Hey guys, Lately I've stumbled across a realization on the nature of what has limited me in my communications with others, and now I feel I can start to drop them and live life from a different self or social context. In a nutshell, I've seen that a lot of the ways I interact with others comes down to feeling like I have to hide a true expression of myself. This was NOT something I consciously thought of, in fact, I can often say the opposite! I'm one of the types of guys who can yap on and on about honesty and authenticity and things like that, coming from a sort of Cheng Hsin influence. Yet, I've noticed in my patterns a sense that I can't fully open up to others for fear of... Something happening? Like I always have to be the nice, cheery, upbeat "love you" type guy. And I have that, to a degree, yet a big part of how I interact with others can come from this, and I'm now starting to see it as limiting, or unnecessary. When I am busy being "that person," I feel I am one step removed from that other person, as well as them being one step removed from me, so to speak. I feel that that's a powerful realization in my communications, because I feel it really opens me up to communucating in a whole new way, that i haven't really done in a while. Even more importantly, I feel I can become more authentic and honest with myself, and begin to orient my perceptions and actions toward the truth instead of whatever I'm simply trying to chase after. As a side note, isn't that interesting? What we WANT can steer us towards any direction. If I only stick with what I "want", I could've just as easily kept pursuing being this charming guy and not made any breakthrough on real communication. It's starting to seem better to pursue what's true instead. From "within us" or "without." Might take some courage, but I feel I'm starting to walk the path. Thank you guyz

Excited to share the big news for all Russian speakers in the Cheng Hsin community: The Book of Not Knowing is now available in Russian (digital edition)! You can get it here: https://offers.chenghsin.com/book-of-not-knowing-ru Another language edition joins the BNK family. 😊

Exciting news! The latest Ralston Newsletter dropped. Volume 89. In it are some valuable questions and answers that will really help people in their journey of increasing consciousness. Also a huge shout out to @Dimitar Biserov for creating a SEARCHABLE ARCHIVE of past newsletters which you can access at the link below. He has also extracted all of the Q and A from each newsletter and added that as a tab inside the archive. Check it out! https://chenghsin.link/skool/ralston-newsletter

Hey guys, A couple weeks ago I came back from the spring retreat, where we did the ending suffering workshop, and i wanted to share something that has dawned on me since leaving and applying the work to "my life." That this living "drama" I have about wanting to work hard and complete this and that but not wanting to do it is all an idea! I mean yeah, no shit it's an idea, but it's literally just the effect that I'd live within as a constantly thought thought that I don't need to think and I can just be one with enjoying shit and working. Its that easy. It started with me going after what was immediate, that there is a suffering here that I can cut that out and stop making excuses FOR it. So I really started to and have been thRowing myself into it, and the funny thing is, is that that opens up. It didn't just end with what I immediately thought it would, ergo the immediate suffering. Coming from the more complete place, I started to see life from this way, and then I sort of dropped this "drama" idea and have been working AND enjoying myself, more unified in that that's ACTUALLY what I want to do. A little flavor of consciousness in there, if you will. Anyway, I just wanted to share that. I look forward to any gleaning new insights or breakthroughs available. Much love

🤯🤯😵🪦 ✅️ Done Big up to @Brendan Lea for his amazing work! And to the whole team: @Jakub Holý , @Charlie George Williams , Isa, @Niklas Lederer , John Palmer, Brodie Blackburn, Malcolm Simpson, Noah and James. Peter, we love you too! ♥️