Dharma talk EP4: You Were Never There
"Every best moment of your life, you were never there."
What does it mean? Consider your most profound experiences: laughter that made your stomach ache, dancing until time disappeared, standing silent before a mountain or the sea, or holding someone with nothing to say. In those moments, the sense of "I am experiencing this" was absent. There was only the happening — vivid, alive, effortless. No narrative, no observer, no commentator.
That absence was freedom.
Your most alive moments happened not because of "you," but in the absence of "you."
You were never there. And that is why they were beautiful.
And from this seeing, freedom flows like an endless, gentle river. You don’t need to chase joy. You just need to get out of the way.
#Siamstr
