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✨*Cancer cracked me open*
This is not a story of survival. It is a story of surrender —
a journey through pain, uncertainty, and awe —
a path of spiritual awakening that unfolds between life and death.
In this intimate reflection, Riyaz shares what it means to meet illness as a teacher.
To be stripped of all identities.
To find nothing to hold on to — and still rest in presence.
From the Redwoods to the body, from childhood wounds to ancestral healing,
this conversation invites us into the raw beauty of being.
It speaks of beginner’s mind, of climbing out of the pit each morning,
and of meeting physical pain as a doorway to liberation.
*This is not bypassing.*
*This is real opening.*
This is rehabilitation as spiritual practice —
and teaching as direct transmission from lived experience.
🌀 *This is an invitation to deepen into the teaching of not knowing*
To not know,
to not be able to know,
and — most of all — to not need to know.
Through this surrender, truth arises.
Through this humility, freedom returns.
There is no one to become, no role to perform — just the pulse of being itself.
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