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2 years of daily meditation!! 🧘🏻‍♂️🔥 Super proud and excited for more! The space between thoughts has been widening The waiting stops and letting go begins Process is unfolding, slowly but surely The few moments of equanimity sprinkled across the hours of sitting are priceless « The heaven is so vast, no message can stain it. How may a snowflake exist in a raging fire? » Zen master

Vocal booth almost ready 🤩🤯 Thank you so much @argusmundus for building it 🙌🏻👌🏻 and @esteban.design for pading the foam with me 🥰 Can’t wait to sing, scream and keep meditating in this little quiet space 😌🙇🏻‍♂️🤪

1 year of daily meditation! 🙌🏻❤️‍🔥🤪🙏🏻😭🧘🏻‍♂️☸️ Wow can’t believe I did it. Don’t even know what to say. I feel so proud, and incredibly humbled at the same time. (This is the comfy chair I now sit in, and a screenshot of my meditation app showing 365 consecutive days of sitting!) I tried so many new meditation techniques, pushed my limits to reach transcendental states and attain any form of accomplishment, only to realize deeper and deeper that there is nothing to attain at all. I tried sitting at every time of day, for many lengths, from 5-10 minutes minimum, to 4h of combined sits, with my longest one close to 2h straight. I went from feeling guilty everytime I couldn’t finish my usual sit (1h), to being more and more self compassionate and forgiving. I have learned A TON and at the same time nothing. It’s hard to express. I feel like I climbed a mountain, and just took my first step. Like I became an adult and returned to being a child. Like I know more than I ever have, and nothing at all. To sit is the accomplishment in itself. Took me a long time to get that one. I now have a stronger confidence than ever in the awareness of the present moment 👁. The refuge of meditation always available. There’s many things I’ve tried to learn and become skillfull at in life, but mindfulness is by far the most challenging and rewarding one of all! Onto 2 years of meditation, trying to do 2h/day whenever possible! PS: after doing Vipassana, Anapana, Shamatha, self inquiry, and many more, I finally found my fit in Japanese buddhism, Zen, and their practice of Shikantaza, which literally means to « just sit », or « do nothing ». To have no goal and stick to being immobile for an hour is one of the best things ever!

❤️‍🔥 8 years together 🥲 Wow i can’t believe it. This amazing person makes me so happy everyday I can’t describe the joy I experience when we cuddle with each other. Jenn isn’t only my best friend, with whom i laugh, enjoy and discover, she is also the incredibly strong and caring partner that loves me unconditionally, encourages me and uplifts me when i am crawling in self loathing. The amount of progress we have made together over this time to: communicate better, listen, receive, understand, care, reconnect, support and cheer each other makes me cryingly proud 😭 To put it simply, i have admired Jenn ever since we met. She is accomplished in so many areas, i feel like I’m constantly trying to catch up to her. She uses her enormous heart to love but also empathize. She can get pretty much anything done lol. And finally she has a profound and deep understanding of the human condition, which makes her artistic creativity and voice be so beautiful and needed. I’m a sucker for learning, and with You I learn everyday. Thank you for being You when you’re with me, i am forever grateful for this gift. I love you beyond my understanding, with all of my heart. Je t’aime ma puce.

Here we go again! Another 10day silent meditation retreat 🧘🏻‍♂️ Second one sitting, fourth overall. Let’s get mindful up in there. Sending everyone who sees this a lot of positive vibration 🙌🏼 #vipassana #equanimity #joshuatree #desert

Today marks 90days of meditating every morning! Wow I did it!!!🙌🏼😭😂😌🧘🏻‍♂️ I feel super proud of this accomplishment I thought I’d never reach!! (In these pics you can see my view when i check on my posture and my dear fellow pillow) I’ve meditated for the past 5years, but was never able to maintain a solid daily practice. I would always slowly bail after a week. It’s hard to wake up early everyday when there’s less distractions (usually 5:30am), and not feel like I suck because of everything wrong with me, and around me. I want to thank Shane @thegotrom, and Mike @lettingglow with all of my heart, for inspiring me so much to sit with a strong determination. Thanks to both of you I dared aiming high, got this lovely travel pillow for my butt, and felt company everytime I wanted to quit. Your example keeps shining bright for me. Huge shoutout also to my freaking younger brother Gaby who got me into Vipassana meditation in the first place! I first couldn’t sit straight, would change posture every 10min, and enter suffering after the fateful 30min mark when joints start to ache harder. Then i worked in steps, from 15min to 55min, from slouching to « statue-ing », from restlessness to rest. Now, I’m still overcoming these same struggles, but I can sit straight without moving during the whole session, and I actually look forward to it in the morning (mind blown 🤯). It’s ridiculous the amount of issues meditation indirectly brings to the surface for you to deal with once it lasts long enough. Finally after talking about how hard and grim this practice can be, is when i totally recommend you to do it haha 😅😂 plenty worth it. Ask me anything about it! On to a full year of meditating everyday!