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Contemplative Currents Podcast

Gentle reminders, mindful contemplations for those seeking to explore the depth and essence of our being, the glorious Mystery that we are. seyekuyinu.substack.com

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7:41

Pray. Not as prey

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2026/01/24

I want to start this by expressing my immense gratitude for the outpouring of love from my last post. I received dozens of private messages that I am holding so tenderly in my heart. I still am. You see, when I look at my life honestly, without doubt, I see how generously it has been held. Oh, the words of support! Thank you! You know, I could never in a million years have dreamed or willed myself to what exists in this experience of living— a family that cares so so steadily, a career that feels

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13:08

Choosing to love, no matter what

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2026/01/18

I am currently bracing for a season of solitude, putting structures in place for minimal physical interactions with the outer world, keeping documents and important paraphernalia in easily accessible locations, making sure I can easily access emergency contact while figuring out guardianship for Milo, my doggie roommate. In this space, I have also been exploring, as practice, deeper levels of what it means to be free within. In the confines of my own home, projecting the safety within to the chaos

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18:25

The Mirror and the Dance, the World and Perception

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2026/01/07

When I’m not so heavily caught up in my own life drama or sulking over how incredibly harsh the world seems to be at times, when I’m not doomscrolling from under a blanket curled up like a deplorable fetus lost in the narratives of news around the world and my existential fears, brewing like a moka pot that’s about to boil over, is seen through, I enjoy playing with the display and dance of form through the events, circumstances and opinions that flood my way. Perhaps this short essay is an

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9:12

When we seek, we find Nothing

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/12/29

The rather harsh personal truth that’s sometimes difficult to communicate is that I do not mind dying. I sometimes say that if I were given the option to silently disappear without anyone grieving or remembering that I ever existed, I would do this without thinking twice. No, it’s not that I’m nihilistic. Well, maybe some. Rather, it’s that what I am on the external(the personality, character, attributes, relationship to others) has nothing much to do with who I truly am. It’s clear to me that

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4:54

The Posture of Surrender

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/12/27

In conversations with my more intimate friends, when we share the difficult experiences we face, the more dense matters of being alive in society, it is not uncommon for me to share what I have found to be the ultimate stance of our existence in this plain of experience: the posture of surrender. Surrender, it seems clear to me is the only practice that this incarnation, this instance of being has been called to do over and over again.“When you say surrender, what are you surrendering to?” My

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7:11

The Muted Colors of Vibrant Intimacy

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/12/21

One of the most challenging invitations of this human life for all of us is or would be the call to intimacy. We often limit the call to intimacy to an outward experience like the sometimes clumsy dance of physical and emotional connection within and without our relationships. We learn to navigate the landscapes of a partner’s heart, we learn to build bridges of trust, and to find shelter in mutual understanding. This external intimacy is a world of vibrant, primary colors: the bright red of

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19:58

The Chair The Laundry Sits On

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/12/14

You know that chair the laundry sits on? That chair! YOU KNOW THE ONE! Okay…if you don’t have the chair, you know someone who does! It’s that chair you dump clothes and things you plan to deal with later. Those clothes you wore once or the ones you might wear again later. The clothes you tested out but were too tight or didn’t match but you were in a hurry so you just dumped them on THE chair. The chair that holds the clothes you regret wearing. It’s the chair that now houses the clothes that came

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15:39

The Day the Six Heads Became One

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/11/25

I am no stranger to the emotion of fear. Sometimes life events would rise to unearth energetic residues within me, and then sometimes I resist what life is presenting and suffer even more. Sometimes, all that is there to do is see what’s going on under the hood. In observing today about what was showing up for me, I thought to share a reflection from the Skanda Purana, one of the Mahāpurāṇas. If you’re like me a couple of years ago, your question would have been ‘what the heck is that?’ You see,

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4:22

Something to chew on

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/11/22

Friends, a lot has been moving in my personal space. Life has been full! From waiting for my body to heal from a flu to accepting the wishes from friends on my birthday to preparing for a critical appointment… life has been full! This just means my posting has been slower. Today I am hosting friends for Friendsgiving at mine—which means practicing surrender…for someone who would rather be secluded. Before the noise starts, I wanted to share something small. Something to mule over.You know the most

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7:56

What is this?

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/11/15

In the after math of an ecstatic explosion of a meditation session yesterday, I quickly penned a reflection in verse. It was this: that i can walk is an absolute miracle, my left leg unsure where we go, the right coming along for the ride, my belly bellies and my crotch crutches, my nose knows and my ears hear. my beard itches and my pinky wishes. that i can laugh is a mystery, sounds leaping free from, somewhere wordless. that i cry is absurdly beautiful, water finding its way down my face,

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8:22

Life takes care of Life

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/11/06

This episode explores the paradox that life is both benevolent and brutal. From lions suffocating prey, wasps laying eggs in living hosts, and dolphins killing for play, to the deep grief of a mother losing her child, we see that nature’s intelligence is not sentimental. It destroys and renews in the same motion. Through these reflections, I look at how the mind resists this truth by grasping for control, trying to manage what was never ours to manage. Trusting life is not passivity; it’s

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12:51

Worshipping Uncertainty As Practice

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/10/25

Believe it or not, I used to be one of those toxic productivity coaches. I’d set goals, crush them, and then preach about how others could do the same. I even taught people how to “own their mornings.” Oh, I have a book called Good Morning: How To Win Your Day(still on Amazon). But behind the curtain, I was quietly shaming myself every night, wondering why some of my to-dos kept sneaking onto the next day’s list. These days, life laughs at my plans more than I do. Just this very afternoon, I had

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13:25

Barb's death is as insignificant as any personal...

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/10/19

A viral outcry over the death of Stranger Things’ Barb becomes the doorway to a deeper inquiry: why do we grieve fictional characters as if they were real—and how is that different from the “character” we call me?This reflection explores how our sense of self is stitched together from memory, emotion, and cultural archetypes—the achiever, the rebel, the caregiver, the cynic—none more real than the roles we mourn on screen. When we begin to see these identities as shifting performances on the stage

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10:10

The Ordinary Miracle of Seeking

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/10/11

Episode Summary:A reflection on the futility and beauty of seeking. How even the small, ordinary moments—like not wanting to get out of bed, or stubbing a toe—can open portals to deeper awareness. The episode explores how the search for happiness dissolves into the realization that joy was never missing, and how pain itself becomes an offering to love.Key Themes:The body as a mirror for unprocessed emotionThe strange permission to suffer consciouslyThe difference between happiness and joyThe

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14:26

Words fall silent in the face of Reality

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/10/02

A week ago, I found myself in the middle of a medical emergency. In one moment I was in meetings, sitting quietly in meditation, and moving through the day as usual. Minutes later my chest was heavy and my cognition slipped away. In that crisis I noticed something striking: while panic rose in the mind, something deeper remained unshaken, watching.This episode reflects on that experience and the insights that followed. I share how unpredictability reveals itself in daily life, how words fail in the

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10:48

We do not know why we are here

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/09/16

Episode NotesWhat if not knowing isn’t a problem, but the most honest ground we stand on? In this episode, I use a scene from Silo to explore the big question of why we are here—and why no story ever fully answers it. Beyond all the theories and meanings, one fact remains: we are. In this presence of “I am,” there’s a steadiness that doesn’t falter, even when everything else does. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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10:26

The intimacy of loving what is already here

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/09/06

How do we love reality in all its messiness? With its crude edges, its weight of suffering, its unpredictability? How do we stay present with what is demanding, unclear, or painfully sharp?In this episode, I explore what it means to be in love with reality. Not as a sentimental idea, but as an act of surrender. It begins with a simple seeing: there is only this moment. Nothing else. Not yesterday’s stories, not tomorrow’s anticipation. Only this. And in this single moment, everything that arises

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11:41

The Sweet Sweetness Of This Nectar

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/08/30

In past reflections I wrote about The Sweet Sweetness That I Am and The Nectar of True Devotion. Today I want to take this further by sharing a practice that laces my experience with joy and mystery, even in the thick of life’s turbulence.James, the brother of Jesus, once wrote: count it all joy when you go through trials and tribulations. That line puzzled me for years. What joy can be counted in suffering? It can’t be about a distant heavenly reward. It must be something present here, now, in the

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10:57

Where Does Your Sustenance Come From?

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/08/29

In today’s episode, I share a story that begins with a small drama by a pond in my neighborhood: a duck, broken and abandoned, dropped off to fend for itself. What seemed like the end of its story turned into a lesson in trust, because of the unlikely care of a young girl named Michelina.From there, I reflect on what this duck’s survival has to say about our own anxieties in a time of layoffs, economic shifts, and technological upheaval. Watching birds at feeders reminded me of an old teaching: that

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8:45

Lessons from a bench that was never mine

Contemplative Currents Podcast ·

2025/08/16

I share the story of an ordinary outdoor bench that became something extraordinary—a place of stillness, communion, and peace during the uncertainty of the pandemic. It was on this bench that I wrote, reflected, and connected with both neighbors and the Mystery itself.But as I prepared to leave my home after five years, I realized how easy it is to mistake the tool for the source, to confuse the object with the presence it points toward. The bench was never the peace. It was only a doorway into what

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