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Empty Thine Cup to Receive · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Now is open.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coming from Italy on the island of Sardinia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is open.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is space.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is spaciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: What happens if you just experiment with
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  SPEAKER_00: Dropping all identifications,
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  SPEAKER_00: all identities,
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  SPEAKER_00: all attachments,
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  SPEAKER_00: all beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_00: all relationships,
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  SPEAKER_00: all conceptions of what you think life is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you just simply open to the now as if you had never seen it before,
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  SPEAKER_00: as if this sparkling,
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  SPEAKER_00: glistening
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  this this portal of openness this this astonishing space of
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  weightless luminous God
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  play this clear clearness this is clear weightless spaceless
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  invisible fire that
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  SPEAKER_00: nonetheless
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  SPEAKER_00: radiates shines forth as all of this colorful, formful poetry.
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  What if you just let yourself see it like a newborn baby who
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  was seeing it for the
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  SPEAKER_00: first time,
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  SPEAKER_00: who was just simply regaled,
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  SPEAKER_00: bowled over,
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  SPEAKER_00: awestruck,
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  Dumbstruck this joyful to have discovered that anything could
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  be at all that any
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  color could glisten that any sky could be so blue that a bird
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  could just float
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  SPEAKER_00: through that the
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  the sea she could see in the backdrop here that this
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  Mediterranean Sea could just
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  effolge effolge serenely on the horizon as a an appearance of
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  glistening serenity
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  SPEAKER_00: serenity
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  and Grace yeah just look at that sea back there look at that
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  peninsula we were on
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  that peninsula yesterday and oh man the most astounding the
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  most astounding rock
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  SPEAKER_00: formations literally looking like God's ice cream sundae just
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  melting with gargantuan Narnia like flavor utterly enchanted
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  like being on an alien
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  SPEAKER_00: planet a foreign world on every other planet we're the aliens we're the
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  extraterrestrials and earth is earth is the the alien planet
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  can you let yourself
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  SPEAKER_00: see this place we call earth
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  SPEAKER_00: as a foreign land.
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  Can you become a stranger in a strange land who forgot his
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  name,
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  forgot his identity?
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  SPEAKER_00: If only for a minute or two,
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  SPEAKER_00: just to let that bolt of lightning strike,
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  SPEAKER_00: to create enough openness to let the light in.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't discover how to empty your cup,
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  SPEAKER_00: then it cannot be filled by grace,
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  SPEAKER_00: by light,
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  SPEAKER_00: by divinity,
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  SPEAKER_00: by something
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  If your cup is so full with your stories and histories and
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  relationships and
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  attachments and life situations and to-do lists and your
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  laundry list of grievances
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  SPEAKER_00: and complaints and problems,
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  SPEAKER_00: then there's no room
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  There's no room for the thunderbolt of revelation to come in,
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  to strike,
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  to resound.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not to negate everything you're going through.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not to negate your problems and challenges.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are very real.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are human.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are people navigating a challenging world, a challenging layer within
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  within infinite infinite creation and yet and yet simple
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  freedom is available here
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  and now home is now you are home now is free now is joy now is
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  an ever-present
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  opportunity to completely hit the reset button to hit control
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  alt delete on your
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  SPEAKER_00: consciousness and just
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  SPEAKER_00: open to newness and freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: newness and freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: newness and freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the hugest and bestest.
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  Like an open tornado that's just waiting to whoosh away all
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  problems,
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  all apparent hangups and
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  All things that seem to be hooked and velcroed in a way that
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  feels sticky or
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  blocked There's an ever-present opportunity to just let your
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  entire house of
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  consensus reality just be whisked away by that Wizard of
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  Oz-like tornado of
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  SPEAKER_00: spaciousness now joyful vortex now
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  SPEAKER_00: And for this nowness to stand revealed as where you've always been.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eternity, eternity here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever experienced anything that didn't occur right now?
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  In and as the immediacy of now,
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  this now field,
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  this prayer field,
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  this Buddha field of
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  SPEAKER_00: of texture,
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  SPEAKER_00: of lusciousness,
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  SPEAKER_00: this ever-changing tapestry,
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  SPEAKER_00: this effulgence,
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  SPEAKER_00: a completely unsayable and unspeakable riddle,
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  SPEAKER_00: poem,
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  paradox that these words I'm saying now cannot touch or graze
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  either as the cows
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  SPEAKER_00: meander in the prairie and look on,
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  SPEAKER_00: bemused at this funny passerby,
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  SPEAKER_00: this funny ape-like
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  Humanoid,
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  trickster bard,
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  whatever I happen to be,
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  sojourning,
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  moseying along.
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  SPEAKER_00: The nice thing is I don't need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't need to know what I am, what I happen to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: I play roles in this world, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I play the role of a dad,
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  SPEAKER_00: a husband,
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  SPEAKER_00: a family man,
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  SPEAKER_00: a son,
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  SPEAKER_00: a brother,
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  SPEAKER_00: a friend,
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  SPEAKER_00: a lover of Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: a Christian.
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  who's also a lover of Zen and the Tao and the Vedantic
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  mysteries play the role of a
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  SPEAKER_00: writer,
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  SPEAKER_00: a speaker,
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  SPEAKER_00: a rapper,
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  SPEAKER_00: a creator.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I play all these roles,
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  but can any of these roles truly and finally define me or pin
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  me down or say what I
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  SPEAKER_00: am or what any of this is?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I would say.
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is great freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is great freedom.
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  The mysteriousness of everything holds immense freedom if you
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  can let yourself drop
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  SPEAKER_00: into unknowing,
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  SPEAKER_00: unknowing for even a minute or two.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I say,
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  if you can just forget everything you thought you knew about
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  life and who you were
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  SPEAKER_00: in the world,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can just suddenly find yourself
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  a stranger in a strange land where you can't say what you are
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  you can't say what
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  this tapestry of wonders is you can't say what this anything is
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  and you just kind
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  of you're just kind of melting into all of it you're you're one
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  with all of it you
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  can't be pulled apart from any of it it's all moving together
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  and and you don't
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  SPEAKER_00: need to say what it is because
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  SPEAKER_00: It's perfect contentment.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just simply is as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's about the truest thing anybody can say about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is as it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can call it
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  A glorious emanation of unknown God nectar from the Heavenly
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  Father and Mother
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  shining forth as pure radiant juiciness and with unbelievable
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  precision and
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  SPEAKER_00: functionality and artistry as we all gallivant along through this
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  SPEAKER_00: Unfathomably rich and vast world of wonders.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can attempt to poetically evoke it and categorize it,
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  SPEAKER_00: and yet it will always be more than that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's inexhaustible, as the Christians say.
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  Especially the Christian monks and mystics have really grokked
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  this subtle
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  Revelation of God's inexhaustibility,
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  the total inexhaustibility of infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's always more water in the well.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never experienced this moment before.
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  SPEAKER_00: This moment is ever fresh, ever new.
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  SPEAKER_00: This moment is a total revelation of newness and abundance.
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  SPEAKER_00: The nature of abundance is that this moment has never been seen before.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's true now and now and now for all of us.
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  Consider that on Earth alone 8 billion people each one in every
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  nanosecond having 8
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  billion new experiences that have never been experienced before
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  and that's true in
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  every single nanosecond such that a single day of what we call
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  Earth time contains
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  SPEAKER_00: an infinitude of novelty erupting from this super volcanic
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  SPEAKER_00: Dynamo of creative inspiration and intelligence that is just perpetually
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  SPEAKER_00: gurgitating newness,
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  SPEAKER_00: freshness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again,
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  these are ways that I can poetically evoke fresh possibilities
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  of looking directly
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  SPEAKER_00: here and now and noticing this openness and this freedom of
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  SPEAKER_00: But none of the words I'm saying can encapsulate it, can pin it down.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just too free.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just too open.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too direct.
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  It is all-pervading spirit and the play of all-pervading spirit
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  in and as formfulness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just open.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so...
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  SPEAKER_00: it's so purely open and free I mean look at this pathway leading to the
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  Mediterranean Sea I mean it's just it's utterly it's utterly
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  astounding it's
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  utterly beyond fathoming that anything could be at all and that
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  it happens to look
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  SPEAKER_00: like this
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  World of Wonders this Willy Wonka's chocolate factory of
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  phantasmagorical fun and
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  frankincense floating fluttering through itself and as itself
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  and with itself
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  we are immeasurably fortunate to be alive immeasurably
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  fortunate this is an
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  exceptional extravagant opulent treasure chest of boundless
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  boundless bizarreness
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  SPEAKER_00: and bounty bountiful beauty
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  Gorgeousness Radiant Nebulous Dripping Numinous Luminous Poetry
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  God Poems Splayed
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  Out Nakedly Revealed Nothing Hidden Nothing Revealed In A Deep
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  Sense It's Always
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  Been Standing Right Before You Gobsmacking You In The Forehead
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  God Smacking You In
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  SPEAKER_00: The Forehead Simplicity Of The Color Green
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  the flotation of a butterfly every single thing testifies to
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  infinity to the
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  nameless to what cannot be said to to limitless creative
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  capacity and intelligence
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  SPEAKER_00: and and omni functionality beyond all
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  SPEAKER_00: mechanistic metaphors.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is way beyond mechanistic.
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  The nature of this functionality is so omni jubilant and so
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  omnidimensionally intricate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's utterly unfathomable.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's utterly unfathomable.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this has been something of a
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  meandering video diary from Sardinia Italy transmitting some
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  impressions after
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  being on retreat the last few days here Gondor retreat what a
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  lovely experience
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  that was with some some good brothers good soul brothers food
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  for the soul medicine
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  SPEAKER_00: for the heart and
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
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  I'm just so grateful and deeply in awe of the treasures of this
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  island and the
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  SPEAKER_00: treasures all around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every location,
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  SPEAKER_00: every location holds the omnipresent open secret,
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  SPEAKER_00: the omnipresent freedom,
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  SPEAKER_00: the omnipresent openness
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no place where God's treasure chest is not.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all pervading.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, soak it in if you like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Check it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's here for the grazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's here for the slurping through a straw.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, imagine your whole consciousness as a giant.
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  SPEAKER_00: A giant.
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  Mouth that's just drinking in this vastness just drinking it in
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  from all angles let
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  yourself feel that it's it's a lot about just letting it in and
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  opening the
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  sensitivity to really receive the the astonishing poetry that
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  is is perpetually all
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  SPEAKER_00: around us so
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the message for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening and considering and sending love and hugs,
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  SPEAKER_00: sending love and hugs to you from Italy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Buddha bless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ bless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Much joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: One Love