This work has not just been an intellectual inquiry—it has been a self-study, a self-enquiry. I set out on this path not as a detached observer, but because I had to integrate my own life, my own experiences. I needed to understand why and how I was experiencing this mind and body the way I was.

And in that process, in the very depths of this inquiry, I found wisdom—not just my own, but the insights of great minds across time, across traditions, all converging toward the same truth.

It has been a seven-year journey—beginning in 2018, bringing me here, now, sitting with this integration.

And what I have come to realize is this: Nothing can be discarded. Not the past—not the history we inherit, the art we create, the thoughts that shape us. Not the present—not what we are experiencing now, in our bodies, in our minds, in the very conditions of our being.

Everything is carried forward. 

But here lies the beauty of Śūnyatā—what Buddha truly meant when he spoke of emptiness. This mind—our mind—can reorganize, realign, reimagine itself.

Nothing is written in stone. And yet, everything is written in stone. Nothing is fated. And yet, everything is fated.

As Nāgārjuna so powerfully put it: The sentient being is neither bound nor free. Sentience itself—our ability to experience, to perceive, to be—is both our greatest gift and our greatest paradox.

And once we integrate ourselves—once we align ourselves in the truest sense, from head to feet, as we are, as an embodied whole—this will no longer be the same experience of life. 

It will be a new gestalt entirely.