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0:10Imagine you are standing in line at the
0:14grocery store or stuck in traffic.
0:19In an imperceptible instant, without a
0:21conscious decision having taken shape in
0:24your head,
0:27your hand moves on its own and pulls
0:29your phone from your pocket.
0:36The screen lights up, the app opens, and
0:39only after a few seconds do you realize
0:43what just happened.
0:47The mind arrives late, when the choice
0:50has already been made.
0:54In that precise moment, an automatic
0:56force made of well-established habits
0:59and reactive mechanisms manages your
1:02gestures and your attention.
1:08All of this happens because silence and
1:11the absence of stimuli have become alien
1:14, unbearable, inhospitable spaces,
1:20hostile, unsettling, giving us a sense
1:25of emptiness.
1:30Our lovely society has turned rest into
1:34a guilt and constant busyness into a
1:37form of identity.
1:43Every time you try to stop, a sense of
1:46restlessness emerges, an irresistible
1:49need to fill that void with something,
1:52anything, as long as it is something.
1:59The ability to be with oneself and
2:02simply be has dissolved into a
2:05continuous stream of information
2:08designed to capture attention
2:14and fragment presence.
2:20We call ourselves human beings, but we
2:24have turned into human doings, as John
2:28Kabat-Zinn says.
2:31Hello everyone and welcome to Radical
2:33Awakening. I am Dominic.
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2:58for answers and in need of a new
3:00perspective.
3:08Do you know what is one of the hardest
3:11things for us human beings turned into
3:14human doings to do?
3:18It is doing nothing,
3:22sitting still, with eyes open, and just
3:25being.
3:29I like to call it presence contemplation
3:31.
3:33It is a very simple practice or exercise
3:37, but not easy at all.
3:41Try sitting comfortably on a chair or
3:44even the sofa, without slouching,
3:46obviously.
3:50Keep the light on and sit there still
3:53for 20 minutes
3:57and see what happens.
4:00Be there with yourself, you and the room
4:04.
4:07It does not count to start meditating,
4:10reciting mantras, counting sheep, or
4:13anything else that comes to mind to kill
4:17time.
4:21You must have a close encounter with
4:24silence and what we call boredom.
4:32You will see how the ego, the mind
4:35starts to fidget, it will start to buck
4:38like a wild horse that has been saddled
4:41for the first time.
4:46The first time you do it, perhaps it
4:49will come easy—the famous beginner's
4:53luck.
4:55Try doing it multiple times and you will
4:57see what happens.
4:59And each time, increase the
5:01contemplation time by 10 minutes.
5:07Try doing an hour if you want to go for
5:09a real rollercoaster ride.
5:14The ego is laid bare,
5:18you see it for what it is.
5:24The first few times I did it, after 10
5:26minutes, I would have eaten the table
5:28just to do something.
5:32My body stayed still, or at least tried
5:36to, while something inside was restless
5:40, a voice telling me, "What on earth are
5:44you doing?"
5:48At 20 minutes, it seemed impossible to
5:52go on.
5:54By the half-hour mark, I would have sold
5:58a kidney just to get up and do anything
6:01, even wash the dishes.
6:05You know something?
6:09By comparison, when you meditate,
6:11staying still becomes almost easy.
6:15And you know why?
6:17The ego has something to cling to
6:20because it is doing something, which in
6:24this case is called meditation.
6:30Even if you struggle and your mind jumps
6:33around like a grasshopper, you are
6:36trying, and for the ego, trying is
6:38enough to feel okay.
6:43Remove the label and you’re just a
6:45person sitting on a chair doing nothing
6:48.
6:51Then the ego goes into crisis and feels
6:55useless.
6:58Useless to whom? But
7:02stop for a moment on this question.
7:06The room is empty,
7:09no bosses or clients.
7:14Yet you feel a gaze upon you that judges
7:19and takes notes.
7:25Whose gaze is this?
7:29A parent's, an entire era that taught
7:31you to measure your worth by what you
7:34produce, until the gaze moved inside you
7:38and took up residence; it watches you
7:40even when you're alone, and by the way,
7:43it works for free.
7:48So then, what is boredom?
7:53What is this cursed boredom?
7:57And I didn't say joy.
7:59Sorry, a little quote from the Califano
8:03song.
8:07In my opinion, boredom
8:10is a withdrawal symptom.
8:16The ego thrives on stimuli and things to
8:18talk about.
8:20As soon as you take them away, what does
8:22it do?
8:23It protests.
8:25Like someone who suddenly stops, I don't
8:29know, drinking coffee or any addiction—
8:32headaches, irritation, nervous hunger
8:36for anything.
8:39Boredom is the noise of identity when it
8:42stops being fueled from the outside.
8:47Beneath the noise, if you endure, you
8:50find something else.
8:53You have to stay long enough to hear it
8:56. However,
9:03now I'll point something out to you
9:07and after this, you won't be able to
9:09unsee it.
9:10Has it ever happened that you found
9:12yourself with your phone in hand without
9:14remembering picking it up?
9:18You unlock the screen, open an app, and
9:21only after a few seconds you ask
9:22yourself,
9:25"Wait, when did I pick this up?"
9:29There was no decision, nor even a
9:33thought.
9:35Your hand moved on its own, and you
9:38arrived later,
9:40after the fact, as a spectator.
9:45If your hand moves
9:47before you do, who sent it?
9:52A habit with the keys to your house that
9:54decides and then informs you.
9:59You call it willpower.
10:03Neville Goddard said that attention is
10:06the creative faculty.
10:10What you hold it on is what you live.
10:16Read that sentence again, thinking of
10:18your phone.
10:20Someone built an entire industry just to
10:24harvest this very faculty every single
10:27day, bit by bit, and resell it to the
10:30highest bidder.
10:34Hours of attention surrendered to the
10:37stories of others, to unknown quarrels,
10:40to catastrophes 10,000 km away.
10:46Neville would have called them
10:47assumptions.
10:51You tell me how many moods you inhabited
10:53today without choosing even one of them
10:56.
10:59This is why the chair is so terrifying.
11:04Remove the stimuli and stay there,
11:07talking to your inner conversation.
11:13The same one that Neville considered the
11:14cause of everything that happens to you
11:16on the outside.
11:19For years, you have covered it up with
11:21noise.
11:25After 3 minutes, you hear it clearly,
11:27and it’s often a grumbling that repeats
11:30your life as it is now, with the usual
11:32complaints and the usual things that
11:35don't add up.
11:38Boredom acts as a screen upon which your
11:40initial assumption is projected.
11:4610 minutes of nothing
11:49and you know which state you inhabit
11:53without asking anyone.
11:58Think of an actor, an actor on stage who
12:01was never given a script.
12:06Lights on, the audience is full, and he
12:09stands there with the feeling that
12:12someone should prompt him on what to say
12:15.
12:18That feeling is boredom.
12:22We wait for the line to come from the
12:24outside, for someone to tell us what to
12:27think and what to feel.
12:31The phone acts as a prompter on a
12:33continuous loop, and as long as you
12:35recite the lines of others, no one is
12:37writing yours.
12:41Neville used to say that the world is a
12:45stage.
12:47The world is you yourself projected
12:51outward.
12:52Everyone is pushed out.
12:56And you are its author.
13:01Feeling bored means waiting for someone
13:03else to write the script for you.
13:08The phone hands them to you on a
13:10continuous loop, always from others, and
13:12as long as you recite them, the author
13:15sleeps.
13:18In the chair, no script reaches you, and
13:23the author
13:26wakes up.
13:29There is a verse that Neville loved very
13:31much, Psalm 46.
13:34Be still and know that I am God.
13:41Be still
13:43and know that I am God.
13:49For him, that "I am" was your
13:52consciousness, and to know it, you just
13:56need to be still.
14:05We live in an era that does everything
14:07to prevent you from getting there.
14:11By now, stillness feels like falling
14:14behind.
14:17It feels like you’re lagging, as if a
14:19meter were running somewhere and you
14:22were letting it tick away.
14:25You don't even know what it's counting.
14:28But are you sure you're missing
14:30something?
14:33When stopping became a moral fault, I
14:36don't know, maybe it has always been
14:39this way, because the anxiety of the
14:42human condition pushes you to feel that
14:45you must do something, and today that
14:48almost always means consuming.
14:52Right now, however, it seems worse than
14:55ever.
14:58Every minute must be justified.
15:01Even your existence must have a reason
15:04for being.
15:06Rest was once simply rest.
15:11Now it must be earned and documented,
15:14and if possible, turned into content.
15:19At a certain point
15:22Being constantly busy has become a
15:25personality.
15:28And I mean that literally.
15:32People start there.
15:36Ask someone how they are, and before
15:39answering, they tell you how swamped
15:42they are, as if it were their best
15:46quality.
15:49In our society, what you do coincides
15:52with who you are.
15:55And if you aren't doing something
15:58visible, or better yet, measurable, the
16:00question of who you are starts to burn.
16:08Where does all this come from?
16:13Human beings aren't born with a factory
16:16setting that demands constant, anxious
16:20motion.
16:24It’s installed later within a culture
16:28that has long repeated that rest is a
16:31reward to be earned.
16:37The philosopher Byung-Chul Han proposes
16:41an idea that really struck me.
16:47Today, no one forces us from above
16:50because everyone has become their own
16:54entrepreneur, exploiter and exploited in
16:57the same body.
17:01Do you see the sophistication?
17:05What’s the point of a whip if people
17:08whip themselves?
17:10And on top of that, they call it
17:12ambition.
17:16The sense of guilt
17:19when standing still is born from the
17:22system, and it has little to do with
17:26character.
17:29I needed to say this before anything
17:32else, otherwise this video becomes yet
17:34another lecture on how to better manage
17:37your time.
17:41A structure built around you prevents
17:44you from stopping altogether.
17:49The strange thing is that it seems
17:51normal, and that’s how you know it’s
17:54working.
17:59Think about when you sit down for a
18:01second to breathe or rest.
18:07At that very instant, your phone lights
18:10up as if it sees you waiting for quiet
18:14just so it can interrupt it.
18:19Unsettling, I’d say.
18:22Very unsettling.
18:27You open it, obviously, and find
18:29yourself in the infinite scroll.
18:34No one tells you at a certain point:
18:37okay, enough for today.
18:39Go back to being a person,
18:43go back to being.
18:46Why would they?
18:48It would be a disaster for business.
18:52So I keep giving you stuff.
18:55Just enough to hold your attention
18:57without ever satisfying it.
19:01In the background, an algorithm has been
19:03studying you for years and knows how to
19:06keep you suspended halfway, just
19:07slightly restless.
19:13Leaving the situation takes more effort
19:16than staying in it, and after a while,
19:18it seems like life is just made that way
19:21, that the constant motion comes from
19:24you.
19:27Someone, somewhere, is working to make
19:29stillness,
19:32so heavy that picking up a screen feels
19:35like a relief—and it truly is, because
19:39it’s an addiction.
19:47Blaise Pascal, or Blaze, I’m not sure
19:51how to say it, sensed it almost 400
19:54years ago.
19:59According to him, all of man’s
20:02misfortunes stem from a single root: the
20:05inability to sit quietly in a room.
20:10Think about it,
20:13a genius from the 1600s,
20:16without phones or notifications, had
20:19already seen right through us.
20:25We throw ourselves into action and
20:28entertainment to avoid coming face to
20:31face with ourselves.
20:36And you know what?
20:40It still holds true today, with the
20:42addition of fiber optics.
20:48Imagine a shepherd in Nepal or
20:53up in the Andes, grazing in the
20:55mountains.
20:58He spends entire days watching the
21:01animals and the sky.
21:06A podcast on herding?
21:10Not a trace of one.
21:13And that morning routine video titled "
21:16How I optimized my relationship with
21:19goats for maximum personal fulfillment.
21:22"
21:24It doesn't exist, as far as I know.
21:31He does his job,
21:35lights the fire at night, and starts
21:38over the next day.
21:44Many
21:47would react with a bit of pity, right?
21:54Doesn't he feel like he's missing
21:55something?
21:59Doesn't he want more from life?
22:03He should at least have a five-year plan
22:07and a LinkedIn profile.
22:11Where people can worry about him.
22:16The instinct to pity him is a red light
22:19turning on.
22:22The discomfort you feel before such a
22:25simple life
22:28says more about you than it does about
22:30him.
22:34This man possesses something that many
22:36of us have lost without realizing it.
22:41A life that doesn't need to put on a
22:44show,
22:48doesn't curate or optimize, and takes
22:53the morning as it comes,
22:58and just exists within it.
23:02In our culture, serenity is seen as
23:05failure or an illusion.
23:12It closes the gap between where you are
23:15and where you're told to be—the gap the
23:19algorithm thrives on—and a closed gap is
23:22bad for business.
23:27So we call it giving up, or a lack of
23:31ambition.
23:34Slowing down in this society is a form
23:39of silent rebellion.
23:45The entire architecture of restlessness
23:48needs your participation to function.
23:53And every time you step away, something
23:56small but real happens.
24:01It seems insignificant,
24:05but it is a withdrawal of consent that
24:07no one notices but you.
24:14Beneath all this is a fear I want to
24:17name, because it drives more behavior
24:21than we want to admit.
24:25The fear of disappearing.
24:29If you stop posting and producing,
24:32people will forget you.
24:36Honestly, some will—actually, almost
24:38everyone will.
24:41But they were doing that already,
24:43because the feed moves much faster than
24:46you think, and in the minds of others,
24:48you were never as present as the
24:50algorithm would like you to believe.
24:58Being visible and mattering are two
25:00different things, and we have spent
25:03years confusing them.
25:11And now,
25:13in practice,
25:16don't worry, I won't tell you to delete
25:18all your apps and move to a cabin in the
25:21mountains.
25:23That would be another performance with a
25:26few extra steps.
25:29I'm talking about something smaller and
25:32less flashy.
25:35Small, but powerful.
25:39And that is probably why it works.
25:45Take the line at the supermarket.
25:50Those are minutes when your hand moves
25:52on its own toward your pocket.
25:57Leave it where it is.
26:00Then, instead of scanning the neighbor's
26:02cart or the magazines on the racks,
26:07bring your attention to your body.
26:13Feel your feet touching the ground, the
26:16weight shifting onto the soles, the
26:19pressure on your heels, your toes inside
26:22your shoes.
26:27feel your hands, the air on your skin,
26:32the sound of the carts becoming just
26:35noise.
26:40It seems ridiculous,
26:43I know,
26:45and it turns out to be surprisingly
26:47difficult.
26:51That should tell you something about the
26:53state of things.
26:57Yet that queue has become a training
27:00room and no one noticed.
27:05It works
27:10the same at a red light, in an elevator
27:13, while you wait for water to boil, at
27:16any moment.
27:17Practice being present,
27:24become present in the here and now.
27:33The present is the only place where
27:35imagination has a door.
27:40Those who live in the next minute, in
27:42the notification yet to arrive, in the
27:44next thing to do, skip over the present
27:46like a station with no stop.
27:59Let's go back to the chair for a moment
28:02to doing nothing, or rather, to trying
28:06to be.
28:09After the first wave of annoyance, if
28:12you resist,
28:17something changes.
28:20The voice that was judging gets tired.
28:25The body settles, the gaze stops looking
28:29for a foothold and just sees
28:35and the room suddenly becomes big.
28:43Jiddu Krishnamurti claimed that boredom
28:46arises when the mind demands a stimulus
28:49to feel alive and that going through it
28:51without running away and without filling
28:54it opens a space that was previously
28:57missing.
29:02To notice that you are bored, someone
29:05must be standing a step back from the
29:08boredom.
29:11Boredom cannot watch itself.
29:16We always come back to that.
29:20The one who observes it is already
29:22outside in a place where boredom doesn't
29:26reach and sees it pass by like a cloud.
29:31If the cloud moves, it means the sky is
29:34still.
29:37That place has a name.
29:39And Neville repeated it to exhaustion.
29:45I am.
29:49The observing consciousness that no
29:51notification has ever touched.
29:56It was there when you felt useless.
29:59There with the phone in your hand and 27
30:01messages on the screen.
30:05You were looking elsewhere and it was
30:07waiting for you.
30:10For this reason, after the first half
30:14hour in the chair, boredom melts away
30:17and a steady, vast, and perfectly
30:20at-home presence remains.
30:26The system doesn't know what to do with
30:29a person so disconnected and present.
30:39Today's journey ends here.
30:44Thanks for staying until the end.
30:48If you intend to accept the challenge
30:50and sit in that chair,
30:54write human being in the comments.
30:59If instead you realize that the
31:01temptation to fill the void is still too
31:04strong, write human doing.
31:11Obviously I will read every response of
31:14yours, as I always do, and I apologize
31:16if I cannot reply to everyone.
31:24I am here.
31:26And you?
31:28Yes.

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