Tim Bui and I, in this Jan 14, 2024 recording, talk: potency, awakening experiences and processes, removal, identity, ego, embodiment, depression, emotions, wounds, transmutation, visions, clarity, spiritual practices, teachers, Vajrayāna Buddhism, retreats, healing, Mexico, self, not-self, existence, Buddha nature, nothingness, interconnectedness, weak(ening) goal barriers, doing, non-doing
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About Tim
I had my first transcendent meditation experience at the age of 13. Since then, I’ve been a disciple under the greatest Buddhist masters of our time. I’ve been initiated under the Dalai Lama and other top tier cultivators of the world and been trained in foundational up through the highest yogic tantras.
As a 25+ martial arts teacher and practitioner I bring the value of embodied teachings and philosophies of the East + my direct experiences through meditation into my coaching and my vision for impacting the world.
As a serial entrepreneur I’ve built, scaled, and successfully exited multiple businesses. I aspire to bring my practical business experience in combination with my spiritual and contemplative background to help shift the world into the most inspirational and connected world possible.
As a biohacker for more than a decade, I aspire to share what I’ve learned along the way to help people connect to their highest physiological expression of mental, social, physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
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Audio: Catalysts For Awakening And Change Series: Potency And Experiences With Tim Bui
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Hess welcome welcome welcome Josh Dipple from integrating presence today here with Tim buoy Tim what’s going on
today Josh thank you for having me uh in your space on your show um what’s going
on today well uh it’s been a really good day I would say so thanks for asking uh I just I was sharing with you on direct
message that on the 11th I had a Awakening experience so that’s still very new I feel like a like a baby in a
lot of ways now so yeah we can dig into that or yes I definitely want to get
right into that but before we do who is Tim buoy and what does he do oh yeah
let’s let’s get into that so um the best way I can answer this right now what do
I do I guess is this is a proverbial question people are always interested in is uh I do coaching um it’s particularly
Flow State coaching so it’s just like how do we increase like somebody’s potency of who they are based on their characteristics based on their nature
based on these aspects of themselves that they’ve been experiencing their whole life and a lot of times people
when they’re raised they’re not they don’t get good mirroring so like they don’t understand and fully and wholly accept their strengths and their
weaknesses and all these things and like weakness is not in a bad way but it’s like to embrace them because they’re also when you embrace them they become
your power your strength because you walk with it and it’s different nobody can like you know Target that and and
take anything away from you because you’ve already embraced it so like there’s that whole fundamental aspect of
just um holy embracing yourself and I think when that happens a natural flow with how we
interact with the world around us and ourselves starts to come to form and there’s less sort of friction in
life um and then beyond that it’s just like how do we increase the potency in the things that you’re doing in your
life whether that’s business whether that’s the relationships that you’re in and things like that and so I use like
neural linguistic programming techniques and many other different meditative type of techniques breath work and things
like that to really go deep and maybe sometimes we’ll like remove a lot of it’s a lot of a lot of stuff is like
removing removing beliefs removing things that you think that you should do
because of the feedback that you got or like maybe like healing wounds and things like that because I think
personally that the only thing that really drives us before we awaken is is
our wounds and so like unless yeah that’s pretty much it
so I would to agree that you know in in traditional Buddhist language I came
through the duad door you know with our wounds is a really good way to put it to that it was this kind of catalyst for
awakening this drive this momentum this impetus to to to to seek something out
because it was in such a bad State and not knowing how to mend wounds and things like that very well put so yeah
and it’s a very American question to like like what do you do you know yeah people Americans get right into that
right away and other parts of the world it’s not that important or whatever but so so let’s just jump I love this notion
of potency you talk about too um because I don’t know why but it just really
resonates with me uh potency because there’s so much water down I don’t know
that’s not a word you know what I mean it really is so uh and we just flooded
by information as well so tuning into her potency I think is really cool so if
you want to pick up on that and then you can just hop right into your recent Awakening experience I’d like to hear
about it yeah of course I’d love to share it so with potency it comes from this idea that so there’s two types of
meditation in general I think like when we talk about the meta of of all meditation it’s either you’re on this
side and you’re you have this single point of focus and there’s a subject and object and you’re subjectively objectifying everything and it’s just
like very intensely focused and then you have this other aspect where it’s the opposite where it’s just you be become
wide open like the sky able to hold everything and in this one the experience and how I relate that
to potency is if you drop some food coloring into a
glass of water eventually that glass of water will turn red if you drop that red
food coloring into the ocean it will just dilute itself and dissipate until
it becomes nothing and in the process of meditation what you see
is that your thoughts they sit on this thing and they become nothing and then the opposite side of that is like when
you’re not in meditation well you have like this IDE experience of what’s
happening the experiences and it’s actually happening in my experience the
opposite way like we’re we’re in a container and so there’s food coloring and so it’s like how about we move
remove all the impurities that prevent that food coloring from being complet
completely red and so it’s just a process of removal like I said to create
that potency because there’s all these things if you want to be red that prevent it from being red it’s murky
it’s brown for some reason when you mix a bunch of food coloring in some it just turns brown right until you add so much
in that it’s just black so that’s just the idea of potency and and I think like in a very metaphysical sense but we have
very pragmatic techniques to get to the practicalities of things it reminds me of distilling too uh when something is
distilled right yeah so in a in a roundabout way I guess but
all right so uh yeah it’s it’s it’s good metaphor good visual I like it
now now what about this Awakening thing that you’re tell me about
so um the best way I could describe it as this analogy came to me this morning
is on Christmas day you have a beautifully wrapped gift and uh
somebody’s put a bow on it and that bow is representative the self it’s
beautiful like there was effort put into it there’s intricate details it’s not just like a you know like a shoe Not Bow
it’s like a whole you know um almost like woven and weaven like thing where
it’s like this beautiful like almost flower right and I think in a lot of ways the self is like that where we
decorate it with you know like how it would decorate our space you’ve got like this nice little Asian wall divider
thing and these pictures right and so it’s like you have this this uh aspect of Aesthetics and
Beauty right and in my experience of Awakening it was
like it would it it felt like metaphorically somebody just pulled on that ribbon and then the bow became no
more and so that 3D bow it just had nothing to sit on and so it just became rivid and the ribbon if you just let it
on the floor just and then and then if you just didn’t have a ground for it it would just continue to do this and so my
experience of of life now I would say is more like I don’t know if you see those
like Instagram commercials or like YouTube commercials of like those Mis pans or those nonstick pans and they’ve got those like the egg on it it’s like
flipping around and it’s just like barely on there I feel like my experience with like rigidity or or
it kind of has that sort of nonstick feel or it’s like I can feel it but it just doesn’t stay on me it just kind of
just it’s just nonstick so that’s my direct experience of of life right now
and it’s still unfolding there’s a lot happening it’s only been oh it’s 111 it’s only been a you know a couple days
and so I’m really just getting used to it um I could talk
to you about the realization that I had I could talk to you about the process of it I could talk to you about the history
of it of of my cultivation so there’s lots of ways we could go about this but just to answer your question very
directly I think that is my experience of the Awakening in a very metaphorical way well very cool yes it it reminds me
like um water off a duck’s back uh the Teflon thing is nice that’s like yeah
it’s there but it’s not experience isn’t as sticky and effective absolutely uh so
yeah what else what else would you talk about that as far as process or did it come in an experience was it more
gradual was it a sudden thing as you know um uh what else is there anything
uh else to say yeah so I had my first transcendental experience when I
was 12 or so and something in me was like just curious about meditation I think I was
listening to like Bruce LEP in on PBS at the time and I was like oh the mind is so cool and he talks a little about meditation and stuff he’s really like
the uh primordial Joe despenza know he’s been around for a while and they use a
lot of the same language and Concepts and so I was very interested and I didn’t know how to do it so I just want
to Google and it said how to meditate and then I found this Zen meditation and it was just like well you just breathe
in and out through your nose and you count and I did that not for too long and I started noticing like this
evenness between how much my breath went in and how much my breath went out and like it started to reduce
as like the mental activity started to reduce and it came to this point where it was like just a little bit in and a
little bit out it wasn’t like these full breaths it was just like a little bit and I just like and then eventually it
just went to this point where it was equal where like just a little bit was going out and just a little bit was
going in and my mind became like still and I almost felt like I was not breathing from this point on I probably
was and so um I had this experience where I just
totally you know stepped outside of my 3D body my mind and I was just in this
realm of Blackness like the void you know just like nothingness yet at the same time
while there’s nothingness I had all these thoughts of like you know had these deep thoughts about life I was
kind of depressed when I was when I was 12 uh as people tend to be when they’re into meditation at such a young age and
so hell thoughts about life and and why I’m here and like as soon as I asked like there was just like clarity about
it it wasn’t even like an answer it was just like as soon as like it’s just like that Drop in the Ocean where like it was
just completely diluted and it was like the question was put to rest there was no need to answer that question and I
just sat in this space for what felt
like you know 15 minutes and it was I remember that it was like 4:00 or so in
the day and when I got out it was dark it was night time so it had been in the space for like three hours and I was
completely mind blown and uh you know it was a very traumatic experience too because I didn’t have any language to
describe it anybody to talk to about it um and uh it’s a transcendental experience I mean like how do you go
back to real life after that um and so the reason why I bring this up is because I feel like from that point and
today I’m 35 I always like have my eyes like a little bit open you know like I saw the
other side of the veil but I didn’t I wasn’t fully there you know and there’s
this this sort of friction about like oh but I want to get there and it’s like this friction about like oh I shouldn’t
be dealing with these tough emotions like I’ve already experienced that these are just nothing or whatever and uh
ultimately on the 11th what happened was I had been for about I committed you
know I had some things in my life that would catalyze this but I I committed to basically 10 days of just full immersion
of just everything I’m doing is for the intention of depth of processing my wounds of dealing with um like embodied
energy I had like a lot of you know to keep this conversation very short like repressed Sexual Energy um because of
like shame humiliation guilt and you know cultural conditionings I think as
well and I think there was a lot of we’ll say like uh generational trauma
within within me that I was EMB within my my body and I hadn’t recognized that
and every day the process of like just feeling into it and one funny thing I’ll
say is I for a lot of my life I’ve always been into sacrifice and
transmutation so every move i’ make you know whether it’s starting a new business or leaving uh leaving the city
that I I grew up in I would find the thing that was most valuable to me and I would just sell it get rid of it so that
I can open up that space and so in this I was realizing like I’ve been holding
on to this for so long let me transmute this and I was like let me put it into this space of safety and groundedness
and and all this and then and then I came to the realization like 10 minutes of doing this as the energy was releasing I was like when when an ice
cube melts it turns into water and then if you leave it long enough it turns into gas on its own like nobody has to
do anything it doesn’t have to what I’m doing is I’m just putting layers on top of stuff right and it’s just like these
layers are just capturing it again another way in a different form in my body or whatever so I was like what I
need to do is liberate this I need to liberate this to do whatever it wants to
do whatever it’s meant to do give it back because it doesn’t belong to me and allow the the laws of nature of the
universe to just govern where it needs to go because it’s not my job to tell it or do anything with it and then when
does that happen notice these waves of energy come through my body and it was like just very
like powerful waves and I was like oh what are we G to do with this how long are we going to be here for I was like I’m going to commit to 30 minutes I
don’t care what happens the space in this 30 minutes let’s just let this ride and so I just like having these visions
and seeing um like when I was bullied as a little kid because when I was like six
or seven I had a surgery and um because of the surgery I was in the hospital for
a month and I think it took a lot of my vital energy so I became like throughout
the years like two years smaller than my peers you know like when there I was in eighth grade I looked like a sixth
grader or something like that so I got bullied a lot but I didn’t really talk to anybody about I just made the decision I’m just going to keep this
inside and you know that there’s just all this repressed stuff that came up and so in my Visions I was just
reexperiencing these and reprocessing and I think that whole 10day period was
just about processing all these things that were in my body cuz I processed them in my mind already like with the
beliefs that were in installed and things like that but there’s like a somatic experience of this energy being
somewhere and I just through the meditation when I come to these points of of of of of depth and Clarity I just
can feel it like in my body as experiences the self you know this filter how experience things that I was
just letting all It Go and then I realized that the when we talk about wounds the deepest wound that we have is
the experience that we have a self so that is a wound because that activates
everything else and once I noticed that I just saw that wow like that just undid the knot like where we have these neural
networks of experience where it’s like oh I’m moving my arm and I feel this and oh I’m doing martial arts and I feel
this and oh I’m talking to somebody or I’m making love and I feel these things and but you’re just activating different layers of the default mode network of
your experience your nervous system and what’s going on with your heart rate and all these things they’re just all interl
and as soon as they’re interl they go and then they’re because they’re uh because there’s such a pattern of
them existing then it’s just like oh this is this is what’s happening and so you have the neural network and then you
have your experience of the neuron Network and then this creates the self and then it there’s just it’s almost
seamless but then when you meditate there’s a little space in between and the more space you create that it’s like oh this is a neural network and this is
the The Happening that happens at the same time is no longer like oh this is me this is me I’m strutting around or
this is me shopping at the grocery store you know whatever so that was my experience of of uh a short very very
short version of of the the The Awakening it’s beautiful uh and it goes
back to what you said at the beginning about a lot of it is like discarding instead of adding on to it
and then once we kind of get out of the way like you’re saying too the um these these natural
processes can just take their course um a lot easier I feel like like the the
water metaphor and yeah this whole notion of self I’m fascinated by it and
I I ask a lot of people that I interview and people that are really into spirituality about self and you know
what you’re saying that’s been my experience I can uh see it more as like
a series of Interlink processes you know that arise and fall due to causes and
conditions that’s one perception of seeing these things and and seeing the separation of how the body you know I’m
not the body and not the not the the feelings or the perception or the you
know the thoughts or the Consciousness even that that all these things can be sused out and examined and they’re
they’re not what we think they are they’re not like locked into place and for me it’s like when we form an
identity around these things of this is who I am you know this is me and this
I’m made of this and this is the way it is and it’s it’s this this is it you
know uh it’s a setup for disappointment and suffering a lot of times you know stress exactly but at the same time you
know we can still be who we are whatever that is you know and not have to be you know completely spaced out Psychonauts
all the time either right but uh yeah it’s it’s a beautiful thing and so um
yeah if you have more insights on that I also want to ask you about um you
mentioned martial arts and I would be curious about hearing kind of if you have a formal meditation background too
and then if you were just during these 10 days did you just go into a solo Retreat or how did you do it so I think
I put enough on your plate there yeah three questions so first one well answer the the third one first because it’s a
fast one I was by myself I just I had a I was in Mexico and I came back and I
came back with this Fierce fever and I had um experienced like cold sweats I’ve
never experienced before I experienced uh pins and needle Sensations That Grew like through all all my limbs I thought
I had autoimmune issue I had head pressure I was dizzy I didn’t have my sense of balance and I had this crazy
itchiness all over my body but no rash no hives so once I healed from all that
like I was just going through like you know when you’re in a fever like all these things are burning off of you and I had like this this lust and all these
other like things that were just in there you know like that I hadn’t experienced and then I was like this is pointing to some some some deeper things
that I need to take care of so um after that that whole illness went away I was
like let me just commit to 10 days at home and so I basically ate because I didn’t want to spend I love cooking but
I didn’t want to spend too much time doing anything else and I just wanted to be able to encapsulate like oh I see the
mailman like this is part of this experience you know I’m I’m immersing everything into it and what I saw was
that um if I could spend less time cooking and doing these mundane things and like kind of activating those those
traditional things so I just ate bread you know and almond butter with a little honey on it that was my that was my
thing I guess I was unintentionally vegetarian um so yeah that answered that
question now with martial arts um since I was seven I’ve been training and I still train to this day so I do consider
myself a martial arts master I’ve trained in many many many different types of martial arts from the East to the West
and I’m very proficient I’m good with knives and weapons and guns and flipping people and you know all that stuff um
so I think that answers that question and then I think think there the second half of that question was do I have a
formal practice I um for about four years I studied with a Buddhist Master
as well and I was pretty much on the hook 247 so like anytime I received a
message or or anything or teaching it’s always a teaching I call we call a message but it’s like something is coming up and you know he’s ask he’s
showing us something or whatever we have to respond right away and um so there’s
that and then he he’s he’s a vajana practitioner so you he he taught a lot
of things I was not prepared to learn you know like oh what do you do if you’re looking to reincarnate after you
die like you know just things like that like how do you be a bodis saava like I’m not even you know
at that point I’m just I’m just this this scum of the earth guy over here just doing terrible things and just
totally non virtue and um and so he he really straightened me out I was a
before that I was a I was a heathen was the worst of the worst H long story about that we’re not
going to talk about it or not in this space right now but um he taught me how to meditate he
taught me he gave me a really good analogies he gave me logic like this new
neural network of of karma of virtue of Dharma and like to process and distill
all this in this neural network to understand the way of being the way of being kind and why that makes sense how
that makes sense so like installing this as like the first principle the foundation so that everything from that
is just like the fruition of of of this logic of this base of like how it makes
so much sense and like nothing else makes sense to me now it doesn’t make sense to be jealous it doesn’t make sense to
you know like steal from people like it just like you know like because I took care of this root Foundation that he
gave me and so I had that and you know I had experiences with empowerments
received from the D llama and various other Buddhist Masters as well so you know there’s this tantric aspect that I
received during this time as well and um I think I’ve had Med you saw talk about
insight timer I used insight timer since I was very young maybe I was like 14 or something and I was one I use it every
day listen to Tera Brock and all these other people that and learn meta and vipasa and body scanning and I didn’t
learn the open eyed samata type of meditation you know I did go to Zen
Retreats growing up as well um I was lucky enough to be sent by my parents against I would will but uh I learned
open eye meditations and I think that’s what I was more practicing most recently in the
last eight months and just on my own and uh I would listen to a guided notation
by Michael Taft he’s a great great uploads every week he’s amazing they’re free definitely want to pay homage to
him one day because I was listening actually to his meditation when I had my Awakening so um that was very
powerful um I believe there’s one more that was caught in the middle of all that I don’t remember exactly what the
question was ah I can’t remember I guess we going back to the beginning there
with if there’s any other insights on self not self uh things like that yeah
no you pretty much answered everything I threw out there I you know I want to share
something with you a reflection that uh as you’re describing the process of your
your understanding I see your understanding is like very embodied like you’ve done a lot of the work to realize
what you’re saying and I see like this F I see a I see a knot and when you
brought up something I don’t know exactly particularly what what it is at the moment cuz so much has passed between the time that you said it but I
feel like once you resolve that like I feel like you’re going to be very close if not there as well or if you’re not
already there I don’t know but like there was a I felt like a minor very subtle uh almost point of contention or
like conflict that in the something that you said about the self-identity and like the experience of that how that
creates suffering like I feel like you’re like once that thing whatever that is is resolved I feel like
you self made disp well yeah whatever that is to begin with
right yeah no the I appreciate the the compliment there and uh reflection yeah
just I I felt that from you yeah I like I’ve had a daily practice since 2012 you
know so it’s a it’s a big part of uh my routine in life and training and you
know just the way I go about things too and yeah the embodiment is a lot easier
in formal meditation doing mindfulness of body right it’s still I there’s there’s a long ways to go with um I
guess carrying that down the street dayto day but yeah that I would say there’s there’s probably some
realizations especially when I look back at the beginning of my practice and even before it of course yeah that it’s it’s
not all just hot air paring stuff from books although I can do that too you know so there’s two things like one
thing when you say that is like I noticed that um and within myself too which is like
sometimes we may be a lot closer than we think but then there’s the conditioning that like as soon as you grasp onto that then it’s like can become like the
identity too like I’m there or I’m almost there it’s like that could be like something that we have to dance around or or whatever um and then also
in that belief is like it may take like you know it’s going to take this long or it’s going to take this long from now or
whatever that is and that could be El Limited and then also that um I mean like to
distill all that down is like I’m going to do it for however long it takes but if I’m close then cool but it doesn’t
matter because even now like I still have to do things I still have to meditate and now it’s like I’m doing
tantrick more I have a access to that now because I have this space that I can create for beings to come in like on a
whole different level so like now that’s that’s a new FR it’s not like it’s I’m done after that you know so it’s like we’re going to be I mean I’m going to be
doing this forever I’ve done probably done this for forever and that’s just it
so that’s the one thing I thought came to me too is when you were talking about how young your experiences were then I
was like well I don’t know if you’ve got to past life memories yet but to me it it strikes me as you’ve already done
this in in past lives quite a bit but I have no idea you know that’s not based on anything whatsoever but uh you know
and then you know who is who’s who’s this who’s trying to get rid of the self or you know um realize the the not self
nature you know it’s this classic question too of like well if there’s not self who gets reborn
reborn That’s a classic Buddhist question right I’m not necessarily throwing that question to you but you’re
you’re you’re you’re welcome to run with it if you want but yeah we could definitely like so uh I had the day
before my Awakening had a sitting with the source right so the source is in my
vocabulary it’s everything and anything that could be and it’s existed before
beginningless time so the reason why it exists is because I
you know it’s just an idea but the idea is that when everything is when
something is everything it’s also nothing because you if you point at everything you’re also pointing at nothing at the same time right like
there’s no difference between everything and nothing it’s like let’s talk about everything okay well we’re also talking
about nothing like there’s no thing that you can point at and
so there is the amination of all experience of all vibrational frequency that’s happening and I sat with that and
I saw when I sat with Source it was reflecting back at me this image of yeah this is a dude this is a man and in that
what I’m starting to see now is crazy as I’ve gone through this process of Awakening but everything’s a fractal like I see like people say that but I
see it very clearly and I saw looking back from source that
I am a fractal of the greater Collective behind me and when I say greater Collective you know people say this
thing or whatever I simplify as just this is the the meme of our timeline like all the memes of our timeline
that’s the collective and it could be internet memes it could be cultural memes it could be just you know just
things that we recognize and we’re like Ah that’s a that’s a thing that’s a expression you know in English we don’t
have many of those in French they have tons of those and you know there’s certain languages like ah that thing and uh as I sat with Source I saw
that and then I saw um also
that the since everything is emanating from Source it’s like I just saw like
this vision of like vibrations solidifying and when you when
I think of that the representation of that is a crystal a crystal it representat at a certain frequency and
uh when you have something that’s resonating a certain frequency and you have something going through it like it will tune to that frequency but there’s
also other frequencies that are coming off of that so you have this interaction of energy and these interactions of energy create other energies and so I
think like it’s just like this downward process of things being created from other things and I think that’s what we
are is we’re this thing that’s being created from this other thing which is source and like through this limited
filter of this body of this Define
self because I can’t be everything because then I’ll just be Source right so through that is through the limited
means of my existence is this creative expression of who I am and what I can be
and I think that is a very unique and special thing grass is not blue grass is green
so like we all have our nature everything has its nature and it’s just meant to be expressed and I think all
these things that get in the way of that is the self and all those other ideas is like it’s not us not being able to
naturally Express what our we’re here for what our gifts are who we are what
we are and I think the thing that awakens is that that is born which is
like I’m in this meat suit and I get to own this Meats suit you know I’m not seven feet tall I’m not three feet tall
like I am me as I walk in this Meats suit I have my biometrical or like my
the way that I I do things my energy and you know all these things and it’s going to attract the people and that’s going
to attract the the things that we do as people that in my life and the you know the the joy that we experience all those
things are just kind of a symbolic or signature repres like it’s an energy
signature and then that energy signature is matched with other energy signatures that are alike and then it creates whatever it’s going to create just like
how in the beginning I said all the energies interact and in that same way it’s very
fractal and then what awakens is in a very Buddhist context I think like
Buddha nature and and so like you know there’s different schools of Buddhism or whatever but like vajana is a school
that talks about Buddha nature and like there’s not just the shocking Mooney Buddha the Buddha of this time but
there’s infinite Buddhas and actually we’re already Buddhas and we just don’t realize it and then and it’s like oh
what does that even mean it’s it means that like inside of us is this Buddha nature this quality this always been
talking about qualities in nature right it’s like it’s already there but it’s just covered by all this stuff and like
even right now I don’t can’t say that I’m a Buddha but as I sit and I do these practices these tantal practices like
maybe I sit with Buddha and I take in his nature and we turn that into something that becomes a part of my
nature right and the more I do that the more I become the Tim Buddha or whatever right so um what awakens is is that that that
true nature that true nature is always wanting to be revealed because I kind of look there’s another
great analogy I’m firing all the these analogies at you right now
uh what does it mean to be a self it’s almost like you have this experience of
like there’s a bubble around you or like a condom around you and like naturally if you have a condom around you or a
bubble around you you want the full and raw experience like whether that’s an in ineffable thing like so subconscious
that you don’t even realize it or not like you want pure joy you want pure sadness you want the pure experience of
the thing itself and a lot of times like you have an experience like oh this reminds me of this other time or like oh
man I can’t wait for like the next thing or you know all these other things that are happening like you can’t experience
the per thing but like the pursuit of happiness is basically the pure thing like it’s not happiness it’s not like
the car it’s not the job it’s not the wife it’s not you know all those things it’s just the pure experience that is
the pursuit of happiness and so like that is innate within us like we want that we’re born with that and then we
lose that and then that’s the rest of the journey is how do we get back there so I think that’s what’s Awakening is
the pure experience I like that the analogy is great you know and I think so
we’re even talking about different layers here like a a really strong ego layer and then once that gets thinned
out then there’s just maybe more of an existential experience of what this self
still is after we’ve kind of discarded all we can and yeah it’s such a fascinating topic you know and because
we can’t just you know get you know get arrested or something and say okay Josh um
are you there’s no Josh what are you talking about there is no Josh there’s there’s no you know that’s not going to fly right we still have to remember like
our social security number whatever and put on our pants and when we need to you
know these things like that yeah well cool that’s such a funny
idea there’s no Josh I don’t think that would go over too well but probably not
well it’s been cool and a fun conversation here and very helpful
metaphors imagery here to understand a lot of this stuff and it’s it’s it’s a great time so Tim let me know about and
the audience know about where they can find you online if you have any events coming up um how people can get in touch
with you if they’re interested in coaching you know if they want to take a martial arts class maybe or anything
courses whatever you want to draw people’s attention to be it on uh online
in real life and then what would you like to leave us with the audience here with
okay so first thing is if any of those things call to whoever’s listening uh
whether that’s you want to ask me questions or you want to coach with me or you want to learn some martial arts
from me whatever those things are you can uh direct message me on Instagram that’s the easiest way if you don’t have
an Instagram um I will also drop my email so my my name is Tim and then my
middle name is d i n is a November H and and then my last name is B is in Bravo
UI so that’s my full name and the reason I give that is because that’s my name on Instagram there’s no spaces or anything
it’s just timd buy and then my email address is hello timd buy.com
so do that you know rewind do whatever you need to do to get that if you want to reach out to me and contact I’m very
open about my whole life about anything and everything I love just sharing like whatever I can and um and if it makes
sense that we work together or whatever like I’m more than happy to to share whatever that process is like for that
person or would be like and then as far as what I would oh yeah and then what
you know whatever I have coming up um I’m really this month I’m really focused on creating content I have been really
getting into astrology lately and we’re in a Capricorn new moon and Capricorn for me is is in the fifth house which is
like this house of communication expression so um I’m just really going to be working on um sharing my
experiences as of late um I I do plan on probably potentially doing like putting together a workshop so you know
anybody’s interested in any of those things like follow me or contact me and I can put you on a list or you know we
can keep in contact about that um and then I also have like a Blog
where I share like a lot of deep topics and you can find that on my Instagram it’s a public Instagram so you don’t
need an Instagram account to look at my Instagram or to look at the the link which is like the that that houses all
the other links and so in that is going to be my YouTube channel which I provide a 12we free breath work program that’s
really amazing and um what basically what it does is it allows you to attune
to your body’s natural biorhythm or heart rate variability and um you know
when we do mantras or any types of practices like this that’s basically what we’re doing is we’re breathing at a
certain frequency at a certain pace and we’re kind of interjecting our nervous system with those mantras the energy the
vibration of those mantras and so this is a very secular way of doing it um you just turn on a timer and you breathe
according to the timer for 20 minutes and I just go over different things that you can do so that’s all free um and
then you know in my my content there’s a lot of things that I share about um realizations that I’ve had and things
like that so if people are interested in those types of things it’s available on my blog or just on my Instagram
um and then to leave the audience with something I think
I think I think it’s something that came up in our conversation is like we’re closer than we think to what it is that
we want and I think often times at the outset of a
goal if we feel like it’s far it’s going to be a long road uh whether it is going to be or not I think preparing for a
long road is great and but if we spend too much time preparing we may miss the window of opportunity for experiencing
what that is and I think about like a a backpacking trip or you know the conditions are only good for so long
there going to be rainy or whatever so you can only spend so much time preparing for a super long trip or a sailing trip across the world or what
you know whatever that is and so I think understanding that like the barrier
around us or separating us from our goals is probably a lot thinner than we
think and it doesn’t mean that you know tomorrow it’s going to happen and we have that expectation or anything but
just be open to experiencing what that might be on the other side of that because it’s probably like right under
your nose because I think there’s a there’s a there’s a difference between like non-doing and doing and in the
non-doing space it’s like you’re already doing like what’s natural for you you
don’t have to try to do anything you don’t have to try to break through you’re already doing it so just allow
that to just do its thing and you’ll already be there it’s just inevitable because you already want to do it it’s
like you know you have to do it you’re forcing yourself to do it you wake up every morning your legs hurt and you’re
just like it’s just this miserable experience you know just enjoy it and and because you’re you already have this
drive naturally within you to do it and don’t do things that you don’t want to do and then they’ll get you out of that so that’s the
message well badass advice Tim and thanks again for joining and may all
beings everywhere realize Awakening and be free bye
now
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