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Here It Is! We Found It! 💚 · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We found it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We found it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We found it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The now moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The now moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: when you see it,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's just so...
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  SPEAKER_00: It's comical,
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  SPEAKER_00: really,
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  because it's like we've all been searching and seeking and
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  searching and seeking
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  SPEAKER_00: for...
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  we don't know what and we're grasping and craving and we're
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  desiring and we're
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  looking for it and we don't know what we're looking for and we
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  can't quite fill
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  SPEAKER_00: this void within and then at some point you're sufficiently ripe you're
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  SPEAKER_00: sufficiently ready to let it all go and just rest as now rest as
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  SPEAKER_00: The primal substratum of now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest as pure being now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest as pure presence now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you discover the home that has always been with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You discover the cathedral that has always been right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cathedral of now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you realize, oh, this is what I've always been looking for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We found it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been walloping us in the face the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the only vista we've ever gazed upon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's your immediate perception right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's ever-present.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's ever-present.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why do we overlook it?
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  SPEAKER_00: What causes us to overlook it?
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  The pristine simplicity of pure being pure and total relaxation
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  as being now.
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  What causes us to overlook that are the deeply entrenched and
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  calcified belief
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  SPEAKER_00: systems and identities.
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  that cause us to believe that we already know what this is and
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  that we know that
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  we're a small creature in a big world with a long to-do list
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  and we've got to run
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  this elaborate maze and obstacle course and jump through all
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  these hoops and maybe
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  SPEAKER_00: someday we'll reach the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: That entire web of constructs locks us in to a very narrow area
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  time-bound experience of reality and we start mistaking this
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  conceptual story of
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  life this conceptual time-bound linear story of life across
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  time for life itself we
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  start overlooking the only thing we ever truly have which is
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  the now moment you
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  know check for yourself have you ever been anywhere other than
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  now have you ever
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  SPEAKER_00: seen the past or seen the future or has it always been a
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  SPEAKER_00: Here and now, eternity.
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  We don't root our life in the kingdom of now,
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  the only thing that we truly have.
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  We spend all our time in an imaginary past,
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  an imaginary future,
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  and we rarely visit the now.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we could reverse that and root our lives in the kingdom now,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the pure beingness,
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  SPEAKER_00: and only visit the
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  SPEAKER_00: the past and future rarely,
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  when that might be pragmatically necessary to think about for
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  some purpose or when
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  SPEAKER_00: it spontaneously occurs,
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  that would be a complete shift of orientation that would allow
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  us to see the
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  SPEAKER_00: freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: see and feel the freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the fullness.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never experienced this moment before.
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  SPEAKER_00: This moment is ever new.
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  SPEAKER_00: The moment is a hyper immersive tapestry,
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  a hyper immersive vista that you are fully in and as zero
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  degrees of separation.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the tapestry.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are, you are the vista.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is full contact, full, a full contact sport, full sensory aliveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't let ourselves feel that though.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't let ourselves feel that non-separation.
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  We wall ourselves off inside of these belief systems and
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  constructs and they become
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  SPEAKER_00: calcified in the body.
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  They become this kind of energetic exoskeleton that is all
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  around us and creates
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  this feeling of separation and this feeling of being walled off
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  in this lonely and
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: depressive,
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  alienating existence as a small being who's separate from life
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  in this big,
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  SPEAKER_00: scary universe and has to navigate all this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there is another mode available.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another mode of being is available.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's always here now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've often been using
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  recently the example of that classical optical illusion of the
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  duck and the rabbit
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  the duck and the rabbit one moment you're seeing a duck you
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  shift perception a
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  little bit the next moment you're seeing a rabbit it's similar
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  to that one moment
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  you're a small being in an elaborate maze feeling like you have
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  to jump through 8
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  SPEAKER_00: 000 hoops maybe someday you'll get there the next moment
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  You relinquish all beliefs,
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  all ideas,
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  all opinions,
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  all perspectives,
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  all definitions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And suddenly you are a liberated flow of energy existing only now.
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  SPEAKER_00: An undefined spaciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: An undefined ocean of pure sensation, of pure presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the primal...
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  The primal intrinsic flavor of that ocean is one of utter
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  equipoise,
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  utter repose.
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  The ocean,
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  the primal beingness itself is in a space of pure peace,
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  pure relaxation.
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  The appearing itself,
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  the instantaneous appearing of this moment is fully effortless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you notice that?
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  SPEAKER_00: It requires zero effort for this moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: this flash of vividness to appear fully complete,
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  SPEAKER_00: all the sense fields utterly overflowing with texture and sensation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That happens instantaneously in the moment, ever fresh.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prior moment vanishes like smoke.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now it's a new one and a new one and a new one.
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  SPEAKER_00: It continuously refreshes itself with zero effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all of our sense-making and all of our storytelling exists,
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  SPEAKER_00: in a sense,
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  SPEAKER_00: far downstream of that primal refreshment,
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  SPEAKER_00: the primal refreshment of now and now and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: effortlessly refreshing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Effortlessly generating,
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  SPEAKER_00: conjuring itself as this apparition,
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  SPEAKER_00: this aliveness,
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  SPEAKER_00: this vividness,
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  SPEAKER_00: now and now and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when we learn to become more subtle,
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  we become more subtle in our sensing of immediate reality
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  instead of living inside
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  SPEAKER_00: of this very...
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  two-dimensional very low fidelity story in our mind instead of
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  trying to fit the
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  ocean of pure infinity into the film canister of a story we
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  stop doing that we
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  discard the film canister we open to the ocean itself this this
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  pure infinity of
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  SPEAKER_00: freshness notice that
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an infinity of detail here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could spend a billion eons writing endless treatises,
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  SPEAKER_00: trying to describe all the detail of this one moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you would fall short.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the vast majority of it is beyond what we even have language for,
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  SPEAKER_00: or what we could possibly have language for,
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  SPEAKER_00: because it's that subtle,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's that high definition,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's that vivid.
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  SPEAKER_00: 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: We don't know what light is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've cut ourselves off from the freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the beginner's mind,
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  SPEAKER_00: the child mind,
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  SPEAKER_00: the direct,
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  SPEAKER_00: the direct intimacy,
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  SPEAKER_00: zero filters,
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  SPEAKER_00: zero degrees of separation,
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  SPEAKER_00: direct bathing,
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  SPEAKER_00: immersing,
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  SPEAKER_00: not just forest bathing,
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  SPEAKER_00: kingdom bathing,
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  SPEAKER_00: bathing in the kingdom of
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  SPEAKER_00: of now bathing in the body of infinity.
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  We are the body of infinity emanating,
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  expressing itself,
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  gyrating as this fluidity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this utter fluidity, it's flowing like a river.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so free now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so free.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where's the previous moment?
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  SPEAKER_00: It vanishes like smoke.
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  The river just continuously,
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  dynamically effulges into the next iteration of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zero effort required.
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  SPEAKER_00: Zero labor required on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: A spontaneous happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's doing itself in a very, very deep sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: No maintenance required.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's doing itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are we?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are we?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are we?
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  It turns out that staying with these most fundamental questions
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  bears enormous fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you don't stay with them philosophically.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't think about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: You immediately investigate them.
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  You look for,
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  what am I even referring to when I say me,
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  when I say Jordan?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, there's some semblance of what seems to be a body here
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  SPEAKER_00: you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet, what is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Normally,
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  I can't even see my own head unless I look in a mirror or I
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  look into a camera like
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  SPEAKER_00: this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time, we're not even seeing our head.
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  SPEAKER_00: The immediate phenomenological experience is more like a pure openness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a pure space, a pure openness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you really even locate a subject within that openness?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is there a definable center to that?
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  Because we typically superimpose a sense of a center point,
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  a sense of a self as a kind of
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  nexus a kind of module that we feel is generally located around
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  this area and
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  everything is kind of happening to that module but can you
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  really find that look
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  and see or is there just this fullness this openness this
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  dynamism this pure
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  indefinability this utterly undefined radiance that when you
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  allow it to remain
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  undefined when you allow it to be undefined that's when that's
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  when you let it in
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  that's when you let the light in that's when you seek ye first
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  the kingdom of god
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  the way to the kingdom of god here now is to let it all be
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  undefined relinquish all
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  SPEAKER_00: identities all definitions melt into that engage
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  that fullness melt into that regularly playfully this doesn't
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  have to be a big
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  serious practice can just be a simple noticing of what is ever
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  present and beyond
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  SPEAKER_00: definition pure nowness vastness spaciousness and infinity of detail and
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  SPEAKER_00: Those types of noticings,
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  those types of allowing yourself to return to beginner's mind
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  here and now turn out
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  SPEAKER_00: to be cumulative.
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  They accumulate and over time they shift your foundational
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  orientation toward
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  reality where your embodied experience becomes more grounded in
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  the true ground.
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  Grounded on the earth too perhaps but also grounded in the
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  sacred ground,
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  the ground of being.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ground of nowness.
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  What is actually vividly,
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  undeniably,
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  unavoidably,
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  inescapably,
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  unpricably here now.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is truly undeniably here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there are a lot of ways to go about this exploration.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've tried to touch on some of them.
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  I've tried to speak about something in this video that is
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  ultimately impossible to
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  SPEAKER_00: put into words,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we can gesture toward it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it points toward a possibility of simple freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now a very different way of living life,
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  SPEAKER_00: radically different from what our culture has generally taught us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there is immense,
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  SPEAKER_00: Freedom and openness, spaciousness, love, intrinsic peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: This wholeness gives off an ambiance of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't reject any aspect of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in a profound sense, there are no parts or aspects of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is pure wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: The waves are the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: What seem to be separate waves are the ocean of being.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an experiential reality that you can tap into.
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  And I would suggest to you that it's deeply,
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  deeply worthwhile to explore this.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's deeply worthwhile.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: can recommend the writings and audios of Peter Brown,
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  SPEAKER_00: John Astin,
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  SPEAKER_00: Eckhart Tolle,
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  SPEAKER_00: Joan Tollefson,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: Anandamai Ma,
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  SPEAKER_00: Yogananda.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
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  there are so many sages and mystics throughout the ages who
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  have pointed really
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  SPEAKER_00: beautifully in their own way to
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  SPEAKER_00: This here now,
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  SPEAKER_00: this astonishing miracle here now,
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  SPEAKER_00: and what happens when we seek first the kingdom of God here and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: when we root our lives there,
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  SPEAKER_00: when we open our hearts to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: which is something that can happen over time.
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  This ever-present grace can open the heart,
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  purify and sanctify the heart.
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  Every level of the body can be increasingly purified as these
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  old energetic
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  exoskeletons peel away and we start to embody the primal
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  qualities of reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: We embody that fluidity,
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  SPEAKER_00: that peace,
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  SPEAKER_00: that love,
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  SPEAKER_00: that harmony,
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  SPEAKER_00: that compassion,
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  SPEAKER_00: that openness,
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  SPEAKER_00: spaciousness,
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  SPEAKER_00: vastness.
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  mystery we become a living riddle in a sense we discover an
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  embodied freedom of
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  being beyond identity beyond definition even as life may invite
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  us to play any
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  number of roles we know ourselves beyond identity that is uh
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  that's what's being
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  SPEAKER_00: pointed to here
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  SPEAKER_00: Knowing yourself beyond identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beyond name and form.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you?
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  SPEAKER_00: You might want to find out.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace.