Buddhist Scholar & Mindfulness Teacher
Tai Chi & Qi Gong instructor
Artist /DJ /Runner/Model
Email 📧: @taoist9xl_ !!re_email!!_gmail.com
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This week on the podcast, I’m joined by Hakim Tafari (@hakstao ), a master of mindfulness and curator of culture, returning for his second appearance on the pod.
We dig into his philosophy of surrender as a superpower and his “Sure Hearts Release” practice for personal transformation. We discuss his unique blend of street culture and ancient wisdom, from Tai Chi to running, and how mindful movement can revolutionize our approach to life.
This one is appointment listening.
Episode 858.
✌🏼🌱 - Rich
A slice of this week's exchange with Hakim Tafari (@hakstao ), a master of mindfulness and curator of culture, returning for his second appearance on the pod.
We dig into his philosophy of surrender as a superpower and his “Sure Hearts Release” practice for personal transformation. We discuss his unique blend of street culture and ancient wisdom, from Tai Chi to running, and how mindful movement can revolutionize our approach to life.
This one is appointment listening.
Episode 858.
✌🏼🌱 - Rich
“Your mind can either dictate you, or it can be your co-pilot.”
A slice of my exchange with the journeyman of reinvention, @hakstao
Our conversation centered on the spiritual component of running. Finding peace in failure. Creating a mindfulness-based lifestyle. The call to blaze a spiritual path. And finding freedom — in mind, body, and soul.
Episode 557. Streaming wherever you enjoy podcasts.
✌🏼🌱 - Rich
Some books don’t just tell stories , they change you and leave an incredible profound impact on our lives.
Here are the 5 books that have shaped who I am:
1. The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Alex Haley & Malcolm x
2. Be Here Now — Ram Dass
3. The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel Van Der Kolk
4. The Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
5. The Art of War — Sun Tzu
Each one left a mark I still carry today ,the way I think, the way I see the world, the way I show up.
Now I want to hear from you 👇🏿
What’s the book that truly shaped your life? The one you’d recommend to anyone, no hesitation.
Drop it in the comments , I’m genuinely curious, and honestly, I’m always looking for my next great read.
#books
#reading
#booksbooksbooks
#booksthatchangedmylife
#read
I lost everything at once.…..
Most of all I thought I lost who I was.
That kind of dark doesn’t just shake you.
It dismantles you piece by piece until you’re sitting in the rubble of a life you don’t recognise anymore.
I’ve been that person. Completely hollowed out. No roadmap. No guarantees.
What got me through wasn’t a strategy. It wasn’t a morning routine or a mindset shift.
It was the decision made over and over again on the hardest days to keep moving toward something I couldn’t even see yet.
That takes a different kind of courage. The quiet kind. The kind nobody claps for.
If you’re in that place right now not knowing who you are on the other side of this I’m not going to tell you it gets easy.
But I will tell you it gets real. And real is worth crawling for.
Excerpt from ep. 557 of the @richroll podcast
If you need a boost or lil nudge, hopefully this provided it for you today.
#innerwork #light #trust #healing #courage
I felt trapped in my own mind.
And running became my way out.
Not for fitness
but because there was suffering…
and I didn’t know how to meet it.
So I started moving.
Step by step.
Breath by breath.
And somewhere along the way,
it became practice.
The breath as an anchor.
The body as awareness.
Each step… a return.
And what I had been avoiding
the thoughts, the weight
started to reveal itself.
Not something to escape…
but something to understand.
This is where it became therapy.
Meditation in motion.
Learning how to be with it,
without being owned by it.
And in that…
there were moments of freedom.
Not from life…
but within it.
#howrunningbecamemytherapy
#run
We are all trying to figure it out, in one way or another.
The key is not to force things, there is a natural flow to everything in life, we just have to be patient and kind enough to ourselves and follow the heart/minds instructions.
In these times allow yourself some grace and compassion, whether you feel you deserve it or not….
At the end of the day, you are more than worthy.
📸 : @saon.kashem
#todaysmeditation
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Honored to team up with @on and @highsnobiety to showcase the new Cloudmonster 3 Hyper.
Designed for maximum cushion with stable, sturdy support for any day.
Lightweight and built with the Cloudtec cushioning system, this shoe delivers high responsiveness while helping maintain a strong tempo on the run.
A must-have for marathon training blocks, long runs, or anyone looking to add a reliable shoe to their rotation.
I really love these shoes, and I think once you take them for a spin, you will too.
@on@highsnobiety
#longrunoftheweek
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#highsnobiety
#runner
#cloudtec
There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at.
And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we’ve discovered in its pure state.
So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are.
But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror.
John Coltrane
📸: @saon.kashem
#todaysmeditation
#johncoltrane
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#blackivy
#dandy
Q2
Neither this body am I, nor soul, nor these fleeting images passing by, nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, nor yet sentiments and the psyche’s labyrinth.
Who then am I?
A consciousness without origin, not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.
Rumi
Well it finally came out!!!!!!!!
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Fulljoy this capture!!!
More to come in 26
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