Daniel Wentsch

People who start drinking at a young age (13-15) are more likely to get addicted to alcohol, no matter if their families are alcoholism-prone. Even if there's a history of alcoholism in the family, a person who waits till their early 20s is less likely to become addicted to alcohol. If you drink consistently (even in small amounts, like one drink a... See more

Tantra’s radical reformulation at this time can be summed up in the iconic line from one of the most utilized Buddhist texts, the Heart Sutra:

“Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.”

This is true non-duality, where it’s realized that seeking and celebrating oneness and rejecting duality is its own form of duality.

So instead of rejecting the world and

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Good spiritual teachers will annoy you by telling you it’s not what you think , and now, I see the precise reason why. The experience is primarily characterized by the vanishing of one small limiting part of your mind—precisely the part that does things like, say, wanting spiritual experiences to happen so that life will be different*.* Thus,

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Instead of thinking of yourself as a separate object from the world, like a pinball in a machine, it’s maybe just more accurate to think of yourself as a drop in the ocean. This can be a scary idea, in the sense that it forces you to confront the arbitrariness and flux of existence. But it can also be a relaxing alternate frame—it’s a way of

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Here’s a tool you can immediately try out to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and push back the stress response in real-time:

The physiological sigh.

It’s simple:

• 2 inhales through the nose (one long until you feel you can do no more, and then a second small one)


• 1 long extended exhale through the mouth


• 1–3 times