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The Highest Form of Magic: Why the Lead is Already the Gold · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Standing on the finish line.
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  SPEAKER_00: Standing on pure completion.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never seen the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've never seen the future.
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  If I look at experience,
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  this present experiencing is all that I've ever known.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I get really honest,
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  I only know the past or the future as a thought,
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  a mental image right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here now is all I've ever known, the only placeless place I've ever been.
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  SPEAKER_00: And who is this I that I'm referring to?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what this is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This cannot be thought.
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  SPEAKER_00: It cannot be compressed into any kind of finite knowledge,
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  SPEAKER_00: any formulatable,
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  SPEAKER_00: encapsulatable knowledge in the form of a theory,
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  SPEAKER_00: an idea,
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  SPEAKER_00: a belief,
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  SPEAKER_00: an opinion,
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  SPEAKER_00: a hypothesis.
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  The medium is too low fidelity and so it will always vastly
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  miss the mark because
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  SPEAKER_00: this is immediate fullness of dynamic infinity radiating through itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: shining forth through itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Simply look at the level of detail of anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an infinity of vividness
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  SPEAKER_00: an infinity of high definition detail in the simplest of things,
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  SPEAKER_00: you pick up a leaf,
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  SPEAKER_00: you look at it,
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  SPEAKER_00: we simply reduce this down and we say, leaf.
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  And we think that because we invented a mouth noise to refer to
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  an approximate
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  SPEAKER_00: pattern or category that seems to recur within whatever this field is,
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  SPEAKER_00: we think that we actually know what this is.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've come up with a word
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  that acts as a reference point that allows us to say oh yeah
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  that's that's roughly
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  similar to this other category of things so it allows us to
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  communicate with each
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  other and we know that when the another person says look at
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  that leaf they're
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  saying look at that patterned appearance within this strange
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  field of apparition
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  SPEAKER_00: that
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  bears a similarity to this category of patterned appearances
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  that we have labeled leaf.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what are those patterned appearances?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are any of these patterned appearances?
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  SPEAKER_00: I certainly won't deny that there is a personal emanation here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I see this face in the camera right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet what is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that face?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that being?
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  Is this being of what we typically call Jordan Bates in any way
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  truly separate from
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  SPEAKER_00: the earth,
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  SPEAKER_00: from the cosmos,
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  SPEAKER_00: from this infinity?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can he be separated out?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because sure, I won't deny at all that there is a unique flavor here.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a song that only I can sing.
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  There's a recognizable texture of JB-ness that is emanating
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  from the general
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  SPEAKER_00: vicinity of this differentiated portion of the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I do deeply feel that it's...
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  SPEAKER_00: that it's important and vital to honor that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't get me wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: I honor our sacramental journeys.
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  SPEAKER_00: I honor relationality.
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  I honor the individual flavor,
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  the individual soulfulness of any of these flowerings.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet, when I look at this body, it looks and feels akin to
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  SPEAKER_00: A flower that is coming out of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is like a blossoming of a flower.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the earth is like the stalk of that flower.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cosmos is like the stalk of that flower.
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  SPEAKER_00: The totality of whatever this is, this field.
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  of nowness feels like the stalk of the flower and this jbness
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  here this this ever
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  morphing ever shifting jbness that i've never experienced in
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  this precise way
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  before feels like the temporary a temporary blossom appearing
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  on that rose bush of
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  SPEAKER_00: nowness
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  SPEAKER_00: and is utterly intrinsically inseparable from that rose bush of nowness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Similarly,
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  SPEAKER_00: you could say a temporary wave appearing on the surface of the ocean,
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  SPEAKER_00: utterly inseparable from that ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the ocean now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eureka!
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  SPEAKER_00: We found it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the motherlode.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: The realest thing we've ever known or encountered,
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  SPEAKER_00: the only thing we've ever known or encountered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I say that I don't know what it is and I don't know what I am,
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  that can seem confronting to the mind that is always grasping
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  after its definitions
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  and always wanting to tightly get its hands on this very clear
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  narrative of,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh yeah,
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  that's my past and that's what happened to me and this is my
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  identity and these are
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  my opinions and this is how I act in these situations and this
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  is what I need to do
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  SPEAKER_00: to get from point A to point B.
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  SPEAKER_00: That entire complex can be so heavy
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  There can be so much separation and so much suffering laden
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  within that entire construction.
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  And the mind grasps after it so intensely for a feeling of some
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  sense of safety,
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  SPEAKER_00: some sense of security.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet there is a cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very...
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very painful to be so deeply identified with limited narratives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's not always deeply painful,
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  SPEAKER_00: but over time,
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  SPEAKER_00: reality has a way of undercutting all limited narratives,
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  SPEAKER_00: revealing all limited narratives and identities to have been inaccurate
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  SPEAKER_00: constructions.
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  finite attempts to bottle up infinity to take this infinite
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  super ocean of totality
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  now and compress it into a golf ball sized module a pokeball
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  can't be done can't be
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  done and so there's another possibility available and you could
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  say a different
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  SPEAKER_00: type of knowing yes in a sense
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what this is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could never... It's clear that I could never say what anything is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can't be said.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet in another sense, I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do totally know this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it with profound intimacy because I am it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no separation whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am this ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am this flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am utterly intimate with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no medium.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're like hearts without skin, as John Astin has beautifully put it.
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  We are utterly,
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  utterly intimate with this ever-refreshing river of sensations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have intimately,
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  intimately explored it and intimately open to many of its
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  primal qualities of rest,
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  SPEAKER_00: wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: peace,
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  SPEAKER_00: repose,
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  SPEAKER_00: equipoise,
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  SPEAKER_00: all embracingness,
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  SPEAKER_00: all embracing love,
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  SPEAKER_00: grace,
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  SPEAKER_00: flow,
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  SPEAKER_00: fluidity,
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  SPEAKER_00: artistry,
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  SPEAKER_00: juiciness,
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  SPEAKER_00: devotion.
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  And so I do know it on incredibly intimate levels,
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  and it feels deeply native to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel at home.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel a deep at-homeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love this nowness.
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  SPEAKER_00: This nowness is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: This nowness is me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet this form of knowledge is not
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a pinning down.
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  It's an opening up into infinite knowledge because this way of
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  knowing does not
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  SPEAKER_00: have an end point.
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  Just like this nowness,
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  it just forever opens and blossoms into more of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every moment is a revelation.
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  Every moment is an infinity of novel information cascading
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  through pure beingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are truly continually...
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  opening continually discovering continually blossoming into
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  more and more and more
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  of what is here and it doesn't it doesn't pin down it doesn't
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  pin itself down to
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  the contrary it just forever forever opens into more of itself
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  forever blossoms
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  into more of itself as far as I can see and you don't have to
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  turn this into a new
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  SPEAKER_00: belief system you can't
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't crystallize this as a belief.
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  The moment that you try to lock it into a structure of belief,
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  you've missed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've missed it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like trying to grab a river in your hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all just going to trickle through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because this is too slippery.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too wavy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too fluid.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too... It's a living riddle.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's everything at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can't step outside of it to observe it objectively because we are it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are it and nothing else can be found.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me know if you find something else other than present experiencing.
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  Let me know if you find something else other than totality,
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  presence,
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  being.
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  I've looked far and wide,
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  never found myself anywhere other than here now,
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  here now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I spent a lot of years traveling to the ends of the earth,
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  SPEAKER_00: traveling to,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: whatever,
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  SPEAKER_00: 30 some countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: I explored deeply with most of the
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  most of the well-known entheogenic medicines on the planet
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  exploring the far
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  reaches of what is possible through consciousness and visionary
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  states mystical
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  experiences revelation samadhi cessation you know you name it i
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  have explored a
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  SPEAKER_00: massive bandwidth of what is possible in this earthly experience and i'm
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad I did that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was incredibly enriching and beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the same time,
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  SPEAKER_00: the big joke of it all,
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  the punchline at the end of the day is that the most precious
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  treasure that I
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  discovered through all that searching was the discovery of a
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  treasure that had been
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  SPEAKER_00: with me the whole time.
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  SPEAKER_00: since birth and very likely prior to birth,
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  SPEAKER_00: I would intuit the now moment,
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  SPEAKER_00: this presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: this wholeness here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The highest form of magic, of wizardry, of alchemy is not to
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  manifest something out there or change your life in some way or
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  get something get
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  from point a to point b no it's to discover what has always
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  been right in front of
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  you all along that is what that is what transfigures the lead
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  of mundane ordinary
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  SPEAKER_00: day-to-day humdrum experience of
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, I'm just little old me, moseying along.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gotta handle the daily to-do list here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This discovery transfigures the lead of that into the gold.
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  that was always there it reveals the gold that was always there
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  the lead has always
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  been made of gold is the discovery it's not about getting
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  somewhere else it's not
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  about finding something else someplace out else it's not about
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  manifestation it's
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  not about magic in the sense of asserting your will upon upon
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  this earth that is
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all a distraction from the view of what is most illuminating,
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  SPEAKER_00: what is most foundational,
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  SPEAKER_00: the most pristine,
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  SPEAKER_00: purest form of magic,
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  SPEAKER_00: which becomes indistinguishable from prayer,
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  SPEAKER_00: from meditation,
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  SPEAKER_00: from surrender,
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  SPEAKER_00: from devotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: from illumination,
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  SPEAKER_00: enlightenment,
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  SPEAKER_00: awakening,
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  SPEAKER_00: and healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these things
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  SPEAKER_00: eventually melt into the same thing,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is just clearly seeing what has always been the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Clearly seeing that the now moment has always been home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Relinquishing the clouds in front of the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: The primary thing that prevents us from seeing
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  that this moment is already the gold that the alchemist has
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  been searching for.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lead is already the gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lead is already the gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the primary thing that blocks us from seeing that,
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  SPEAKER_00: seeing the sun behind the clouds,
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  are all of these cloud-like beliefs and opinions where we have
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  arrogantly assumed
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  SPEAKER_00: that we already know what life is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's quite tragic.
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  SPEAKER_00: In our arrogant world,
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  SPEAKER_00: And very innocent,
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  SPEAKER_00: very,
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  SPEAKER_00: very innocent assumption,
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  our deeply conditioned assumption that we already know what I
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  am and what life is
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  SPEAKER_00: and what the world is.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all this stuff going on out here,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I gotta get from point A to point B,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I gotta check all these things off the to-do list,
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  SPEAKER_00: and all these things happened to me,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I was wronged in these ways,
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  SPEAKER_00: and X and Y,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm holding on to this and that,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I need to da-da-da-da-da-da.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: that we become encased in,
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  SPEAKER_00: entangled in,
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  SPEAKER_00: encaged in,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then we don't realize we start living in a story.
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  SPEAKER_00: We cease to live in the actuality of our present experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is always effulging forth as this wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: this vastness,
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  SPEAKER_00: this fullness,
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  SPEAKER_00: this
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  SPEAKER_00: This simplicity, this utter simplicity.
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  It's a pure boundlessness in a conditionless condition of total
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  simplicity,
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  SPEAKER_00: peace,
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  SPEAKER_00: repose,
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  SPEAKER_00: freedom,
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  SPEAKER_00: all embracingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always been right here.
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  Yet we have created clouds in front of our eyes that prevent us
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  from seeing what's
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  SPEAKER_00: always right in front of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't realize that we have all these appliances,
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  SPEAKER_00: all these conceptual overlays that are coloring our perception,
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  SPEAKER_00: and all we're seeing is our own story.
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  All we're seeing is our own story,
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  our own finite story,
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  which cannot contain infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is non-finitude, non-quantifiability.
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  SPEAKER_00: This cannot be
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  SPEAKER_00: This cannot be encapsulated in any kind of structure.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too slippery.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too totalizing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too everything at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we've made a foundational error.
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  Our culture has made a foundational error that it keeps passing
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  on and on and on
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  SPEAKER_00: and on,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is to mistake the map for the territory and to habitually
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  condition all of us from the time that we're very small
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  children to continue this
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  trend of mistaking the map for the territory and living inside
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  of a map instead of
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  opening to the vastness of the ever-present ever-complete
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  territory the light of
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  SPEAKER_00: pure being
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  And it creates suffering to live inside of an inaccurate map
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  because we're not living with
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  actuality of our experience as it as it truly is as it truly
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  presents we are trying
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  to take this infinite fluid ever morphing super ocean and
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  trying to make it fit
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  within the the film canister the petri dish of our small
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  limited perspective and
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  naturally there's going to be a friction there because it just
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  doesn't fit it's
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  SPEAKER_00: never going to
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  And the more we try to impose our small opinions and our small
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  narratives onto this
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  SPEAKER_00: vastness,
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  SPEAKER_00: the more that we will be inevitably frustrated because...
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't fit.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't fit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we have to engage in endless self-deception,
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  SPEAKER_00: trying to make it all fit,
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  SPEAKER_00: trying to make it all fit into our narrative and our story.
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  And we get angry at people who challenge our narrative and
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  challenge our story
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  because we've invested so much of our identity and our
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  foundational self-worth and
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  SPEAKER_00: security in these belief structures,
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  SPEAKER_00: belief systems that can't contain infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we habitually,
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  SPEAKER_00: for hundreds,
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  SPEAKER_00: thousands of years,
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  SPEAKER_00: we end up actually murdering,
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  SPEAKER_00: dismembering
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  SPEAKER_00: our fellow human beings,
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  SPEAKER_00: including women,
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  SPEAKER_00: children,
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  who simply hold a different belief system than we do because
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  we've become so
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  attached to these finite models with such a deep need to hang
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  onto them and grasp
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  onto them so tightly and prove that we have the correct model
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  that we become
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  willing to literally murder someone who challenges our belief
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  system or holds a
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  SPEAKER_00: different belief system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even if it doesn't go all the way to physical murder,
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  there is an ungodly quantity of information warfare and
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  political warfare and
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  SPEAKER_00: squabbling and tribal violence happening all the time all around us.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  the internet at this stage and age is basically a cesspool of
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  everyone viciously
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  SPEAKER_00: vomiting their...
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  opinions at one another with almost no one realizing that all
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  of these opinions are wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: All opinions are wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: No belief is true.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, nothing you can ever put into words is true.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always partial.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always inaccurate, including what I'm saying right now.
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  I'm just trying to use language to build a bridge and translate
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  to something that
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  SPEAKER_00: is fundamentally beyond language.
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  So this is the deep point that we really,
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  we would need to grok this as a species.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would need a critical mass of people to start to grok this limitation.
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  SPEAKER_00: of all belief,
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  SPEAKER_00: all thought,
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  SPEAKER_00: all opinion,
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  SPEAKER_00: all spoken words,
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  if we wanted to truly end the war within ourselves and
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  therefore end all external
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  SPEAKER_00: wars.
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  All external wars have their root in a foundational delusion of
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  separation.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the most foundational things
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  inaccurate beliefs that fuels our civilization is the belief
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  that I am a separate
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  SPEAKER_00: me over here and the rest of the world is over there.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is inaccurate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Investigate that and find out for yourself if that's really true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have we not arisen from this earth just like the trees or the flowers?
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  Is the earth not peopling in the same way that it's treeing and
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  animaling?
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  SPEAKER_00: We arose from the dust.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not at all separable from the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't have us without the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't have the earth without the galaxy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't have the galaxy without the cosmos.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't have the cosmos without whatever...
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  SPEAKER_00: this foundational wholeness, totality is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, we are in no way truly separate at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are waves on the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what we do to one another, we do to ourselves in a very deep sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we do to one another, we do to our own children, to our own bodies.
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  As Christ put it,
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  what ye do to the least among you,
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  this you also do to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is what we foundationally have not understood,
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  which is why we think we can just get away with being unkind
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  and mean and violent
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  SPEAKER_00: to people and animals,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we're doing it to our own selves,
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  and we're perpetuating a legacy of violence that we then
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  continue to pass on to our
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  SPEAKER_00: children and grandchildren.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if we would like to uproot that,
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  we have to very courageously question our beliefs,
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  question our most foundational assumptions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask, can I really know that that is true?
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  SPEAKER_00: And again,
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  SPEAKER_00: I would propose that if you truly put any belief under the microscope,
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  SPEAKER_00: you'll discover that it's not a complete truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an inaccurate partialization.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might have some usefulness,
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  SPEAKER_00: The mind is a useful tool for all sorts of things.
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  Like this translation that I'm attempting to weave right now to
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  something beyond the mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that is what we would need to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: We would need to ultimately reach a critical mass of people relinquishing
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  SPEAKER_00: All beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_00: or at least seeing through all beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_00: seeing the foundational limitation of belief.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you've seen that,
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  you can still play with stories and beliefs and perspectives
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  and craft skillful
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  SPEAKER_00: perspectives and skillful stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet you're aware of their inaccuracy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're aware of their limitations.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  as you do that process that sounds very confronting and
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  challenging to the mind,
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  because it doesn't want to loosen its vice grip on all of its
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  most cherished
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  SPEAKER_00: beliefs and ideas and opinions,
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  SPEAKER_00: yet when you engage that,
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  SPEAKER_00: that is when,
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  SPEAKER_00: again,
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  SPEAKER_00: you discover that the lead has always been made of gold,
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  SPEAKER_00: the lead of
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  SPEAKER_00: Your small,
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  SPEAKER_00: mundane,
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  SPEAKER_00: shitty life,
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  SPEAKER_00: if that's how some people see their life,
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  SPEAKER_00: has always been the gold of fullness,
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  SPEAKER_00: of wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: of non-separation from infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are infinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are nameless, nameless boundlessness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you relinquish these finite stories,
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  the experiential quality that begins to effulge and emerge is
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  one of homecoming,
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  SPEAKER_00: one of returning home,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling home here now,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling whole here now,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling full here now,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling peace and rest here now,
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  SPEAKER_00: feeling a sense of freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: a sense of noticing.
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  SPEAKER_00: that you've never seen this moment before.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've never seen anything before in a sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is fresh.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is new.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything is continuously opening into a brand new iteration of itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every moment is an immersive hyper-tapestry of novelty,
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  SPEAKER_00: a master artwork from the heart of creative intelligence
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  SPEAKER_00: And you are that tapestry.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are that artwork.
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  What you're conceiving of as you is a non-separate portion of
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  that boundless
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  SPEAKER_00: emanation that every moment is.
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  And so the relinquishment of fixed beliefs and the
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  relinquishment of grasping after
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  SPEAKER_00: fixed beliefs
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  The relinquishment of this sense of needing to make it all fit
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  into some belief
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  SPEAKER_00: structure,
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  SPEAKER_00: some neat and tidy story.
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  Seeing the foundational limitation of that,
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  the foundational way that that will not work.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will never work.
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  SPEAKER_00: No belief will ever be completely true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every belief is an inaccurate partialization.
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  SPEAKER_00: seeing that very deeply,
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  SPEAKER_00: that entire mechanism starts to lose its grip on you,
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  SPEAKER_00: starts to lose its power.
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  That endless movement of trying to get a handle on things and
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  trying to find the
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  SPEAKER_00: answer to things relaxes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It relaxes and it gradually dissolves more and more.
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  And there's more and more of an opening and openness to not
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  needing to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not needing to know a damn thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other than, here it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the sun of pure being, the sunlight of pure being.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is all I've ever known.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what we're all looking for in our heart of hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's always been right in front of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is devotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is poetry.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is simplicity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pure simplicity.
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  We're so good at complicating life,
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  and meanwhile,
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  life is always only now.
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  SPEAKER_00: What could be more simple?
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  SPEAKER_00: Life is always only now, and the now is already done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before you can even think about it, the now is already done.
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  in this instantaneous flash,
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  this instantaneous shining forth,
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  the now is done.
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  SPEAKER_00: The now is complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now is all there is.
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  SPEAKER_00: What could be simpler?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's too simple for words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Too intimate for words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Too close for words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Silence swallows all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, my friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace and love to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be well.