Chan (Zen) In The Age Of Smartphone Dystopia

This is a live recorded talk by the wise teacher Guo Gu. Too often, we allow technologies such as smartphones, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and other social media to take over our lives. The commonality of these technologies is the way they cater to and manipulate our deepest needs to be seen, heard, and loved. A very strong addiction underlies these needs, which are fortified by past experiences and strengthened by the illusion that technological devices fulfill them. In this profoundly insightful podcast, Guo Gu explores the need to expose this addiction, accept its true nature, and work with it in order to free ourselves and regain our humanity.

Transcript

I'll see what I'm doing tonight.

Can you all hear me?

Yeah,

It's working.

Okay.

I'm in a lot of physical pain at this time.

My back went out.

If I don't move,

Then it's okay.

So,

To this talk.

Child practice in the age of smartphone dystopia.

How many of you saw the topic of the talk announcement and came because of that?

A few.

How many of you are interested in the topic?

How many of you have smartphones?

Let me rephrase the question.

How many of you do not have smartphones?

As you had to.

Lucky three.

Out of maybe 40.

But really this phenomenon of smartphone is just one instance among many developments in the technology world.

I couldn't list out all the things that are happening.

Facebook,

Google,

Social media,

Twitter,

Snapchat.

There must be something else too.

So it's just one phenomenon that we are living,

Witnessing,

And contributing to this phenomenon.

And the unfortunate thing is we do not have the hindsight to look back in history.

Or the time to slow down to examine what we are experiencing at this time.

So we are part of this transition of I guess paradigm.

Unprecedented paradigm.

In other words,

We are still part of the generation of people.

At least most of us.

Who still remembers landline phones.

So we are not quite there yet where it's completely obsolete.

So we are in this transitional phase.

So we neither have the hindsight to look and examine what's happening,

Nor the time to slow down to reflect on the changes that's happening within our cells,

Our minds,

Our social and political world.

And in the fast-paced society that we live in,

It's indeed very difficult to do that.

And yet,

Practice must continue.

To our practice.

So how do we engage in our practice in the midst of that?

I often speak of practice as involving four phases.

And they are by no means linear.

But they are reciprocal.

And the shallowness and the depth of our engagement with these four stages evolve as we continue our practice.

So the four I refer to as exposing.

Becoming more honest and transparent to ourselves.

Exposing our habitual tendencies,

Attitudes,

Intentions that pervades every moment of our waking and sleeping life.

So exposing.

And embracing.

In other words,

There's a history to why we are the way we are.

And part of the exposing is to understand that,

To see that.

Another part is to accept that.

To embrace this.

And it does not mean letting things,

That is accepting,

Letting things be,

Continue the habitual way,

Patterns.

Accepting here means accepting that this is what we have to work with.

The ones we've exposed.

And we are much more than our habit tendencies and our patterns.

We don't have to follow our habits,

Patterns.

Nor should we try to reject or suppress them.

So that's the second thing.

The third thing is working through.

Really work through.

Because we are propelled most of the time by our habits.

And the mechanism is very strong.

Part of that is fortified by our past.

Strengthened by the way we live.

We need to work through that.

That only comes about when we expose and embrace.

Then we can work through that.

The fourth stage is letting go.

So you can't really let go without knowing what you're letting go.

Nor can you let go without really accepting who you are.

Embracing or working through.

So this is the general four reciprocal stages of practice.

It's ever ongoing.

So in relating this to tonight's topic.

John Blacktis.

The word dystopia.

Do you know what that word means?

Let's share,

Let's discuss what this word means.

Dystopia.

As opposed to utopia.

The opposite of utopia.

Anyone?

It's like falling apart or degenerating.

Or crawling.

Yeah.

There's many nuances.

It's tied to a place like utopia.

So dystopia means an imagined place through which we dehumanize ourselves.

Progressively.

Deteriorating our humanity.

That's the point that you raised about.

Trumbling.

This word imagined place.

Of course,

We tend to think of imagined as something that's not real.

Maybe fantasy.

There's not really the meaning here.

Because all of us here in this room,

We share an imagined society.

An imagined world.

We share an imagined agree upon consensus way of thinking.

We share an imagined agree upon consensus way of enormously.

Social practice.

Including greeting.

Like if I were to raise my fist out to say hello to someone,

Even 20 years ago,

The meaning would be completely different.

Now it's called fist pump.

What's up?

This is a shared or imagined social practice.

Do you see what I'm saying?

We share this paradigm.

And if we have our pants halfway down our butt,

It's not that abnormal.

It's not a particular genre tied to a particular age of people and they listen to a particular type of music.

It's not that boring.

20 years ago,

If people did that,

Maybe you would offer a belt to the person.

But that person doesn't want to have a belt.

It's a shared.

Socially instituted.

Constructed.

Consensually reinforced.

Imagination of what is new.

So imagination is not just a fantasy.

It has that element,

But it's a shared quality.

What I mean by socially instituted.

The smartphone dystopia is completely planned.

Incorporated.

Socially constructed.

Reinforced with marketing strategy.

And we are buying it.

There are techies whose job is to design apps and platforms targeting our need to be seen,

To be heard,

To be loved.

Our fear and anxiety of missing out.

And incorporate these right into the social platforms and the technologies.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

God knows if I missed that last text.

They actually have a term for this.

I did some research.

A student of mine sent me this topic to talk about.

I touched on this during the last 7 day retreat.

She was talking about possibly I can expand on this.

There's a term acronym called MOFO.

Fear of missing out.

Maybe you have heard of this.

MOFO.

I don't know if I got it,

But basically it's the idea that you have some kind of alert on a social media platform.

Or text.

Or some latest news.

Snapchat.

And if you don't respond,

You actually have a little bit of anxiety.

And you fear being left out of the conversation.

Missing out.

Fear of missing out.

So whenever an alert comes,

We feel propelled to pick it up.

Pick up our phone and respond.

Maybe with an emoji.

Thumbs up.

Or some other cute thing.

Expression.

Which is itself becoming a language.

What this points to is us as social beings in a society in which individualism is favored.

But there's no social support for it.

So the flip side of individualism is a feared solitude.

A loneliness that we feel.

Unlike pre-modern time,

In which societies are more founded on network.

So the type of selves that we have is more of an embedded sense of self.

Family structures.

Connecting this with the village.

Or neighborhood.

The type of selves that we are producing and we are conditioned to be is a type of estranged self.

You can call it individualism.

Independence.

But the flip side of that is loneliness.

Estrangement.

And the whole social structure is in on it.

This is the imagined place.

Every institution from your 9 to 5 job to your school to moving out of your home to college,

To new workplace is more estranged.

And our need to be seen,

Heard,

Loved greatly expanded through the media of smartphone.

We have to be,

The word,

The lingo is connected.

We can't not be connected.

We can't be connected.

Advertisement.

For cell phones and so on.

We want to be connected.

So be connected.

That's because we don't feel connected.

We feel disconnected.

We feel alone.

Estranged.

In a fast paced world.

So the techies hark on this vulnerability.

Develop programs.

Make us feel connected.

Not alone.

It's a substitution.

It is not a real company.

Even though the neurological pathways within us may be the same.

When we are part of a cyber community.

When we are recognized.

When we are seen.

When people click on Facebook.

Like.

So the neurological pathways that we experience is the same.

But it is a constructed world.

It is not a real world.

I experience this.

I'm trying to have dinner with my family.

And besides the 5 year old and myself.

The other two.

My wife and my 13.

They are on cell phones.

And they can't put it down.

And sometimes.

My older daughter.

Try to text me.

While I'm next to her.

I'm like,

See I'm right here.

I don't want to say it out loud.

Secret messages.

There's a disconnect.

There's a disconnect.

Even though we are together.

In real life.

We are actually disconnected.

And it's institutionalized.

Through our lives.

Through our friends.

That's the norm.

Through our society.

And because of our neuroplasticity.

Our brain adapting to circumstances.

We are being rewired.

Gradually.

Insubceptibly.

But we are.

It's a very different experience to read a book for example.

And take notes.

With a pen.

On paper.

Different parts of the brain are being activated.

There's a.

Different parts of the thalamus.

Are being activated.

When we actually pick up a pen.

And slow down the process of taking notes.

It's tactile,

Sensational.

There's a time lapse.

And thereby.

The neurological pathways.

Are being integrated.

And have time to.

Register.

The information.

So when we are on our apps.

Phones.

Social media.

Where our typing.

Writing.

Typically less than 150 words.

You know.

And where information is.

Glanced over.

We.

Discipline our brain in a particular way.

And through repeated actions like this.

The neurological pathways actually strengthens.

What kind of neurological pathways?

A pathway that favors speed.

Over nuance.

Over depth.

In our reading.

A pathway that favors.

Fragmentation.

Over coherence.

Maybe narration.

Narrative beginning,

Middle,

End.

We don't need that.

On social media.

We can join in the conversation in the middle.

A pathway that.

Conditions the mind.

To.

Decontextualize things.

And.

Over.

Decontextualize.

Over contextualize understanding.

And.

Also conditions the mind.

To favor.

Impulse.

Impulse.

Because amorphous.

Over.

Controlled.

Tempered.

Responses.

There's probably a hundred more things that's happening that I'm not.

Listing.

But you get the picture.

It's a whole new way of processing information.

And through practice.

Sustained practice.

Every day we're doing this.

We are changing.

Our brain works.

This has profound impact.

Not only individual relationships.

Social.

Relationships.

Even political.

Life.

Where the tweets.

Are sensational.

But they're not.

Informed.

Contextualized.

Analysis of things.

I don't need to mention who likes the tweets.

So it's changing the way the news.

Is.

Being conveyed to us.

Changing the way we are observing it.

All that is part of exposing.

This has direct.

Implications of our practice.

Of our practice.

When we are used to.

Exposing our own tendencies.

Habits.

And the ever present.

Omnipresent.

Tones of emotions.

Beneath our discursive thinking.

In this context of how our lives and the world is being conditioned and constructed.

We.

Also.

Naturally extend.

Our.

Awareness.

Clarity.

Into what is happening within us.

As we engage in this.

Dystopia.

Tones of emotions that.

Arise within us.

Most people are.

Most people are oblivious to this.

They don't have the hindsight to examine this in history.

Nor do they have time to sit down and quietly.

Become aware of this process.

Without condition that way.

But,

Chan practitioners.

Zen practitioners.

We.

Must.

Expose this process.

Within us.

And the shallowness and depth of clarity that you have.

Cultivated.

On your cushions.

Needs to be translated.

Into the complexity of your daily life.

To make Buddha Dharma.

Real.

Not a hobby.

Not part of the dystopia.

But part of the.

Way of life.

The Buddha actually.

Spoke about this.

Of course he didn't use the word dystopia.

He used the very simple word.

Dream.

Dream.

It's like imagination that I spoke of.

We are continually.

Participating in creating.

Institutionalizing.

Our shared dream.

That which is imaginable.

Doable.

Great things.

Happen.

Technological progress.

And I am not advocating.

Some kind of social regression.

No.

But what I am advocating is not to be controlled.

By the technology.

There are much more than that.

There are much more than that.

So exposing.

Is my way of saying what the Buddha taught.

Waking up from the dream.

You have to see the dream.

See how we are actually creating the dream.

Perpetuating it.

Stories and narrations and constructs.

And.

Beginning with ourselves.

And extending naturally to the whole world.

How it's constructing.

Perpetuating this dream.

Of gain and loss.

Success and failure.

Victim and perpetrator.

These binary ways of seeing things.

Exposing this allows us to be humble.

We are humbled by this.

And we become more forgiving.

When we are humbled.

The more shortcomings we discover within ourselves.

Flaws that we discover within ourselves.

The more we actually can forgive ourselves.

And forgive other people when we recognize it in others.

Do you believe that?

Because we do that.

That's all part of accepting.

Embracing.

But know that we are much more than that.

We are not defined by these fleeting habitual patterns.

Constructs.

Or even emotions.

Arise as a result of interacting with technology or mass media.

So we should accept.

Be captivated.

And not try to deny.

Suppress.

Reject.

Technology.

The process of working through.

Recognizing.

Accepting.

And learning to be free.

Learning to be free.

Now recognizing is not a cerebral thing.

You can't do it like that.

Because it's biological.

Body and mind are inseparable.

When we have certain perceptions.

Our body responds a certain way.

So the chemicals are already flowing through our bodies.

So when we work through different addictions.

We have to come at it through the body.

We have to come at it through harmonizing the breath.

And harmonizing our mind.

So body,

Breath,

Mind.

So there's a physiological component to our addictions.

To smart form.

Chemicals are flowing.

And we're the one who's doing it.

Through our perception.

So we have to learn to relax the body.

That's the Chang-Zen practice 101.

What the time keeper Duane was doing in the beginning of the sitting.

The progressive relaxation.

They really mastered that.

Mastered this progressive relaxation.

Because that will intercept the habit pattern of impulse.

And be able to buy us some time.

To respond in a more appropriate way.

So when the body is relaxed.

The breath is more at peace,

Harmonious.

And the mind needs to be clear.

But here,

Clear does not mean like thinking straight.

It's not a cerebral thing.

Based on Buddhist psychology.

The Yogachara system.

There are five omnipresent factors of mind.

Omnipresent means it's always present.

Waking or sleeping.

One is sensation.

There's always contact.

I,

You know,

Somebody,

Mind.

There's always contact.

When there's contact,

There's always sensation.

And it's only three.

Pleasurable,

Unpleasurable,

Or neutral.

All the time.

It's just that most people are not aware of it.

When we have these sensations,

Another factor.

Always present is intention.

That's the traditional Buddhist term.

The way I teach is attitude.

What intention really points to.

It's subtle tones of emotion that's shaping your experience in that moment.

And that's always present.

Even as you hear me talk now,

There's emotion within you.

It could be engagement,

Kind of receptivity,

Openness.

That's a type of emotion.

Or if you disagree,

You're close.

It's a kind of aversion.

Very subtle.

Or suspicion.

Doubt.

Most people are not aware of this level of mental continuum.

For practitioners,

When I say body needs to be relaxed,

Breath harmonized,

Mind needs to be clear.

Basically clear of you don't have too much wandering thought.

But that's not sufficient.

It's to be aware of what you are doing to shape your experience in this moment.

And that is attitude.

Traditional Buddhist term.

Intention.

Does that make sense?

This is ever-present.

So subtle.

I'll give you a very simple example.

If you're in a good mood,

Someone looks at you funny.

You're okay.

If you're in a bad mood,

I look at you funny.

What?

You want to fight?

Maybe something like that.

The actions are the same.

What's different?

Intention.

Or attitude.

That's what's shaping your experience.

That's why when we say in the beginning of meditation,

We say enjoy your meditation.

We didn't say it today,

But relax the body,

Harmonize the breath,

And enjoy your sitting.

That's what we bring to meditation.

So if you're not clear what's happening,

You may be practicing what I call spiritual substitution or suppression.

In other words,

The attitude is still annoyed,

For example.

But now you have collected a whole bunch of Buddhist terms.

Things like compassion,

Loving-kindness.

So you're not dealing with,

You're not exposing,

You're not embracing.

Definitely not working through.

The annoyance is still there,

But now you have more terms.

You suppress that,

You put it right over it.

Like,

Oh,

That's my karma.

That's his karma.

Why he's doing that.

Or,

I have to be more loving-kindness,

Loving-kindness,

Loving-kindness.

Commanding yourself.

Be more compassionate.

Be more understanding.

Don't fight with this person.

So you're not dealing with at the level of the most important part.

Does that make sense?

All you have to do is work on emotion,

The attitude.

Just tweak it,

Dial it in.

Happy.

Or,

If you're used to cultivating joy,

Contentment,

Humility,

Gratitude,

Cultivate.

Change your attitude.

Then,

The experience will have changed.

That's how you work it through.

Do you understand?

All of the Buddhist virtues,

The six perfections,

Or the ten perfections,

Paramitas,

More terms for you.

They're actually emotions.

First,

Generosity.

First,

Perfection.

What do you think generosity is?

Cerebral?

No.

It's emotive.

The kind of giving receptivity,

Openness to others.

That's an emotion.

Presence.

Superficial understanding is to understand presence.

But what's underlying that is the sense of responsibility.

Sometimes we lose sight of that,

And we cause suffering.

It's kind of an ethic.

Moral tones of emotions there.

Patience.

That's definitely emotion.

Diligence.

Emotion.

The kind of clarity that comes from meditation.

That's emotion too.

And wisdom.

Wisdom is not some cerebral thing.

Wisdom is compassion.

Compassion and wisdom is the same.

When as soon as wisdom is expressed out,

It's compassion.

When it lies dormant,

It is called wisdom.

When it is expressed through words,

Through action,

Through thinking,

Mental formation,

It becomes an exercise of compassion.

Why?

Because wisdom in Buddhism does not refer to intelligence.

It refers to selflessness.

So any action out of selflessness becomes compassion.

Even scolding.

Sometimes I scold my students.

Depends.

Sometimes I'm really vexed.

But sometimes it's not out of vexation.

It's not for my sake.

It's for the students.

It's different.

You see?

All six perfections.

And hundreds more.

I've given a class last year on Yogachara,

Buddhist psychology,

At the old TBC.

That whole class we talk about mental factors.

Minds and mental factors.

Basically,

All the mental factors are tones of emotions.

Whether wholesome or unwholesome.

So what we work through,

We're exposed.

What's the second one?

Embrace.

Then you can work through.

When you work through,

That clarity refers to attitude.

From the most fundamental,

Ever-present,

Rudimentary basis of mind.

You start there.

Then you'll be able to let go.

Letting go becomes a natural expression of working through.

It's not like,

Oh,

I'm on the third stage now.

Now the fourth one is letting go.

Any time now I should be letting go.

It's not that.

The process of working through is the process of letting go.

Four phases.

Does that make sense?

That's my bit about dystopia.

Exposing the way we are addicted,

Conditioned by modern technology that gets to the deeper layers of who we are in our humanity and in our potential.

Working through the Chan practice,

The four phases.

Not sequentially,

Linearly,

But it's difficult.

The more we expose,

The more we can embrace.

The more we embrace,

We have to expose other things.

And then we'll be able to work through.

Then we can let go.

So they're reciprocal.

That's Chan practice.

So exposing our addictions,

Exposing our,

The way we have participated in this modern technology based on perpetuating our addictions,

Our patterns,

Our fears,

By giving us reward.

If you do this,

Then you get more likes.

This kind of reward,

Punishment mechanism.

Our vulnerabilities.

The more we'll be able to bring it out to light,

And then we can embrace,

Let go.

Slowly we'll be working through.

I want to read you something.

12th century,

12th,

13th century Chan master.

Master Hong Zhi,

Founder of the silent illumination practice.

Something that translated recently,

A couple weeks ago.

I'll read you a passage.

Won't have time to elaborate fully,

But some of the stuff is already discussed.

I've already highlighted some of the parts.

Here's worth reflecting on.

He says,

Multitask amidst chaos.

He didn't say move to the mountain.

He says,

Multitask amidst chaos.

Manifest in full in places of encounter.

No situations exist outside your mind.

The two primaries of heaven and earth have the same root.

The myriad forms are of a single body.

Adapting to changes,

You can transform freely without being coaxed or manipulated by brown nosers.

This is to realize great freedom.

Travel like the wind.

Illuminate like the moon.

You may encounter things,

But they are not obstructions.

Then you may rest and retreat.

But still,

Shoulder up your responsibilities.

When wisdom flows and the principle is perfected,

Practice will be forgotten and your position will be fulfilled.

You will not be ensnared by needing respect or honor.

And will be able to flow with the currents and be one with the dusty world.

And yet,

Still transcend everything,

Shining in brilliance.

Only then will you know that to continue like this is to practice.

But where there is discontinuity,

There is no practice.

There are several key ideas here.

First one,

The charmed view,

Which is different than a weird condition to see things.

This is all in addition to what I've been talking about before.

The four phases and so on.

First,

Nothing exists outside your mind.

But the way that we experience the world is oppositional.

The culprit is outside.

They are the one doing this to me.

I am the victim.

They are the perpetrator.

Nothing exists outside your mind.

This is the first correct view.

That is,

All of our emotions,

Feelings,

Thoughts,

Reactions to the world are completely ours.

They are merely the world,

Merely our mirror that reveals to us what we need to do as practitioners.

If you don't have the seed of anger,

It would be impossible for you to give rise to anger when someone provokes you.

So they are teachers.

Nothing exists outside your mind.

All the things that we manifest,

We like to blame it,

The responsibility to other people.

That leads to the second point.

Shoulder up your responsibility.

Don't put the blame on others.

Does that mean there is no injustice in the world?

There may be.

If you try to correct the world when you yourself are angst,

With aggression,

Or with your own sorrow,

Self-deprived story,

You are not going to correct anything.

You are going to perpetuate it.

You are going to be completely engaged with the world,

Yet our mind is at ease.

Thus,

He says,

Relax,

Retreat.

What seems to be passivity actually is referring to passivity to our own habit tendencies.

If you are no longer reactive to your own habits,

Mechanisms,

You can actually expose them,

Embrace them,

Work through,

Let go.

In other words,

No longer conditioned by them.

Then you can retreat,

Relax,

Yet still shoulder up responsibility.

Engage with the world.

Does that make sense?

The world becomes our arena to mirror what needs to be done within us.

Then you can travel like the wind.

What kind of wind?

Spring breeze.

Wherever you go,

People love you.

You are like spring breeze.

Not like fat breeze.

It just covers up the smell,

But the stench is actually still there.

Illuminate like the moon.

It's not like the blazing sun.

Like the moon.

Cool.

Brilliant.

Adapting to changes,

Transformed freely without being conditioned,

Fixated to some kind of rigid way of responding to things because of your own narratives of who you are.

Very adaptive.

Then you won't be coaxed,

Controlled.

Nor will you be manipulated by brown nosers.

People that manipulate us,

Project their stories on us.

We don't live in our dreams.

We are waking up.

And we don't live in other people's dreams.

Yet,

We are engaged with the world.

Don't live in your dream.

Don't live in other people's dream of you.

Engage.

He says,

This is to realize great freedom.

Several things I've highlighted.

In addition to the general process of practice,

Four phases,

Or things we need to do,

Especially the exposing,

Accepting,

Working through,

Some tones of emotions,

Letting go.

We have to have some correct views.

Shoulder up your responsibility because nothing exists outside yourself.

Outside your own story of them.

The world.

Your own construct of it.

So,

Our addiction to smartphone,

To technology,

Does it mean we cut off?

No.

It doesn't mean we cut off,

Stop using them.

But we have to expose our tendencies.

It cannot be coaxed,

Manipulated.

Our emotional ups and downs is not dependent on likes on Facebook or dislikes.

Don't live in your dream.

Yet,

We participate.

To do that,

We need practice.

Because this is not a cerebral thing.

Intellectually rationalized.

It's an embodied practice.

There's a level of mastery over our body,

Mind.

It's necessary.

And the depth of our clarity depends on the practice.

To be able to do something about it.

Engage with the world.

Utilize technology.

Not be defined by it.

And once in a while,

We have to do retreat.

Where we are unplugged,

Temporarily.

One day retreat,

Three day retreat,

Five day,

Seven day.

We have to have the ability to do that.

To be unplugged.

See what it feels like.

Then when we return to the world,

We'll have that level of clarity.

Okay?

Any questions?

My pain has diminished a little bit.

It'll probably come back when the talk is over.

When I try to stand up.

So not be defined by your body either.

Most people,

They're defined by smart phone or whatever.

The world,

The condition,

They're also defined by the body.

The body is painful,

You're aggravated.

The body is in pain,

You're annoyed.

So next poor soul comes by and says hello,

What do you want?

These things,

You learn to expose.

Any questions?

You know what to do?

Is it clear?

Good night.

Reviews

What a master! 🙏

Another wonderful talk 🙏🏼

Fabulous thank you.

Thank you. To say I really needed to hear this is an understatement. I will take this to heart. You may have just saved my life and made life so much more pleasant for those around me. Wow! Thank you!

Clear thought in the midst of self induced misdirection. A respite.

Just what I needed to hear.
Thank you, Guo Gu!
🙏🙏🙏

Very clear and insightful

Thank you, as always it was delivered by the universe exactly when I needed to hear

Thank you.
I will enjoy my practice.

Your student Han Kim introduced me to your writings and talks, and I am grateful to both of you. I hope your back pain has subsided!

An absolute must-listen for all beings living in our current times. Also, I took delight in how he kept saying “MOFO” instead of “FOMO,” because FOMO is definitely a MoFo that has us all imprisoned!

A must listen for every modern person caught in the technology trap. A call for a more moderate and mindful living with technology but not controlled by technology.

Always, always, so much to absorb when I listen to this man. I appreciate his talks enormously.

I really liked your points on Individualism Vs. the Isolation that can be caused. The thought of smartphones/media creating spaces designed to address peoples emotions and fear of missing out and the way your brain gets used to this fast paced information exchange really intrigued me.

Do you have a routine to use your smartphone more mindfully? How often do you personally use it?

Namaste

Thank you for waking me up and giving me courage to make the change. Very good!

This was exceptional! So profound yet so simple. Thank you 🙏

An ABSOLUTE MUST LISTEN ❤️🙏👏

So timely... Thank you for sharing!

Thank you, you helped open anothers eyes

Absolutely wonderful
Thank you 🙏🏼

Namaste'
Insightful. Thank you. 💞