Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Corey Muscarra and in today's episode we're going to talk about letting go and surrendering to the great fall.

More to come on what that means in a moment. First let's settle in together with the

sound of the bells. Okay, so I'd like to start this episode by sharing one of my favorite quotes by the controversial

meditation teacher Chogim Trimpa and he says the bad news is you're

falling through the air nothing to hold on to no parachute the good news is there's no ground. I'll read that again and just

notice how it lands in your body. We can really glean a lot from quotes, poetry, and how they

resonate with us by just feeling into what do we feel on our body when we hear something.

So I'll share it again. The bad news is you're

falling through the air, nothing to hold on to, no parachute. The good news is there's no ground.

So this is one of those quotes for me that I feel a combination of things.

I often first feel a little bit of attention, right? The acknowledgement that, yeah, life sort of just feels like falling through the air sometimes and there's no

parachute it's inherently uncertain, unpredictable we don't know what's going to

come next we grasp for control. We might have it temporarily, but then we're just hitting the face with the reality of, wow, I can't control everything. And so there's that feeling of just falling through the

air no safeguard and moving very quickly through it all and and so around that, like, oh yeah, there's that like deep primal fear that can arise and just gets reinforced or re-validated in that first line.

But then that second line is, oh, the good news is,

there's no ground.

There's no ground.

So you might be plummeting through the air, but you're not going to hit anything.

And this is an interesting one because from the lens of the ego, right, the self, I, me, the ideas and everything I've told myself about how life should unfold.

From that perspective, you're going to get hit by something.

You know, those are the ups and downs of life.

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