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Bottomless Volcanic Lava of Luscious Love. · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Now-ness holds bottomless depth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now-ness holds bottomless depth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never been anywhere other than here now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look in your experience and see.
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  Have you ever found the past or the future except as a mental
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  image,
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  as a thought here and now?
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  SPEAKER_00: I suspect you haven't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is all there is in a deep sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that we have.
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  have,
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  all that we encounter,
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  all that we live,
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  all that we ever have to deal with.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a pure simplicity in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: All you ever have to deal with is now, and now is already done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instantaneously, before we can even think about it, now is done.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now, and now, and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And who knows how any of this is happening?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what a phone is,
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  SPEAKER_00: what a video is,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I am,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what these trees are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet,
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  SPEAKER_00: And experientially,
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  SPEAKER_00: I know this nowness with profound,
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  SPEAKER_00: profound intimacy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but not in a way that pins it down,
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  SPEAKER_00: not in a way that says what it is,
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  SPEAKER_00: not in a way that puts it in a box or a category and says,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh,
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  SPEAKER_00: yep,
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  we've categorized that away in the scientific classification
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  system that we can
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  SPEAKER_00: now...
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  SPEAKER_00: rest our heads upon,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  the son of man has no place to rest his head because this is
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  pure groundlessness,
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  SPEAKER_00: boundlessness.
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  There is no way to fit this super ocean of nowness into any
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  construct,
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  into any construct.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that sense, I don't know what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I couldn't say what it is yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all do know it most intimately.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are it.
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  And we're opening into its richness and we're being its
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  richness and we're tasting
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  SPEAKER_00: its richness and its ever newness,
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  SPEAKER_00: its ever freshness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never seen this moment before.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never.
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  experienced me in this way before you've never felt what you're
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  feeling right now
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  before it's all new it's all new we usually just don't notice
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  that because we're
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  not being with the felt textural visceral subtlety of now we're
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  instead being with
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  a mental overlay a conceptual story that says oh yeah i know
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  what this is i'm
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  ho-hum this is my life i gotta do x and y about about about um
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  you know this kind
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  SPEAKER_00: of sucks but what what is it
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  SPEAKER_00: What is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Boom!
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  SPEAKER_00: It's here.
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  It's a hyper-immersive textural tapestry of wonders and you are
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  that tapestry.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a pensieve of pure etheric juice and you are that pensieve.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ripple on the pensieve is the pensieve.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the whole pensieve.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the whole etheric ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And...
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  SPEAKER_00: This nowness has bottomless depth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, there is an inescapability to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's actually the good news.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a joyful inescapability.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cannot escape home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are free.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are held in the arms of infinite love here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's your destiny, baby.
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  SPEAKER_00: So sink into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sink into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the interesting thing, when we open to this nowness...
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  SPEAKER_00: In our mental story,
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  SPEAKER_00: this nowness looks like a tiny sliver,
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  SPEAKER_00: a blip on the radar,
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  SPEAKER_00: a means to an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when the now becomes an end in itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you just open to vastness,
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  SPEAKER_00: you open to this wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: you open to this bottomless effulgence,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's astonishing what can happen,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: You can literally go within yourself, within your own depths.
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  You can plumb the depths of your being and you can go to what
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  is subtler than the most subtle.
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  You can go to spaces that are so subtle that even putting words
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  upon them like
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  SPEAKER_00: silence,
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  SPEAKER_00: stillness,
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  SPEAKER_00: being,
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  SPEAKER_00: pure awareness is saying far too much.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can go to what is subtler than the most subtle.
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  SPEAKER_00: These subtle realms are all around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just usually don't pay attention to them, but they are what we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the subtle realm, the holy realm of vastness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we open to this portal of nowness as an end in itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: we can sink down into that subtlety to discover what
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  SPEAKER_00: Miracle of miracles,
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  SPEAKER_00: a bottomless ocean of love,
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  SPEAKER_00: an inferno of grace like the center of the sun.
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  There's an inferno of grace burning in the heart of this
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  nowness that we can
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  SPEAKER_00: access,
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  SPEAKER_00: that we can touch,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that can touch us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you,
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  when that burning inferno of grace touches your heart and
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  punctures your heart and
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  SPEAKER_00: you feel like a heart without skin and you're feeling it all,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're just weeping.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just weeping before this love.
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  SPEAKER_00: All you can do is weep, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: You shall know the truth when you weep before it.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I've said before, you do know the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You already know the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: The truth is the only thing.
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  you come in contact with this is the truest thing there is the
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  truest thing we've
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  ever seen as far as experience goes you know you don't have to
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  turn that into a
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  dogma is there something else other than nowness maybe there is
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  who knows but i
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  haven't found it check in your own experience see if you've
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  found it as far as i
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  SPEAKER_00: can tell nowness is what we have is what we are
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  And there's a gradual burning away of the need to look for
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  something else because
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  SPEAKER_00: you just discover that now is where you've always been.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is whole.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is where everything shows up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now is this bottomless infinity of wonders.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the castle of grand enchantments.
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  SPEAKER_00: This nowness of your present experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your own immediate perception now,
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  your own immediate naked experience now is what has been called
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  the kingdom of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: the kingdom of heaven.
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  And the way to open to that is to just stop treating the now as
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  a blip on the radar
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  SPEAKER_00: or a means to an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Open to it as an end in itself.
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  Get curious,
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  open with total curiosity to the subtleties of this beingness
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  and
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can be guided into a heart of ever-present love,
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  SPEAKER_00: like the center of the sun,
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  a totalizing inferno of grace that can bring you to your knees
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  in humble worship,
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  SPEAKER_00: humble devotion,
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  where you just feel like you discovered that you were born in a
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  boundless treasure
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  SPEAKER_00: chest.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just had to open your eyes and see and
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  SPEAKER_00: You were born on a mountain of infinity dollars, infinity bitcoins.
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  SPEAKER_00: What this is is unpricable,
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  SPEAKER_00: far more precious than all the gold,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the money,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the dinero in the cosmos.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is your birthright.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have already received that.
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  And so when you let that in,
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  when you feel that,
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  it's incredibly humbling.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's astounding.
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  SPEAKER_00: It continuously opens into more of itself.
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  The need to pin it down burns away more and more because you
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  just notice that you
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  SPEAKER_00: can't pin it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a volcano of ever-gurgling lava of lusciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never seen this moment before.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never seen this freshness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when that punctures the heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: when that hits you in the heart and inspires deepest devotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: there tends to be a spontaneous generosity,
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  SPEAKER_00: a spontaneous whimsical inspiration to give it back.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like that lyric from Mac Miller.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yahweh put the world in my hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm giving it back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world is in your hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: You rest in God's hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: You rest amid the warm bosom of the Great Mother.
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  SPEAKER_00: You rest in the one cozy blanket here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always and forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This now moment is the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it puncture your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it into every cell.
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  Let it reformat your total beingness if that's what it seems to
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  want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over here, that's what it seems to want to do.
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  It seems to want to sanctify this beingness in the fires of
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  grace such that I can
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  SPEAKER_00: Be love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be loving presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be a light of loving presence unto myself,
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  SPEAKER_00: my daughter,
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  SPEAKER_00: my wife,
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  SPEAKER_00: my family,
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  SPEAKER_00: my friends,
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  SPEAKER_00: and all beings in all worlds.
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  That seems to be the sacred communion that this wholeness is
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  inviting us to discover.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not a doingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a getting somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a sinking into the beingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a willingness to be in the fires,
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  SPEAKER_00: to be in the alchemical oven,
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  SPEAKER_00: the fires of pure grace,
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  SPEAKER_00: ongoingly,
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  SPEAKER_00: to let it in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's all around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's knocking patiently on our window.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just have to let those fires of pure Christ light, pure...
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  SPEAKER_00: grace of Ananamai Ma and the great saints.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just have to be willing to let that in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we let it in,
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  SPEAKER_00: it begins to alchemize our total being,
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  SPEAKER_00: transfigure our total being in the direction of pure blossoming,
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  SPEAKER_00: pure flowering as grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this isn't about perfectionism.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't about needing to become perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't about trying to force some process of perfection.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the danger of speaking about this dimension of it,
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  SPEAKER_00: this purification,
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  SPEAKER_00: this sanctification.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just part of the gift.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just part of the way this endlessly opens into more of itself.
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  this remembrance of what this is can sink in on ever and ever
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  deeper levels.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can sink into our heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: our bones,
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  SPEAKER_00: our DNA,
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  SPEAKER_00: our cells,
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  SPEAKER_00: our atoms,
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  SPEAKER_00: our energy,
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  our infinite dimensional energy body here now can be alchemized
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  in the sunlight of
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  SPEAKER_00: pure,
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  SPEAKER_00: ever mysterious God nature,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ luminosity,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ fire,
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  SPEAKER_00: the fires of Brahman, the fires of Tao.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing to do,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to be,
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  SPEAKER_00: nowhere to go,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to know,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to prove,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to heal,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to achieve,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to accomplish,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to sanctify,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing to purify.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet, purification, sanctification,
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  happens spontaneously of its own accord when we open to this
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  heart of devotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least over here, that seems to be the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that's not the case over there, that's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is already it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is already the poem.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is already the artistry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it be as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest as home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest as wholeness.
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  And if the fires of grace spontaneously seem to keep inviting
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  you deeper into full
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  SPEAKER_00: body,
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  SPEAKER_00: total body,
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  SPEAKER_00: sanctification,
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  SPEAKER_00: alchemization,
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  SPEAKER_00: burning away the less true snake skins in the oven of unconditional love,
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  SPEAKER_00: then
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's so be it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, my friend, for listening.
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  In the name of the father,
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  the mother,
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  the son,
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  the daughter,
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  the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mystery bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mysterious presence bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: May you be home now.
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  SPEAKER_00: May you know that you are home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are whole.
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  SPEAKER_00: now.