When I was a teenager in the tenth grade, I somehow learned that many of my favourite music videos were directed by a man who went by the name Little X, whose legal name is Julien Christian Lutz, and who is now professionally known as Director X, and who I consider a great mentor, colleague, and friend.

We live in a dichotomous and conflicted world, but that has always been the case, especially long before the agricultural revolution.

Last week, on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, I attended the second annual World Mental Health Day Festival in New York City, specifically at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, through an American mental health non-profit organization I have collaborated with for the last three years, Project Healthy Minds.

Mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition, known as sati in Pali, is fundamental to the tradition and all forms of meditation.

If left to my own devices, and when different forms of stress lead me to forget much of what I have learned about embodying a positive mindset, I can lack gratitude for the overabundance of blessings in my life.

In 2021, I launched a series of meditation playlists via Spotify to provide my audience with easily-accessible audio for mindfulness meditations.

I conceptualized the Sama series of meditative structures in December 2022; I had Midjourney’s generative artificial intelligence create the initial visual representations of the series through several text-based prompts for seven primary reasons. I aim to have at least one of the structures built in a major city, ideally within the next two years, regardless of how arduous or complicated the process may be.