I love what you say in a guide to
compassionate living we already have
everything we need
whoo that is such a powerful line that's
such a powerful line we already have
everything we mean I really believe that
yeah but you say we have everything we
need there is no need for
self-improvement I'm gonna ask you about
that maybe all these trips that we lay
on ourselves the heavy-duty fearing that
we're bad
and hoping that we're good the
identities that we so dearly cling to
the rage the jealousy and the addictions
of all kinds never touch our basic
wealth I love that they are like clouds
that temporarily block the Sun but all
the time our warmth and brilliance are
right here this is who we really are we
are one blink of an eye
away from being fully awake that is some
brilliant right and where is that from
that is from your book start where you
are a guide to compassion living and
it's actually page three but what do you
mean that we don't need self-improvement
I know that's the only thing I thought
don't need self-improvement
I understand fundamentally what you're
saying that who you who you really are
right is already just fine because you
are that which comes from all from the
source of all things but the idea of
constantly trying to get better even
fail better is something that I think so
like can you call that self-improvement
yeah yeah well you know I'm using
self-improvement they're sort of
derogatory yeah meaning the big self I'm
really meaning there's something wrong
with me and I have
- like I might the way I look isn't good
enough the way I the way I keep my house
isn't good enough I think that's what
I'm getting at is if self-improvement
means that I'm going to be different
than I am now so if the view instead is
that there's nothing wrong here I
haven't done anything wrong but there's
things that that are obstructing me from
really fully feeling that well then
let's just look at those things and know
them completely and utterly let's know
our rage let's know our fear let's know
our resentment you see what I'm saying I
got it and I knowing it listening to
what you say about yourself and letting
some of that negative self-talk go you
know then the fundamental thing is there
it's like the Sun is always shining but
there's clouds and restricting it so
that's why I love that moment in the
plane when if it's raining if it's
pouring rain on the ground and you get
in the airplane and you shoot up above
the clouds and there is that's right
it's always there it never went anywhere
I could never win anything so that's the
that is a classic image for a basic
wholeness or basic worthiness or basic
goodness you know
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