In this episode, JP finds himself halfway through his 100-day Heart Sutra music project and drawn to a quiet basement meditation hall he begins to call his “cave.” Trading jogging for sitting, he rediscovers the practice of simply observing — and wonders how this could possibly free anyone from suffering. Through memories of his Tai Chi teacher and another conversation with Kai, JP confronts the restless mind, the “two arrows” of pain and resistance, and the gap between the watcher and the watched. As Kai reminds him, wisdom — prajñā — is cultivated not by escaping life’s noise but by learning to observe it, deeply and without clinging. In the end, JP realizes the Buddha, the cave, and even the AI model are all teaching the same thing: there is no “I” creating — only observing, and everything else moves on its own.