Speaker 1: Have you ever felt this achieving everything you ever wanted
Speaker 1: and still waking up empty, like every victory was just
Speaker 1: the beginning of a new hunger. Schopenhauer saw this cycle
Speaker 1: with a clarity that's frightening. Desire doesn't lead you to happiness.
Speaker 1: It leads you to the edge of insanity. And the
Speaker 1: biggest trap in your life isn't the lack of achievements,
Speaker 1: it's the obsession with them, because there's a force inside you,
Speaker 1: blind and irrational, that never rests. Schopenhauer called it will,
Speaker 1: and this will doesn't want anything specific, It just wants
Speaker 1: infinitely without end. You think that when you get that thing,
Speaker 1: you'll finally rest, but you won't because when you reach
Speaker 1: what you desired, the desire doesn't die. It just changes masks.
Speaker 1: You wanted that job, got it. Now you want the promotion.
Speaker 1: Got the promotion. Now you want to start your own business.
Speaker 1: And when you start it, you'll want to expel band.
Speaker 1: And when you expand, you'll want to be recognized, and
Speaker 1: when you're recognized, you'll want to be irreplaceable. There's no end,
Speaker 1: never was, never will be. And each stage of this
Speaker 1: climb convinces you that you're progressing that you're evolving, that
Speaker 1: you're finally getting close, but close to what. The destination
Speaker 1: changes every time you approach it. It's like chasing the horizon.
Speaker 1: With every step you take, it moves away by the
Speaker 1: same measure, and you keep running because stopping means admitting
Speaker 1: that the whole race was pointless, and you're not ready
Speaker 1: to admit that. And here's the brutal truth. You're not progressing.
Speaker 1: You're just trading one prison for another. With each new goal,
Speaker 1: you just change cells and the door stays locked because
Speaker 1: the prison isn't external, it's internal. You carry it wherever
Speaker 1: you go, and you call it ambition, growth, evolution, but
Speaker 1: it's not. It's just the will, dragging you without destination,
Speaker 1: without purpose, without pause. Schopenhauer knew this. He saw the
Speaker 1: world as a theater of suffering, where everyone performs, but
Speaker 1: few admit they're trapped. It's easier to believe you're on
Speaker 1: the right path than to stop and ask grow toward what, evolve?
Speaker 1: For what if in the end, all you're doing is
Speaker 1: feeding a hunger that will never be satisfied. He watched
Speaker 1: the people around him entire lives dedicated to accumulation, to recognition,
Speaker 1: to the relentless pursuit of more, and in the end,
Speaker 1: what would be left exhaustion, emptiness, the feeling of having
Speaker 1: lost something fundamental in the middle of the race. Schopenhauer
Speaker 1: didn't judge. He just saw saw with an almost cruel clarity,
Speaker 1: and that clarity freed him because he understood that participating
Speaker 1: in the game was losing. The only winning move was
Speaker 1: not to play. And there's something worse. Pleasure that goal
Speaker 1: you chase isn't what you think. Schopenhauer realized. Pleasure isn't
Speaker 1: the presence of something good. It's just the momentary cessation
Speaker 1: of the pain of wanting. Like scratching an itch. It
Speaker 1: relieves for seconds, but soon the itch returns, and you
Speaker 1: scratch again and again until it hurts. And still you
Speaker 1: keep scratching because stopping means facing the discomfort head on,
Speaker 1: and you weren't taught to do that. Think about how
Speaker 1: many times you've said, when I get this, i'll be happy,
Speaker 1: and then you get it, and for a brief moment
Speaker 1: there's relief, but it's not happiness. It's just the temporary
Speaker 1: pause of the suffering of wanting. And that moment is
Speaker 1: so brief it barely registers, because soon another desire appears,
Speaker 1: another lack, another emptiness, and you chase after it, believing
Speaker 1: this time will be different. But it never is, because
Speaker 1: the modern world turned this into a religion, the promise
Speaker 1: that happiness lies in conquering, in accumulating, in becoming. You've
Speaker 1: been bombarded since childhood with the idea that you need
Speaker 1: to be someone, need to have something, need to get somewhere,
Speaker 1: and you believe it because everyone believes it, because it's
Speaker 1: easier to believe than to stop and admit. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is a lie. And this lie is sophisticated. It comes
Speaker 1: disguised as motivation, as personal growth, as healthy ambition. It
Speaker 1: tells you that you can have everything that you deserve,
Speaker 1: everything that you just need to want it enough, But
Speaker 1: it doesn't tell you the price, doesn't warn you that
Speaker 1: the more you want, the emptier you become. Doesn't prepare
Speaker 1: you for the moment when you finally get everything and
Speaker 1: realize it wasn't any of this that you needed. And
Speaker 1: while you run, something inside you starts to crack. Thoughts accelerate,
Speaker 1: sleep disappears, Peace becomes a distant memory. You become obsessed,
Speaker 1: compare your life to others, envy those who have what
Speaker 1: you don't, feel fear of losing what you've achieved, and
Speaker 1: gradually your mind fragments. You normalize this, call it dedication effort,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's collapse in slow motion. Madness isn't
Speaker 1: a sudden event, it's a process. An uncontrolled desire is
Speaker 1: the fuel for this process. You start living in a
Speaker 1: state of constant alert, never truly relax, never present, always
Speaker 1: on the next step, the next goal, the next target,
Speaker 1: and this corrodes you from the inside until one day
Speaker 1: you look in the mirror and don't recognize who's there
Speaker 1: any more. You see someone tired, someone empty, someone who
Speaker 1: conquered everything and has nothing. And the scariest part is
Speaker 1: that you've convinced yourself there's no other way to live,
Speaker 1: that this constant anxiety is normal, that this permanent restlessness
Speaker 1: is just part of being ambitious. But it's not normal.
Speaker 1: It's pathological. It's the will consuming you, using you, exhausting you.
Speaker 1: And you call this life, but it's just a slow
Speaker 1: and socially accepted form of self destruction. But there's another
Speaker 1: layer to all this. Most of your desires aren't even yours.
Speaker 1: You want because you saw someone else wanting you desire
Speaker 1: because you learned that thing is desirable, status, beauty, money, recognition.
Speaker 1: You weren't born wanting these. You were taught, and you
Speaker 1: learned so well that now you believe these desires come
Speaker 1: from within, But they don't. They come from the gaze
Speaker 1: of others, from advertising, from a system that needs you
Speaker 1: to keep wanting, to keep functioning. And this system is smart.
Speaker 1: It doesn't force you. It seduces you. Shows you images
Speaker 1: of s sess of beauty, of fulfillment, and you look
Speaker 1: and think, I want that. But what do you really want?
Speaker 1: Or do you just want to be seen as someone
Speaker 1: who has that. The difference is subtle, but it's fundamental.
Speaker 1: Because a genuine desire can be satisfied. A reflexive desire
Speaker 1: never will be because it doesn't seek the thing itself.
Speaker 1: It seeks the gaze of approval, and that gaze is infinite.
Speaker 1: There will always be someone else to impress, there will
Speaker 1: always be a new standard to reach. You desire to
Speaker 1: be desired, want to be seen, admired, validated, and so
Speaker 1: you build an entire life based on appearances, buy things
Speaker 1: you don't need to impress people who don't even like you.
Speaker 1: Frequent places you don't like, relate to people who don't
Speaker 1: truly interest you, all to feed an image, and in
Speaker 1: this process you lose contact with what really matters, lose
Speaker 1: contact with yourself life. Life becomes a performance, and performances
Speaker 1: are exhausting because you can never relax. Someone's always watching,
Speaker 1: always something to prove, and the more you perform, the
Speaker 1: more distant you become from who you really are, until
Speaker 1: one day you don't even know who you are without
Speaker 1: the mask. The search for validation is subtle, almost imperceptible.
Speaker 1: It's in the choice of clothing, in the omission of
Speaker 1: an opinion, in the constant adaptation to the environment. And
Speaker 1: the most tragic thing is that this validation, when it
Speaker 1: finally comes, doesn't satisfy you, because it wasn't directed at
Speaker 1: your true self, but at the mask you wore. And
Speaker 1: when you take off the mask alone in the silence
Speaker 1: of night, you come face to face with a stranger.
Speaker 1: And this stranger is exhausted, because living someone else's life
Speaker 1: is exhausting, even when that other person is a fabricated
Speaker 1: version of yourself. And the worst part is you've convinced
Speaker 1: yourself this is the only way to exist that without
Speaker 1: the performance, without the mask, you'd be nobody. But that's
Speaker 1: the cruelest lie you've ever believed, because deep down, you
Speaker 1: know know you're lost, know you're living a life that
Speaker 1: isn't yours. Know you're chasing things that don't matter. But
Speaker 1: admitting this means dismantling everything, means looking at years, maybe decades,
Speaker 1: and recognizing I was wrong, and that hurts more than
Speaker 1: continuing in the lie. So you continue because continuing is
Speaker 1: easier than starting over, even when continuing is killing you. Inside.
Speaker 1: Modern man is tired, tired of being someone, tired of
Speaker 1: having to prove something all the time. Simply living became
Speaker 1: a luxury because living in the simplest sense doesn't generate likes,
Speaker 1: doesn't generate status, doesn't generate validation. So you reject simplicity
Speaker 1: and embrace complexity, and complexity crushes you. You work to
Speaker 1: pay bills for things you brought to impress people who
Speaker 1: don't even care about you, Chase goals created by a
Speaker 1: society that sees you as a cog, Sacrifice your health,
Speaker 1: your relationships, your peace, all in the name of a
Speaker 1: future that promises to be better. But it never is
Speaker 1: because the future doesn't exist, only now exists, and in
Speaker 1: the now you're exhausted. And the most tragic thing is
Speaker 1: you call this success. You look at this life of rushing,
Speaker 1: of obligations, of constant performances and say I'm progressing, But
Speaker 1: you're not. You're just moving further and further away from yourself,
Speaker 1: trading your humanity for an illusion of fulfillment. And this
Speaker 1: trade destroys you from the inside. The constant demand for
Speaker 1: productivity disconnects you from what's essential. You don't have time
Speaker 1: to look at the sky, don't have time to feel
Speaker 1: the wind, don't have time to simply exist without justifying
Speaker 1: your existence with result. And this isn't life, its mechanical survival.
Speaker 1: It's functioning on autopilot, never stopping to ask why, for what,
Speaker 1: for whom. But there's a breath in this race. Schopenhauer
Speaker 1: found refuge in nature, not because nature is beautiful, but
Speaker 1: because nature wants nothing. A tree doesn't want to be bigger,
Speaker 1: a river doesn't want to be faster. Things simply are.
Speaker 1: And when you observe this, something in you relaxes for
Speaker 1: a moment. The will silences, and you experience a piece
Speaker 1: that doesn't come from conquest, but from suspension. The contemplation
Speaker 1: of nature, for Schopenhauer, was a form of art, and
Speaker 1: art had this power to temporarily suspend the cycle of desire.
Speaker 1: When you look at a mountain, at a sunset, at
Speaker 1: a work that touches you, you forget yourself, forget what
Speaker 1: you want, forget what you need to prove, and for
Speaker 1: an instant you just are. This instant is precious because
Speaker 1: in it you're not being moved by will. You're present, silent, attentive,
Speaker 1: and in this state the world reveals a depth that
Speaker 1: desire always hid. Because desire is noisy. It screams, pushes, demands,
Speaker 1: and in the middle of this noise, you lose the
Speaker 1: ability to hear what's essential. What's essential. It's the wind
Speaker 1: touching your skin. It's the sound of rain, it's the
Speaker 1: silence of morning before the world wakes up. It's the
Speaker 1: texture of wood under your fingers. These are simple things,
Speaker 1: so simple you always ignored them because you were too
Speaker 1: busy running after things that seemed more important. But they weren't,
Speaker 1: never were. And maybe that's why you avoid this silence,
Speaker 1: because it shows you how much you've deviated, how much
Speaker 1: you've traded the essential for the superfluous, how much you've
Speaker 1: invested in things that don't sustain and recognizing this is painful,
Speaker 1: but it's also liberating because only when you see the
Speaker 1: prison can you begin to look for the exit. And
Speaker 1: then comes boredom, that moment when all desires fall silent,
Speaker 1: when you have nothing left to conquer, nothing to prove,
Speaker 1: and there in the silence, you come face to face
Speaker 1: with the void. And this void frightens you because it
Speaker 1: reveals an uncomfortable truth. Without desires, what's left? Who are
Speaker 1: you when you're not chasing anything? Most people flee from
Speaker 1: this silence, turn on the TV, grab their phone, invent
Speaker 1: a new goal, anything to not face the void. But
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer suggests something different. He suggests you stay, that you observe,
Speaker 1: that you allow boredom to show you the truth, because
Speaker 1: boredom isn't the enemy, it's the messenger. Boredom shows you
Speaker 1: that life, when stripped of all fabricated desires, is empty
Speaker 1: of inherent purpose. There's no grand plan, there's no glorious destiny.
Speaker 1: There's only the will to live, blind and directionless, pushing
Speaker 1: you forward. And when you understand this, you have a choice.
Speaker 1: You can keep feeding the will or you can stop.
Speaker 1: And stopping isn't easy because you've been trained your whole
Speaker 1: life to keep moving, to chase, to conquer, to never
Speaker 1: be satisfied. But it's precisely in this stopping that something
Speaker 1: profound can happen. It's in silence that truth emerges. It's
Speaker 1: in the void that the essential can finally be seen.
Speaker 1: Stopping isn't giving up. Stopping is questioning. It's looking at
Speaker 1: everything you're doing and asking does this really matter? Does
Speaker 1: this really bring me peace? Or is it just another
Speaker 1: distraction to avoid the void? And these questions are uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because the answer most of the time is it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: doesn't bring peace, it's just distraction. And admitting this means
Speaker 1: having to change, means having to aband and everything you
Speaker 1: built on false foundations and rebuild this time on something real.
Speaker 1: But the real is scary because the real offers no guarantees,
Speaker 1: offers no security, doesn't offer the illusion of control you've
Speaker 1: clung to so tightly. The real just is and accepting
Speaker 1: this requires a courage that few have. But this courage,
Speaker 1: when it finally comes, brings a freedom you never imagine possible,
Speaker 1: the freedom of not needing anything the freedom of not
Speaker 1: having to prove anything, the freedom of simply existing without justifications,
Speaker 1: without expectations, without the constant pressure to become something else.
Speaker 1: And this freedom, though frightening at first, is the only
Speaker 1: one that truly lasts, because it doesn't depend on external circumstances,
Speaker 1: only on you. But there's something deeper happening here. The ego,
Speaker 1: this character you've built throughout your life, is driven i desire.
Speaker 1: It wants permanence, wants to be recognized, wants control, and
Speaker 1: it convinces you that this is what you are, a
Speaker 1: being who needs to conquer to exist. But that's illusion.
Speaker 1: The ego isn't you. It's a mask, and this mask
Speaker 1: is suffocating you. The ego tells you you need to
Speaker 1: be special, need to stand out, need to prove your worth,
Speaker 1: and you believe it because since childhood they taught you
Speaker 1: that your value lies in what you do, what you conquer,
Speaker 1: what you appear to be. But none of this is real.
Speaker 1: Your value never depended on any of this. You've always
Speaker 1: been complete, you just didn't know it. Letting go of
Speaker 1: the ego's illusions is the first step toward a simpler
Speaker 1: and more lucid life. When you realize you don't need
Speaker 1: to be someone special, that you don't need to prove anything,
Speaker 1: that you don't need to control everything. A lightness arises
Speaker 1: because you're no longer carrying the weight of a fabricated identity.
Speaker 1: You're free to simply exist. And then comes the question
Speaker 1: what's really necessary to live well? Less than you imagine?
Speaker 1: Much less? Society convinced you that you need things, goals,
Speaker 1: achievements to have value, but that's a lie. You don't
Speaker 1: need anything more. You need presence, silence, depth, Existential Minimalism
Speaker 1: isn't about having fewer things. It's about having fewer distractions,
Speaker 1: less noise, fewer demands. It's about removing everything that's not
Speaker 1: essential so the essential can emerge. And the essential is simple,
Speaker 1: so simple, you spent your whole life ignoring it. Breathing deeply,
Speaker 1: walking without destination, observing without judging, conversing without a gender,
Speaker 1: existing without justifying. These things seem mundane, but they're revolutionary
Speaker 1: because they go against everything you are taught. They taught
Speaker 1: you that living is conquering, but living is just being,
Speaker 1: and being requires nothing beyond presence, and presence isn't something
Speaker 1: you achieve, it's something you allow. You allow the moment
Speaker 1: to be exactly as it is, allow yourself to be
Speaker 1: exactly as you are, without correction, without improvement, without performance,
Speaker 1: just being. And in this just being there's a fullness
Speaker 1: that no doing ever brought. Schopenhauer proposed something radical. He
Speaker 1: said that true freedom isn't in satisfying the will, it's
Speaker 1: in denying it. When you stop desiring compulsively, you free yourself,
Speaker 1: not from life, from the prison of will. And this
Speaker 1: isn't giving up its transcendence. Denying the will doesn't mean
Speaker 1: becoming a vegetable. It means stopping being a slave to
Speaker 1: your impulses. It means observing a desire arise and not
Speaker 1: need to act on it. It means recognizing that you're
Speaker 1: not the desire. You're what observes the desire, And when
Speaker 1: you understand this, desire loses its power. Think about it.
Speaker 1: How many times have you acted on impulse and regretted
Speaker 1: it later. How many decisions have you made driven by
Speaker 1: desire and realized too late that it wasn't what you
Speaker 1: really wanted. How many times have you been dragged by
Speaker 1: will to places you never wanted to go. Denial of
Speaker 1: will isn't weakness. It's the power to say no, no
Speaker 1: to impulse, no to compulsion, no to the prison of
Speaker 1: always wanting more. And this no isn't a no of resistance.
Speaker 1: It's not struggle. It's recognition. It's looking at desire and saying,
Speaker 1: I see you, I understand where you come from, but
Speaker 1: I'm not going to follow you, not this time, maybe
Speaker 1: never again. And in this moment, something breaks. The chain
Speaker 1: that bound you to the infinite cycle of wanting finally breaks,
Speaker 1: and you realize you always had the key, you just
Speaker 1: didn't know you could use it. You'll still feel once,
Speaker 1: still have preferences, but they won't control you any more.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to choose. And this choice is freedom
Speaker 1: because for the first time you're not reacting, you're responding,
Speaker 1: and between reaction and response there's a space, and in
Speaker 1: this space serenity lives. And in this space also lives
Speaker 1: your true humanity, the one that's not being dragged, not
Speaker 1: being consumed, not being used by will as fuel. It's
Speaker 1: you finally in control. Not control in the sense of domination,
Speaker 1: but control in the sense of conscious choice, of genuine freedom,
Speaker 1: of peace that doesn't depend on circumstances. Imagine living like
Speaker 1: someone passing through, without clinging, without collecting, without trying to
Speaker 1: possess experience, but don't attach. You engage, but don't lose yourself.
Speaker 1: You participate, but don't identify. This is a contemplative life,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing passive about it. It's active, deeply active,
Speaker 1: but in a different way, because action when it doesn't
Speaker 1: come from desperate desire, is light. You do what needs
Speaker 1: to be done, but you don't carry the weight of expectation.
Speaker 1: You plant, but don't demand the seed sprouts. You offer
Speaker 1: but don't demand return. You live, but don't cling to life,
Speaker 1: And there, paradoxically, life becomes richer. And here's the most
Speaker 1: beautiful paradox of all. When you stop trying to control life,
Speaker 1: it starts to flow. When you stop demanding results, results appear.
Speaker 1: When you stop clinging, things remain not by force but
Speaker 1: by choice, not by obligation, but by resonance. And this
Speaker 1: changes everything. Suffering will contin you. That's inevitable. Schopenhauer didn't
Speaker 1: promise a world without pain. He promised clarity about pain,
Speaker 1: and clarity changes everything. When you understand that suffering is
Speaker 1: part of the experience of being alive, you stop fighting
Speaker 1: against it. You stop asking why me, You accept, and
Speaker 1: an acceptance something opens. Suffering, when understood, becomes a teacher.
Speaker 1: It teaches you about impermanence, about fragility, about what really matters.
Speaker 1: It forces you to let go, to simplify, to return
Speaker 1: to the essential. And when you look back, you realize
Speaker 1: it was the moments of pain that awakened you, not
Speaker 1: the moments of pleasure, Because pleasure lulls you, makes you forget,
Speaker 1: makes you believe everything's fine. But pain wakes you up,
Speaker 1: shakes you, forces you to look, and in looking you
Speaker 1: find wisdom, not the wisdom of bosos Boks, the wisdom
Speaker 1: of direct experience, the wisdom of someone who went through
Speaker 1: fire and came out different on the other side. And
Speaker 1: this wisdom doesn't come from avoiding pain. It comes from
Speaker 1: going through it, from allowing it to transform you, from
Speaker 1: recognizing it's not your enemy, it's your teacher. And the
Speaker 1: lessons it teaches, though painful, are the only ones that
Speaker 1: really matter, because they're the only ones that show you
Speaker 1: the truth, and truth always liberates. And then after all this,
Speaker 1: after having desired, suffered, sought, questioned, denied, you arrive at
Speaker 1: a quiet place, a place where nothing is lacking not
Speaker 1: because you have everything, but because you demand nothing. And
Speaker 1: this absence of demand is peace. It's not the piece
Speaker 1: of paradise. It's the peace of someone who understood the game,
Speaker 1: of someone who stopped fighting against reality, of someone who
Speaker 1: realized that life isn't a problem to be so, but
Speaker 1: a mystery to be lived. And you live without hurry,
Speaker 1: without fear, without the need to be anything other than
Speaker 1: what you are now. The will is still there. It's
Speaker 1: never going to completely disappear, but you're no longer it's hostage.
Speaker 1: You learn to observe it, to recognize it, to not
Speaker 1: identify with it. And in this non identifying there's freedom,
Speaker 1: there's lightness, there's finally rest, and this rest isn't inertia
Speaker 1: is an apathy. It's the peace of someone who can
Speaker 1: finally sit and watch life happen without feeling they need
Speaker 1: to control it, without feeling they need to shape it,
Speaker 1: without feeling they need to conquer it, just observe, and
Speaker 1: in observing, participate, but lightly, without grasping, without demanding, without suffering.
Speaker 1: Schopenhauer saw the world with brutal clarity. He didn't offer
Speaker 1: cheap opism, didn't promise everything would work out He just said,
Speaker 1: this is the nature of existence. You can keep fighting
Speaker 1: against it, or you can accept, and in acceptance find
Speaker 1: a path. The path isn't glorious, has no trophies, has
Speaker 1: no recognition. It's a quiet path, a path of renunciation,
Speaker 1: not renunciation of life, but renunciation of the illusion that
Speaker 1: life needs to be something else. And when you renounce
Speaker 1: the illusion, what remains is the real, and the real
Speaker 1: is enough. You don't need anything more. You never did.
Speaker 1: Desire convinced you otherwise, made you believe you were incomplete,
Speaker 1: that something was missing, But nothing was ever missing. You've
Speaker 1: always been complete. You just didn't know because you were
Speaker 1: too busy chasing ghosts, ghosts of success, ghosts of recognition,
Speaker 1: ghosts of validation, ghosts that seemed solid from afar but
Speaker 1: dissolved as soon as you reach them. And then you
Speaker 1: chase the next ghost and the next, in an endless race,
Speaker 1: without purpose, without arrival, until one day you realize there's
Speaker 1: no arrival. There's only the path, and the path is here,
Speaker 1: is now, and now now you can stop, can sit,
Speaker 1: can breathe, can look around and realize that everything you
Speaker 1: need is already here, always was. You just couldn't see
Speaker 1: it because you were looking in the wrong place. The
Speaker 1: right place isn't out. There isn't in the next goal,
Speaker 1: the next achievement, the next pleasure. The right place is
Speaker 1: here now in this instant you're living, but that goes
Speaker 1: unnoticed because you're thinking about the next one. But there's
Speaker 1: no next. There's only this, and this instant, when you
Speaker 1: really pay attention to it, is immense, contains everything, doesn't
Speaker 1: need addition, doesn't need improvement. It's complete in itself, and you,
Speaker 1: when present in it, are too. Because presence isn't something
Speaker 1: you achieve in the future. It's something you allow now.
Speaker 1: You allow the moment to be exactly as it is,
Speaker 1: and allow yourself to be exactly as you are, without correction,
Speaker 1: without improvement, without performance, just being, And in this just being,
Speaker 1: there's a fullness that no doing ever brought. There's a
Speaker 1: peace that no achievement ever gave. There's a freedom that
Speaker 1: no success ever bought. The simple life isn't regression. It's
Speaker 1: a conscious choice. It's saying no to excess, no to distraction,
Speaker 1: no to performance, and saying yes to the essential, yes
Speaker 1: to presence, yes to silence, yes to the depth that
Speaker 1: only emerges when you stop running. Schopenhauer lived this philosophy
Speaker 1: not perfectly. Nobody lives perfectly, but he lived with the
Speaker 1: awareness that desire is a trap and that the way
Speaker 1: out of the trap isn't satisfying desire. It's recognizing it
Speaker 1: will never be satisfied. And that's okay because the piece
Speaker 1: you seek isn't in satisfaction, it's in understanding. Understanding that
Speaker 1: you don't need to always be in motion, that you
Speaker 1: don't always need to want more, that you can simply be,
Speaker 1: and that in this being there's a fullness that no
Speaker 1: achievement will ever bring because achievements are external and fullness
Speaker 1: is internal, and the internal doesn't depend on the external.
Speaker 1: You can have everything and be empty, or you can
Speaker 1: have little and be full, because fullness isn't in things.
Speaker 1: It's in the relationship you have with things. It's in
Speaker 1: the absence of attachment, in the absence of demand, in
Speaker 1: the radical acceptance that life is exactly as it is
Speaker 1: and that's enough. And when that's enough, something extraordinary happens.
Speaker 1: You stop resisting, stop fighting, stop demanding the world be different,
Speaker 1: and then paradoxically, the world opens up, not because it changed,
Speaker 1: but because you changed and the world has always been
Speaker 1: a reflection of how you look at it. Look with
Speaker 1: desire and you'll see lack. Look with fear and you'll
Speaker 1: see threat. Look with peace and you'll see beauty. The
Speaker 1: choice is yours, always was and always will be. Desire
Speaker 1: will whisper that you need more, but you don't. You
Speaker 1: never did. Free to live, not the life they sold you,
Speaker 1: but the life that was always available, simple, silent, deep,
Speaker 1: a life where you're not hostage to wanting, where you're
Speaker 1: not constantly running from the void, where you can look
Speaker 1: at the void and recognize it's not the enemy, it's space.
Speaker 1: And in space everything can arise. But it can only
Speaker 1: arise when you stop filling this space with noise, with distraction,
Speaker 1: with fabricated desires, when you clear the space, when you
Speaker 1: silence yourself, when you allow the essential to emerge. And
Speaker 1: the essential is always simple, Simple like breathing, simple like
Speaker 1: the sun rising, simple, like the silence before thought. These
Speaker 1: things have always been here, You just didn't have space
Speaker 1: to notice them because the space was occupied with the
Speaker 1: noise of wanting. But now you know. Now you can choose,
Speaker 1: and the choice changes everything. Schopenhauer doesn't offer you happiness
Speaker 1: offers you lucidity, and lucidity at first hurts because it
Speaker 1: destroys the illusions you use to protect yourself. But after
Speaker 1: the pain comes relief, the relief of not having to
Speaker 1: pretend anymore, of not having to perform, of not having
Speaker 1: to be anything beyond what you are and what are you.
Speaker 1: When you remove all the layers or the desires, all
Speaker 1: the masks, you are consciousness, pure and simple, conscious of
Speaker 1: being alive, and that when you really feel it is enough,
Speaker 1: It's more than enough, it's everything. The journey doesn't end
Speaker 1: because there's no arrival. There's only the walking. And you
Speaker 1: can walk carrying the weight of the world, or you
Speaker 1: can walk light. The choice is yours, and every moment
Speaker 1: you choose, not always consciously, but always choose. Choose consciously,
Speaker 1: choose simplicity, choose presence, Choose to let go because holding
Speaker 1: on hurts, and you've hurt yourself enough, already ran enough,
Speaker 1: already proved enough. Now you can stop, and in stopping
Speaker 1: finally begin to live, really live, not on the surface,
Speaker 1: but in the depths where the things that really matter dwell,
Speaker 1: where silence speaks louder than noise, where being is more
Speaker 1: important than having where you finally can rest, and in
Speaker 1: this rest something blooms. It's not happiness in the conventional sense.
Speaker 1: It's peace, the peace of someone who understood, of someone
Speaker 1: who accepted, of someone who stopped fighting against life and
Speaker 1: started flowing with it. And in flowing, everything becomes lighter,
Speaker 1: everything becomes clearer, everything becomes more real. Reality has always
Speaker 1: been here, but you are too busy to notice, busy desiring,
Speaker 1: busy suffering, busy running. But now you can stop running,
Speaker 1: can look, can see, and can finally be at peace
Speaker 1: with what you see. Because what you see when you
Speaker 1: really look, isn't a world of lack. It's a world
Speaker 1: of fullness, not because it's full of things, but because
Speaker 1: it's full of life. And life doesn't need justification, doesn't
Speaker 1: need addition. It simply is, and you part of this
Speaker 1: life also simply are Recognize now, not tomorrow, not after
Speaker 1: conquering one more thing. Now, in this moment, in this breath,
Speaker 1: in this pause between one thought and another, there is
Speaker 1: the peace. There is the freedom. There is everything you've
Speaker 1: always sought. And when the will comes back screaming, and
Speaker 1: it will come back, you'll be ready not to fight
Speaker 1: against it, but to observe it to recognize it for
Speaker 1: what it is, a blind force without destination, without purpose,
Speaker 1: and you don't need to follow it. You can just observe,
Speaker 1: and in observing be free. Schopenhauer doesn't promise you everything
Speaker 1: will be okay. He tells you that you can be
Speaker 1: at peace even when it's not. Freedom isn't in defeating
Speaker 1: the will. It's in letting it pass without following it.
Speaker 1: And when you stop running after it, you realize that
Speaker 1: the silence you feared so much is the place where
Speaker 1: you've always been home.