The Dark Night of the Soul

In Buddhist and Asian traditions there's this this you know gurus but also just normal teachers or sengas spiritual communities that you're in people even just a little ahead of you on the path can be incredibly helpful. In his mid 20s he became obsessed obsessive compulsively thinking about his own mortality. At the very end of that how i broke out of that was this moment of high spiritual what i would call selfless compassion where all of my suffering and got very very acute.