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There is a different way of living life. · Council of Kings

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SPEAKER_00: Greetings, family.
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There is a different way of living life,
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a way that is radically simple and radically free.
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SPEAKER_00: And I want to try to describe or point at this way of living life today.
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Doing so can be tricky because what is being pointed at is
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something that is
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SPEAKER_00: fundamentally beyond words,
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SPEAKER_00: beyond ideas,
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SPEAKER_00: and beyond belief systems.
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SPEAKER_00: but it's fun to try to solve that riddle and point at it anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: And really,
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it is all of the words and ideas and belief systems and the
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never-ending recurring
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SPEAKER_00: loop of thoughts and our endless fixation on thought and our
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deeply habitual living inside of thought-based stories to a
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degree where we don't
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SPEAKER_00: even realize that's what we're doing.
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We don't even realize we're not opening to the visceral
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presence of immediate life
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and immediate wholeness because we believe we already know what
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life is and we're
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SPEAKER_00: deeply,
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SPEAKER_00: deeply locked into
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SPEAKER_00: an assumption of what it is that places us as a kind of small,
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SPEAKER_00: small being in a cold,
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SPEAKER_00: challenging universe,
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SPEAKER_00: a big world,
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and we've got to jump through 7,000 hoops to hopefully one day
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reach the prize of
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SPEAKER_00: status,
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SPEAKER_00: success,
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SPEAKER_00: happiness,
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SPEAKER_00: whatever it may be.
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SPEAKER_00: And there is another possibility that's always available.
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SPEAKER_00: And I talk about this possibility ongoingly.
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I've made a lot of art and videos and writings in relation to
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this possibility
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SPEAKER_00: because I honestly...
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SPEAKER_00: I honestly deeply sense and see and experience that this is perhaps...
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the most medicinal and healing and illuminating possibility
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that can be discovered
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SPEAKER_00: in human life.
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And I also deeply sense that reaching a critical mass of people
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who have made this
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discovery for themselves is essential if we wish to truly heal
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our civilization on
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SPEAKER_00: the deepest level.
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SPEAKER_00: Nothing else goes all the way to the root.
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SPEAKER_00: This discovery really goes to the root of division.
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The root of division which underlies all war and all violence
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and abuse and cruelty
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SPEAKER_00: on our planet.
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SPEAKER_00: Mosquito buzzing around here.
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SPEAKER_00: Unlike some videos, I'm slowing down more today.
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SPEAKER_00: I might allow more pauses.
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Sometimes I drink coffee and record videos and I can get into
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an almost raving ecstasis.
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SPEAKER_00: And someone recently reflected to me that that...
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can come across as ungrounded or they don't feel me as deeply
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grounded in their body.
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So today I have not had any coffee and I'm trying to root into
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this from a more
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SPEAKER_00: grounded and a more human place.
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SPEAKER_00: So
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One way to begin speaking about this different way of living
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life is to use the
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metaphor that I use sometimes of the classic optical illusion
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of the duck and the
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SPEAKER_00: rabbit.
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SPEAKER_00: So...
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SPEAKER_00: In any given moment of life,
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SPEAKER_00: you know these optical illusions,
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SPEAKER_00: one moment you're seeing the duck,
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SPEAKER_00: you look at it slightly different,
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SPEAKER_00: and you're suddenly seeing a rabbit.
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SPEAKER_00: In any given moment of life,
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SPEAKER_00: that is available to us,
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a completely different perspective on our immediate experience
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that completely
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SPEAKER_00: changes what we're seeing.
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SPEAKER_00: One moment you feel like a,
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SPEAKER_00: again,
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SPEAKER_00: a limited,
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SPEAKER_00: finite,
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SPEAKER_00: small being trapped in a big,
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lonely world trying to accomplish something or prove something
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or jump through all
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SPEAKER_00: these hoops and hopefully one day reach the prize.
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SPEAKER_00: And the next moment, if you start to practice
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SPEAKER_00: making this shift or engaging life in this other way,
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SPEAKER_00: what is here is more like a pure...
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SPEAKER_00: a pure presence,
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SPEAKER_00: a pure...
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undefined field of radiance that is only now and that you are
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fundamentally one with.
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SPEAKER_00: You are non-separate from this field of life energy and you are simply
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being simply existing as this field of life energy that has
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this inherent flavor of
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SPEAKER_00: wholeness,
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SPEAKER_00: of completion,
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SPEAKER_00: of totality.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a deep experiential sense of it being all-encompassing.
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It encompasses you and everyone and everything that may come
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into your field of awareness.
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SPEAKER_00: It encompasses the totality of reality.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a sense of non-separation from
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SPEAKER_00: all of life, all of reality.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is the basis of Christ's statement,
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SPEAKER_00: what you do to the least among you,
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SPEAKER_00: this you also do to me,
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SPEAKER_00: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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SPEAKER_00: love your neighbor as yourself,
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SPEAKER_00: love your enemy as yourself,
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there is a deep recognition of a fundamental substratum of life
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that unifies all of
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SPEAKER_00: us through which we are all participating in a kind of interbeing,
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SPEAKER_00: you could call it as some people do,
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SPEAKER_00: or an ocean.
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SPEAKER_00: We are all like waves on the ocean and
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SPEAKER_00: Waves are not in any way separate from the ocean, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Waves simply are the ocean expressing itself,
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SPEAKER_00: emanating itself in the apparent temporary form of a wave.
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Yet at no point does the wave actually become something
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separate from or distinct
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SPEAKER_00: from the ocean.
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SPEAKER_00: The whole time it is the ocean.
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SPEAKER_00: So...
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SPEAKER_00: And if we want to get even more subtle,
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SPEAKER_00: we can notice that even to try to draw lines around a given wave and say,
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SPEAKER_00: oh,
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SPEAKER_00: I know what this wave is,
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SPEAKER_00: and his name is Johnny,
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SPEAKER_00: and he has these characteristics,
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that is based on a highly reductive kind of averaging process
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or reducing down
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SPEAKER_00: process because
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SPEAKER_00: If we look at a wave moment to moment,
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SPEAKER_00: or if we look at any of our bodies,
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SPEAKER_00: any of ourselves from moment to moment,
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SPEAKER_00: we are literally continuously morphing and changing.
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SPEAKER_00: No wave is the same from one moment to the next.
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SPEAKER_00: No person is the same from one moment to the next.
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SPEAKER_00: No body is the same from one moment to the next.
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Especially when you go to the granular level of detail where
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you're looking at the
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SPEAKER_00: way the light is refracting off of my shirt right now.
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Or the precise way that the apparent colors and textures that
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make up this apparent
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SPEAKER_00: apparition of a body are morphing and swirling and dancing within...
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SPEAKER_00: within what we usually call the visual field.
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SPEAKER_00: Or if you were to give me a hug,
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SPEAKER_00: for example,
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SPEAKER_00: and we shared a beautiful,
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SPEAKER_00: warm bear hug,
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SPEAKER_00: and you felt how every moment of that hug,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: with your eyes closed,
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SPEAKER_00: you wouldn't even be seeing me anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: You would be experiencing me as kind of a warm,
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tactile field of energy that is vibratorily shifting
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continuously and morphing
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SPEAKER_00: continuously.
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So there's essentially a way of starting to be with experience
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in this immediate
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SPEAKER_00: tactile,
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SPEAKER_00: textural,
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full sensory contact type of way where we relinquish all our
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prior ideas and
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SPEAKER_00: definitions of what life is and we allow life to
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reveal itself freshly to us we allow life to reveal itself
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freshly to us and you
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know this this has been this is this type of practice goes by
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different names it's
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been called mindfulness wakefulness meditation and yet
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oftentimes when it's placed
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SPEAKER_00: within those categories
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SPEAKER_00: I feel that it doesn't,
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SPEAKER_00: it's still highly valuable,
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but I feel like it's often not paired with the level of
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instruction that allows it
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to really cut through to deeper levels of what can be seen
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through this type of
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SPEAKER_00: totally intimate engagement with the now moment.
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You know,
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it's often the kind of mass marketed mindfulness is essentially
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like,
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, become very present.
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SPEAKER_00: Be in the now.
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SPEAKER_00: Let yourself feel what you're actually sensing.
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Let yourself,
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you know,
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put your hands on the grass and notice what's actually here.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's all great.
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SPEAKER_00: That's very beneficial.
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But in my experience,
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it's incredibly potent to also pair that with a practice of
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SPEAKER_00: as much as possible,
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SPEAKER_00: utterly and completely relinquishing all ideas,
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SPEAKER_00: all preconceptions,
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SPEAKER_00: all belief systems,
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SPEAKER_00: all opinions about what any of this is.
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SPEAKER_00: Let this be a, an utterly unknown field of pure mystery.
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SPEAKER_00: Let this be an utterly unknown field of mystery.
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Let yourself return to infant mind,
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to beginner mind,
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as if you had never seen this before.
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SPEAKER_00: As much as possible, let in that sense of freshness, vividness.
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SPEAKER_00: Bang!
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SPEAKER_00: Like, big bang.
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SPEAKER_00: Big bang now.
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SPEAKER_00: There is an explosion of vividness.
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SPEAKER_00: all around us, all around us.
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SPEAKER_00: It might be easier to access it sometimes than others.
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SPEAKER_00: For me, I love coming into nature.
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SPEAKER_00: This here, this forest that we live on the edge of, this is my cathedral.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my church out here.
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SPEAKER_00: My sanctuary.
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SPEAKER_00: I love coming out here and
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It's very peaceful and it's easy to become more still and let
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the mind become more
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quiet and freshly be with something like what we would
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typically call a tree,
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SPEAKER_00: but be with it not as a tree,
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SPEAKER_00: be with it as a living sculpture,
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SPEAKER_00: a living artwork,
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SPEAKER_00: and notice how the immediate textural experience of it
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SPEAKER_00: is not the same from one moment to the next.
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SPEAKER_00: It's ever morphing.
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SPEAKER_00: It's ever shifting.
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The now moment is like a hyper immersive artwork that we are
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fully embedded in and
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SPEAKER_00: as we,
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SPEAKER_00: our bodies are another expression of
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SPEAKER_00: of that artwork.
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SPEAKER_00: And if we can return to child mind,
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SPEAKER_00: if we can return to infant mind,
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SPEAKER_00: really let ourselves open freshly to this immaculate,
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SPEAKER_00: sparkling,
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SPEAKER_00: ever morphing,
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SPEAKER_00: ever shifting artistry,
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SPEAKER_00: we can be dazzled for one, regaled.
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We can come back into a sense of foundational wonder at the
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sheer astonishing
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SPEAKER_00: miracle,
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SPEAKER_00: the fact that this is here at all and that it happens to look like this.
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And if we deepen in that investigation and we even start to set
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down deeply,
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SPEAKER_00: deeply embedded concepts,
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SPEAKER_00: ideas,
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SPEAKER_00: and belief systems such as
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SPEAKER_00: This is a body.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Jordan.
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SPEAKER_00: Time and space really exist.
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SPEAKER_00: There is a past.
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SPEAKER_00: There is a future.
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SPEAKER_00: I got a bunch of things to do later today.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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I'm a person in a world that's rapidly going down the shitter
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and I need to be
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SPEAKER_00: worried about all that and yada,
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SPEAKER_00: yada,
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SPEAKER_00: yada,
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SPEAKER_00: yada,
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SPEAKER_00: yada.
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SPEAKER_00: If we can... If we can discover a...
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I almost don't even want to call it a practice because that can
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make it sound kind
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SPEAKER_00: of heavy and laborious and like,
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SPEAKER_00: oh,
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SPEAKER_00: I need to engage in my very serious spiritual practice.
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SPEAKER_00: It's more like discovering a portal.
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SPEAKER_00: It's more like discovering a portal,
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SPEAKER_00: a playful,
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SPEAKER_00: a portal that can be engaged playfully at any level.
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SPEAKER_00: any moment of life.
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SPEAKER_00: At any moment of life,
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SPEAKER_00: it's like discovering an open doorway or an open secret,
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to use a couple phrases that have been used by Peter Brown and
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Tony Parsons.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like discovering this portal in the now that is always here,
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SPEAKER_00: always available,
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SPEAKER_00: where essentially you just discover a skill of
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SPEAKER_00: rooting your life,
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SPEAKER_00: rooting your consciousness in what you can actually empirically,
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SPEAKER_00: demonstrably discover right now,
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SPEAKER_00: that which you cannot deny.
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SPEAKER_00: You cannot deny that this is here.
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SPEAKER_00: Life is here.
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SPEAKER_00: In a way,
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SPEAKER_00: that is the primordial fact,
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SPEAKER_00: the one undeniable fact,
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SPEAKER_00: perhaps in a sense,
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SPEAKER_00: the sole fact that there is.
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SPEAKER_00: This astonishing totality is and
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SPEAKER_00: No one knows what it is in a profound sense.
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SPEAKER_00: No one can say what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: It cannot be pinned down.
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That's part of the discovery that you come to as you relinquish
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your belief systems
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and you start to open to this as an incredibly bizarre field of
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freshness,
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SPEAKER_00: of artistry,
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SPEAKER_00: of bottomless infinity,
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SPEAKER_00: bottomless
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textural richness in every direction,
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you start to really,
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really deeply see how
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SPEAKER_00: All our ideas,
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SPEAKER_00: all our belief systems,
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SPEAKER_00: all our identities,
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SPEAKER_00: thoughts,
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SPEAKER_00: opinions,
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SPEAKER_00: and words are an incredibly low fidelity medium.
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SPEAKER_00: A narrowing mechanism that inevitably,
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SPEAKER_00: in order to fit life into that mechanism,
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we have to dramatically collapse down this infinite dimensional
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dimension.
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infinitely juicy richness all around us we have to collapse it
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down into this um
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this very two-dimensional construct in a way it's like taking
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an infinite super
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SPEAKER_00: ocean and trying to fit it inside of a film canister and
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SPEAKER_00: the medium is simply very low fidelity.
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SPEAKER_00: And so when you see that very deeply,
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you discover the sense in which no one knows what this is and
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no one will ever know
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what this is at the level of ideas and thoughts and beliefs
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because that medium of
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SPEAKER_00: encapsulation functions through essentially
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process of creating these finite simplified structures that
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attempt to pin down
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SPEAKER_00: reality and category categorize reality but
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever this is, it can't be pinned down.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't fit in those boxes.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too slippery.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too all-encompassing.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too fluid.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too dynamic.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too ever-morphing.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too intimate.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too close.
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It's too simple while also being simultaneously infinitely
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rich,
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infinitely detailed.
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SPEAKER_00: It just doesn't fit.
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SPEAKER_00: You could spend
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million years writing a million treatises about one nanosecond
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of this experience
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and you would not be able to say what that was you could spend
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a million years
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writing a million treatises describing the taste of chocolate
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and you would not be
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able to capture or convey that to someone who had never tasted
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chocolate before you
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SPEAKER_00: know the the menu is not the meal the map is not the territory
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SPEAKER_00: And so this portal that I'm describing,
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SPEAKER_00: this possibility that's always there is an ever,
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SPEAKER_00: ever fresh,
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ever present possibility of complete learning to completely
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relinquish maps and
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SPEAKER_00: for at least a period of time.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not like you won't later have access to the maps.
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The maps can remain accessible and can be called upon when
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they're useful,
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SPEAKER_00: when they're practical.
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SPEAKER_00: But you learn this capacity of completely discarding the maps,
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SPEAKER_00: letting yourself come into this whole other place
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whole other experience of intimacy,
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of freshness,
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of closeness,
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closer than your bones.
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SPEAKER_00: Like John Astin has said, we become like hearts without skin.
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SPEAKER_00: The sense of being cut off from the world,
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SPEAKER_00: which is created through ideas,
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an idea of I'm over here and I'm a separate entity and the
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world is over there.
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SPEAKER_00: That sense of separation can drop and dissolve and we can feel ourselves
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SPEAKER_00: as this field of whatever this is.
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SPEAKER_00: And the palpable quality of that,
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SPEAKER_00: there's an inherent quality of that that feels like rest,
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SPEAKER_00: that feels like coming home,
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SPEAKER_00: that in a way that is completely beyond words,
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SPEAKER_00: it has this revelatory,
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SPEAKER_00: this self-revealing
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SPEAKER_00: quality that just lets you know, yes, do, do more of this, this.
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SPEAKER_00: And,
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SPEAKER_00: and it really,
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SPEAKER_00: it really,
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it really is clearly not just like a form of pacification or
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stupefication or
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SPEAKER_00: self-hypnosis or trance.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, it,
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SPEAKER_00: it becomes available,
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this portal becomes accessible and available no matter what
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experience you happen
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SPEAKER_00: to be having,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: even if you're,
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stuck in traffic and you're feeling a sense of irritability the
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portal is still
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fully available because the portal is really just your
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immediate experience as it
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is your immediate perception as it is the now moment this year
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now exactly as it is
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and simply allowed to be as it is without boxing it into all of
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these categories
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So it's essentially just learning to be present with and live
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with and as the
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SPEAKER_00: actual phenomenological fact of what life really is for you right now.
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SPEAKER_00: We spend so much time fixated on
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SPEAKER_00: a past or a future.
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And neither of those,
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if you look at your experience,
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neither of those are anywhere to be found.
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SPEAKER_00: You've only ever experienced right now.
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SPEAKER_00: It's always now.
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SPEAKER_00: It's always now.
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SPEAKER_00: And it looks however it looks.
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SPEAKER_00: And however it happens to look, that's it.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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sometimes it looks gritty and grimy and sludgy and swampy and
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it feels yucky and
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SPEAKER_00: difficult.
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SPEAKER_00: For sure.
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SPEAKER_00: For sure.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's it too.
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SPEAKER_00: That's it too.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you look closely, you've never experienced the same emotion twice.
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SPEAKER_00: You've never had the same experience twice.
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SPEAKER_00: So...
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SPEAKER_00: this can really open something up.
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Even when we are in those swampy or slimy or difficult or
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grief-stricken waters,
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we can still allow ourselves to be with the immediate freshness
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of what that
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SPEAKER_00: experience is.
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SPEAKER_00: And when we open to the freshness of it,
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SPEAKER_00: when we open to the intimacy of,
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SPEAKER_00: wow,
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I've never experienced this type of wave that's crashing on the
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shore before,
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SPEAKER_00: And we drop the labels about it,
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SPEAKER_00: we drop the story,
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SPEAKER_00: and we just freshly experience what's really there.
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SPEAKER_00: Which might include thoughts and stories,
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SPEAKER_00: but at least in the early stages,
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SPEAKER_00: it's very valuable to learn how to...
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SPEAKER_00: drop the thoughts and stories,
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and just come into the immediate textural felt presence of
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whatever is there.
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SPEAKER_00: Realizing you've never felt that before,
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SPEAKER_00: you've never experienced that before,
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SPEAKER_00: and just letting yourself be.
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SPEAKER_00: It goes beyond just holding space for it or witnessing it.
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SPEAKER_00: You just...
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SPEAKER_00: You go into it.
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You almost zoom in and you let yourself become this vibratory
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field of sensation.
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SPEAKER_00: And whatever sensations are arising,
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SPEAKER_00: you let yourself be with this incredible intimacy,
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SPEAKER_00: this visceral,
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SPEAKER_00: percolating quality.
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SPEAKER_00: You let yourself be whatever those textures happen to be.
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SPEAKER_00: You feel them.
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SPEAKER_00: You feel them.
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SPEAKER_00: You become them with this
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SPEAKER_00: almost HD clarity, this quality of deep, deep presence.
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SPEAKER_00: And that changes everything.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a complete game changer.
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SPEAKER_00: Every experience is very different when you
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SPEAKER_00: When you allow yourself to go into it with that quality of intimacy,
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SPEAKER_00: freshness,
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SPEAKER_00: curiosity,
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SPEAKER_00: relinquishing all stories about it,
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just letting it be this mysterious happening that you are
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thankful to be able to
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SPEAKER_00: live as and kind of vibrate as for that temporary period of time,
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SPEAKER_00: noticing that it's literally continuously shifting and passing away.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever it feels like in this moment,
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SPEAKER_00: that's already gone and now it feels like something else.
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So we're just discovering how to stay with the razor's edge of
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now-ness in a way
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SPEAKER_00: that is fresh,
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SPEAKER_00: in a way that is without preconception,
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SPEAKER_00: without belief systems.
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SPEAKER_00: And we're just opening to that
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SPEAKER_00: Freshness,
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SPEAKER_00: discovering the intrinsic quality of wholeness,
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SPEAKER_00: rest,
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SPEAKER_00: homecoming,
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SPEAKER_00: peace,
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SPEAKER_00: unconditional allowing,
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SPEAKER_00: unconditional love.
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SPEAKER_00: There is an intrinsic spaciousness to whatever this is that has space for
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SPEAKER_00: everything and naturally embraces and allows everything.
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SPEAKER_00: And we're able to become...
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SPEAKER_00: internally silent enough to hear that,
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SPEAKER_00: to discover that,
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SPEAKER_00: to listen to that,
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to find that spaciousness when we get better and better at
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relinquishing all the
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SPEAKER_00: thought-based stories.
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SPEAKER_00: Essentially,
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SPEAKER_00: just discovering that everything you've ever thought is inaccurate,
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SPEAKER_00: is a highly inaccurate and highly reductive partialization of
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SPEAKER_00: So just setting all of that down,
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realizing the medium of thought is far too low fidelity to
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encapsulate what is
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SPEAKER_00: here,
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SPEAKER_00: and instead opening to this freshness as a lived presence,
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SPEAKER_00: as a living presence.
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And then we can begin to receive this deeply felt intonation,
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this harmonic reverberation of...
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SPEAKER_00: yes, I'm feeling it now.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm receiving it now.
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SPEAKER_00: I hardly even feel like I'm here anymore right now.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm melting into this.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm noticing that I've always been melted into this.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm noticing that I am whole.
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SPEAKER_00: I am one with this.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm noticing that
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There's no question of being enough or not enough or needing to
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prove something.
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SPEAKER_00: There's an intrinsic quality of enoughness and overflow.
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SPEAKER_00: It is our birthright to feel whole and to know that there's nothing...
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SPEAKER_00: We need to do or prove in order to be enough.
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SPEAKER_00: You know,
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SPEAKER_00: if you were holding yourself as a newborn baby in your arms,
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SPEAKER_00: you'd have no thought of telling that baby,
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SPEAKER_00: yeah,
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SPEAKER_00: well,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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you need to build your resume before we're really going to see
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you as enough out
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SPEAKER_00: here.
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SPEAKER_00: No,
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SPEAKER_00: it would just be very clear that the baby is primordially innocent and
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SPEAKER_00: intrinsically enough and whole and you would just love the baby.
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And so you're rediscovering in a way how to see yourself in
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that way now and at all
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SPEAKER_00: times and to not only see yourself that way,
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SPEAKER_00: but to feel and experience yourself that way.
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SPEAKER_00: experience yourself as this primordially innocent mysterious emanation of
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SPEAKER_00: primordial primordially innocent vastness wholeness that is the type of
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SPEAKER_00: experiential quality that can open up through this investigation and
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SPEAKER_00: The nice thing is you can just let it remain deeply experiential.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't ever have to turn it into a belief system.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to try to turn it into an elaborate metaphysics.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to call it God or call it any particular name.
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SPEAKER_00: You can just let it be an experiential revelation that guides you.
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Check it out and see for yourself and see if this does not feel
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like a homecoming,
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SPEAKER_00: a deep coming home that relaxes every part of your being,
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SPEAKER_00: that communicates to every cell.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, you are enfolded.
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SPEAKER_00: You are utterly and fully
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one with this you are utterly and fully held by and as this and
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that self-verifying
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sense of of wholeness of oneness of rest of peace of love i
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deeply intuit that
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SPEAKER_00: anyone who experiences that for themselves
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is going to viscerally understand,
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yes,
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this is something immensely important.
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SPEAKER_00: This is one of the greatest discoveries of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: This is an untold treasure that's been hiding in plain sight.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to help more people experience this.
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And you don't even have to turn it into any type of dogma or
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belief system in order
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SPEAKER_00: for that to happen.
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SPEAKER_00: It can just be experiential.
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SPEAKER_00: So, hmm.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyhoo, it's starting to rain a little bit out here.
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SPEAKER_00: And the rain feels really nice, fresh.
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SPEAKER_00: So it feels like a good place to wrap this particular video.
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SPEAKER_00: I deeply hope there was something valuable for you here.
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SPEAKER_00: And I hope you'll remember that in any moment,
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SPEAKER_00: there's always this portal,
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always this availability to go from seeing the duck to suddenly
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seeing the rabbit.
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Suddenly just being undefined vastness and letting yourself
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deeply feel that in every cell as...
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primordial wholeness primordial peace that is available and i
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wish that for you i
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wish that for you my friend and for all beings i wish for all
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beings to remember
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SPEAKER_00: primordial peace i wish for us to end all wars and open to more beautiful
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SPEAKER_00: possibilities of what life can be for
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SPEAKER_00: our wonderful selves,
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SPEAKER_00: our families,
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SPEAKER_00: for all beings,
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SPEAKER_00: human and non-human,
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SPEAKER_00: for our children,
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SPEAKER_00: our grandchildren.
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SPEAKER_00: So offering that up, that's the prayer for today.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, divinity.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you, vastness.
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SPEAKER_00: May this...
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SPEAKER_00: May this film be a gift unto the whole.
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SPEAKER_00: For the highest good of all.
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SPEAKER_00: For the highest good of all.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Aho namaste.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Every day is Thanksgiving, my friend.
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SPEAKER_00: Give thanks.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
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SPEAKER_00: Supreme artistry.
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SPEAKER_00: Peace and love to you.
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SPEAKER_00: Take care.