is to be rich in one thing: relationship.
Relationship with our food. Our belongings. Our water. Our people.
With the ground on our feet and the sky above our head.
When we live in a way that robs us the time necessary to nurture these relationships,