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The Joyous Inescapability of Home. · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Pure simplicity, action arises spontaneously of its own accord.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no need to get anywhere other than here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you look closely, perhaps you may notice that we are always here.
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  There is an inescapability,
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  a hopelessness in a sense of escaping this nowness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check and see if you're in your own experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever found the past?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever found the future?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or have those always just been projections, mental images here and now?
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever experienced anything other than this nowness and
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  SPEAKER_00: that inescapability,
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  SPEAKER_00: that hopelessness,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's actually a very deep liberation,
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  SPEAKER_00: a very deep good news in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, usually we associate those words with negativity.
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  SPEAKER_00: But look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what is color?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is sound?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are all these shapes?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where am I?
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  SPEAKER_00: They call it
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  Germany,
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  Deutschland in the common tongue looks more like Narnia,
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  Lothlorien,
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  Rivendell.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we are, we are out here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are blessed.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an infinity of blessings present in your immediate experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: we're just usually too busy to notice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our minds are moving too frenetically.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're too hooked into a program that says, this is not it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This can't be it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's too simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: This can't possibly be it.
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  My own experience right now cannot possibly be what I'm truly
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  looking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to get somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to be somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to become someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to
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  achieve something I have to become successful I have to do this
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  and do that I have
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  to play all these games and jump through all these hoops and
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  you know it's
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  perfectly fine to play games this nowness dances through itself
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  endlessly actions
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  SPEAKER_00: arise spontaneously and endless endless co-creation
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  SPEAKER_00: occurs, there's an endlessly manifesting sequence of co-creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's literally such continuous,
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  thoroughgoing flux that it never really crystallizes into any
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  kind of permanent
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  SPEAKER_00: creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you notice, you've never seen this moment before.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never seen
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  seen me before at least not in this way this fresh iteration of
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  me I've never
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  experienced myself before I've never experienced the forest
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  cathedral quite like
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  this before this cathedral that no one owns no one owns
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  anything no one owns the
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  SPEAKER_00: sky no one owns the earth no one owns the galaxy
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  SPEAKER_00: you don't own your body, the money in your bank account.
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  Those are all conceptual overlays that we've agreed to
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  participate in at any moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those agreements could dissolve and new agreements could formulate.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what remains when all the constructs are dropped, when all the
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  All the beliefs are dropped when we deeply,
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  deeply see that no belief is true.
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  SPEAKER_00: The belief in a small,
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  SPEAKER_00: separate self who needs to go get something and achieve greatness,
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  SPEAKER_00: that belief is not true.
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  That's not to say there's no usefulness to beliefs and
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  perspectives,
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  you know,
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  as a very...
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  curious individual I have long appreciated the many great maps
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  and models and
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  perspectives that have been passed down to us and many of those
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  maps and models
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  have been essential for helping me to discover that the map is
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  not the territory
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  the beliefs are all inaccurate partializations there is a there
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  is a thoroughgoing
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  SPEAKER_00: flux of
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  SPEAKER_00: here that forever evades compartmentalization.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even as it is continuous flux,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is continuous change,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is also,
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  SPEAKER_00: in a sense,
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  SPEAKER_00: this rock-solid presence that never departs from itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is always home.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is always home.
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  SPEAKER_00: It always is simply as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even as it's
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  SPEAKER_00: its flowering,
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  its emergent attributes endlessly cascade through gargantuan
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  quantities of richness
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  SPEAKER_00: and novelty,
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  SPEAKER_00: this remains as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a very profound sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is enough as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And...
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  SPEAKER_00: What has been called liberation,
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  SPEAKER_00: awakening,
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  enlightenment is the gradual burning away of the feeling that
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  this is not enough as
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  SPEAKER_00: it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gradual burning away of the endless need to grasp for something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in another sense, there is no awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is no enlightenment.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's only this now.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's only home.
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  SPEAKER_00: However,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's showing up and everything,
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  SPEAKER_00: everything is included,
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  including all the movements of grasping and believing and
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  conjuring up stories and
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  believing in those stories and feeling like we need to get
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  somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all included too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if that's arising, which is very natural in the human experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: You can just observe that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can just feel that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can ask yourself, what really is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that grasping movement?
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  SPEAKER_00: And don't look for a conceptual answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just feel the texture of it.
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  Like what are these tentacles in my belly that feel unwell on
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  some level and are
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling like I need to escape.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to get somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to be someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to become something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just feel them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just observe them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just hold them in the neutral, loving light of pure awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Awareness itself untangles the knots, unties the knots.
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  The inmost,
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  all-present light,
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  which has no opposite,
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  alchemizes everything into itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything that enters that light becomes light.
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  Might seem like a gradual process because we are holding a lot
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  of density in our bodies.
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  We've deeply internalized belief systems that have become like
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  protective embodied layers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Energetic layers.
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  somatic exoskeletons that are that are freezing us or locking
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  us into a certain
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  reality tunnel a certain experience of reality but simply
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  beginning to feel your
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  life feel your patterns feel that unease in the belly or in the
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  chest drop all
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  SPEAKER_00: concepts about it and just go into it zoom into it as a
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  SPEAKER_00: As an unknown experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: as a mystery,
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  SPEAKER_00: deep listening,
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  SPEAKER_00: total curiosity,
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  SPEAKER_00: naked awareness,
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  SPEAKER_00: bare experiencing,
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  SPEAKER_00: spacious presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: just being with the raw actuality of your experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: however it's showing up,
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  SPEAKER_00: just being with only what is happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: gradually unties the knots, gradually unties the knots.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the knots gradually untie themselves anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet,
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  if you feel like accelerating that process or pouring kerosene
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  on that process,
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  SPEAKER_00: it seems to be
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  more or less universally applicable that letting yourself
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  simply be here now as you
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  always are simply notice that now is all that you ever live now
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  is all that you
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  ever taste now is all that you ever experience relinquish all
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  belief systems all
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  SPEAKER_00: concepts ideas and identities and just simply be with now
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  SPEAKER_00: Be with now as fullness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be with now as vastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be with now as unknown artistry.
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  SPEAKER_00: And allow that all permeating light luminosity of awareness to shine upon
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  SPEAKER_00: whatever's arising in the now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Open to the full field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it shine upon the full field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spend time not fixating attention on any one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just opening awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: to the full field,
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  SPEAKER_00: almost spacing out in a sense,
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  SPEAKER_00: like you were told not to do in school back in the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just space out into here now and let yourself feel the full field with no
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  SPEAKER_00: particular emphasis being placed on anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a very powerful portal for many of us.
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  Or go into the specificity,
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  go into the body,
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  go into the textures that are there and
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  SPEAKER_00: Experience them, feel them.
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  Full body,
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  listen to them in a direct,
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  gentle,
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  non-judgmental,
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  neutral way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cradle them,
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  cradle them in awareness like a tender-hearted grandmother
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  cradling her own wounded
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  SPEAKER_00: grandchild in her arms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cradle this soft animal body in awareness.
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  that loving heart that loving heart of pure grace pure
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  awakeness and behold witness
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  as the knots untie themselves unravel themselves and gradually
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  reveal that this is
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  SPEAKER_00: what you are this is what you have this nowness and it's enough it's home
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  It's overflowing with untold quantities of never before seen
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  artistry if we simply
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  SPEAKER_00: have eyes to see,
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  SPEAKER_00: if we simply slow down.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the midst of all this seeming chaos of our civilization,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's a possibility of just stopping,
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  SPEAKER_00: just slowing down in the middle of that.
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  It's one of the most radical things you can do at this point in
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  this busy,
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  SPEAKER_00: busy,
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  SPEAKER_00: busy world where everyone runs around like,
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  Chickens with head cut off just balking and squawking and
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  chasing the endless to-do list.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if you just stop?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if you just stop and notice this is the only place I've ever been.
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  SPEAKER_00: This nowness is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever's showing up is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that in itself is...
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  SPEAKER_00: Realization.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is liberation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, it can happen now and now and now and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We awaken again and again and again to this freshness.
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  We find these very personal access points to snap out of our
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  story and snap out of
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  SPEAKER_00: normalcy and snap into vastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: where we don't know what color is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't know what sound is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how any of this is happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the more we return to that release into unknowing,
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  SPEAKER_00: unknown vastness,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is cumulative over time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It unties, it unravels the knots.
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  It gradually unravels the sense of needing to get somewhere
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  else or be somewhere
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  SPEAKER_00: else or become someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's an increasing rest.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an increasingly deep sinking into your bones,
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  SPEAKER_00: your marrow,
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  SPEAKER_00: your cartilage of this profound reversal of orientation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead of living most of your life through time,
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  SPEAKER_00: through a story of past and future,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is a construct of the mind,
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  SPEAKER_00: you become rooted in life.
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  truth of your being the truth of what is without needing to pin
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  it down without
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  needing to say what it is the need the need to pin it down the
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  need to narrow it
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  down and know what it is in some conceptual sense that is a
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  deep part of what is
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  SPEAKER_00: gradually burned away
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  And that pinning down is what underlies a lot of our feeling
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  that this is not it
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  SPEAKER_00: and we need to get somewhere else.
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  We have these deeply internalized beliefs that this moment is
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  just a means to an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: This moment is just a blip on the radar.
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  SPEAKER_00: What matters is my endless to-do list.
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  SPEAKER_00: What matters is becoming successful in the eyes of society.
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  What matters is checking off 8,000 items on the life script
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  that I've inherited and
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  We've deeply internalized that from the time we were children
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  and that creates this
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  SPEAKER_00: recurrent feeling that this is not it and I need to get somewhere else.
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  So we can go to the root of that,
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  which are these deeply ingrained beliefs.
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  that we already know what this is and it's this big lab maze I
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  need to scurry
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  through and you know in this dystopian civilization in a
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  hostile universe none of
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  that is true none of the words I'm saying right now are true
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  they're pointers
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  they're pointing you directly home to right now but these words
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  can't capture it
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  SPEAKER_00: either because this nowness is
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too slippery.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too close.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too all-encompassing.
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  You can't step outside of it and observe it objectively because
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  you are it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this hyper tapestry.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this pure emanation of mysterious, mysterious light, luminosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this silence,
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  SPEAKER_00: this stillness that is ever-present and is playing,
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  SPEAKER_00: is dancing as all of this
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  appearance all of this apparition as these sacramental human
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  journeys this poetry
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  of human life writ by hand unseen like writing on water it's
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  it's continually
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  morphing it's it's it's already gone the moment you look at it
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  the now melts away
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  SPEAKER_00: past nowhere to be found future nowhere to be found and yet
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no need to escape.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's okay that there's no hope of escaping because you're already free.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're already free.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are free to rest as home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are already home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are already free.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are free to rest as what you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are free to feel your wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: with this oceanic presence,
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  this oceanic unicity that is miraculously cycling through
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  endless unknown spirals
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  SPEAKER_00: of firework displays.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what is this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are we?
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  Walk down the street,
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  put your phone away on the bus,
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  the train,
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  and just look.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are these
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  SPEAKER_00: What are these ragtag sculptures chiseled by hand unseen?
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  Every face like a poem revealing ancient,
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  ancient karma,
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  ancient stories,
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  and yet unpindownable.
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  unpindownable as any kind of fixed meaning but that's okay that
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  reveals hyper
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  meaning it reveals that every face could be interpreted
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  infinite different ways and
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  none of those interpretations would be able to fully
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  encapsulate it so it reveals
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  SPEAKER_00: the the infinity the infinite dimensional jewels all around us
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  SPEAKER_00: This totality,
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  this nowness is an infinite dimensional jewel continually
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  flowering into more of
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  SPEAKER_00: its own radiance.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every single one of its seeming attributes,
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  SPEAKER_00: its seeming children,
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  is also an infinite dimensional jewel revealing the same
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  fractal weirdness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the same endless morphing shimmeringness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the same endless opening of lotuses within lotuses,
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  SPEAKER_00: This ever twirling diamond-ness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The macrocosm is in the microcosm.
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  The macrocosm expresses as and through the microcosms because
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  we are waves
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  SPEAKER_00: inseparable from the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wave is the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ocean is the wave.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the ocean is all around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the ocean is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget enlightenment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget awakening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forget liberation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just notice that this is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be as you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be what you cannot not be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest as wholeness now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are totally and completely free to be as you are in this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are not limited to this
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  SPEAKER_00: apparent skin suit.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the full field.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this full vastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the whole universe expressing as this razor's edge of you-ness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You-ness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Soak it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let the light in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take good care, my friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless.