Hello friends, it's me Duncan and this is the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast and today we

have a wonderful guest, Tejo Munich. She was my very first meditation teacher when I was a

student at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. I took classes in Buddhism with her

and I interned at her temple which basically meant I cleaned the temple and I did a lot of meditation.

She's a wonderful meditation teacher and something I love about her and I love about Zen is that

it focuses on the very simple basic aspects of meditation practice. I'm somebody who

likes to start at the end of things. When I first tried to learn piano, I didn't want to do the

scales. I wanted to immediately be a high-level ragtime pianist. That never happened and it's

never gonna happen probably for me because ragtime is really hard to play but the only time I really

started making progress when I was trying to teach myself piano is when I focused on the scales,

the very basics, the very simple, boring, seemingly mundane basics of piano, where my hands go

on the keys, how I'm supposed to sit on the piano bench and just practicing, practicing the scales

over and over and over. And the more I've done that, the better I've gotten at piano though I still

can't play ragtime. Similarly, when it comes to my sloppy, laxed, daysical meditation practice,

the less that I've focused on the possibilities that we all know about when it comes to meditation,

enlightenment, launching your soul out of the back of a slit in your head,

astral projection, telepathy, walking through walls, creating a kind of glowing aura of love around

you that entrances and excites everyone, getting really good at sports because through meditation,

you've learned how to pull yourself into the present moment. All that stuff, the less I think about

that stuff, and the more I work on my posture and a consistency when it comes to my meditation and

whatever books I might be reading about Buddhism or whatever spiritual path I'm interested in too,

the less that other stuff seems to matter. And you realize baked in to the basics is the entire

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