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Grace of Now Meditation: Infusing Christ, Non-Duality, & Entheogenic Medicine · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just taking some deep breaths here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll drop in for meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Breathing in the purest love here and now, purest wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: purest freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is grace, is truth here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Non-duality,
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  SPEAKER_00: Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Entheogen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a deep sense, all of these words
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  SPEAKER_00: is not really a thing,
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  SPEAKER_00: not an object,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it is the
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  SPEAKER_00: fact of
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  SPEAKER_00: your immediate experience right now,
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  SPEAKER_00: immediate presence right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: These words may evoke different flavors or qualities of this presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this may show up differently for different beings.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, the word Christ really evokes
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  SPEAKER_00: The inmost part of this presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: the shining forth of this presence as divine love,
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  SPEAKER_00: the quality of this presence that is intrinsically loving toward all of itself,
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  SPEAKER_00: all-encompassing love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps this is what
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  SPEAKER_00: Realization feels like when it sinks into the physical heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: the heart center, center of the chest.
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  SPEAKER_00: presence can also shine forth as
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  SPEAKER_00: personal emanations like you or me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I experience Christ as another one of those emanations who,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the appearance of things, visited Earth many moons ago physically.
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  SPEAKER_00: And who still resides here omnipresently in the all-pervading ethers and who
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  SPEAKER_00: is
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  SPEAKER_00: a beautiful friend and redeemer who we can devotionally connect to.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, the word non-duality
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  SPEAKER_00: It has more of an immediate
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  SPEAKER_00: bare bones
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  SPEAKER_00: quality to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me,
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  SPEAKER_00: non-duality points to Simple presence here and now this all inclusive presence here
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  SPEAKER_00: and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It has a little bit more of a scientific flavor to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the word non duality just simply means not to this points to this
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  SPEAKER_00: Naked discovery that this presence here is undivided,
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  SPEAKER_00: that it is whole, that you are in no way apart from the ocean of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wave is the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are the whole dance, the whole shebang, the whole shooting match, the whole enchilada.
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  SPEAKER_00: And simultaneously, you are
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  SPEAKER_00: Non-separate wave of this ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: You still have this aspect of you,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is this distinct,
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  SPEAKER_00: individuated, differentiated,
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  SPEAKER_00: non-separate
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  SPEAKER_00: expression as an individual.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet the individual in another deep sense does not exist,
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  SPEAKER_00: at least not as a separate entity,
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  SPEAKER_00: because again, the wave is never apart from the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wave is a movement, an expression of the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the word entheogen
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe means something like divinely manifesting,
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  SPEAKER_00: manifesting the divine or evoking,
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  SPEAKER_00: calling in the divine,
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  SPEAKER_00: materializing the divine here and now, God revealing, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And entheogens, these medicine teachers, these Gaian medicines,
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  SPEAKER_00: They have a flavor that's very nature connected, very earthly.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're very deeply woven into the many apparent layers
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  SPEAKER_00: of this infinite dimensional emanation
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  SPEAKER_00: of reality, of being.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're very attuned to The inner child,
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  SPEAKER_00: the heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: our connection to the Earth,
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  SPEAKER_00: Mother Gaia, connection to animals and plants and ecosystems.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're also profoundly connected to the transcendent and
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  SPEAKER_00: pure,
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  SPEAKER_00: naked non-duality here and now, and to the Christ heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: Centerless center, the inmost heart of being.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're connected to both the transcendent and the imminent,
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  SPEAKER_00: seeing that these are both right here, right now, and not separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah,
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  SPEAKER_00: they tend to be very wise in their connectedness to many Apparent levels and layers
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  SPEAKER_00: of this undivided wholeness of being.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're very good at reminding us to stay grounded on earth in our humanity and
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  SPEAKER_00: to
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  SPEAKER_00: open our hearts to grounded care for this world, for what is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: All the beings and children, plants and animals here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those are some of the different flavors that these words can evoke
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  SPEAKER_00: for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, though, it's very important to remember
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  SPEAKER_00: That the word Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: the word non-duality and the word enteogen,
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  SPEAKER_00: they all point to this living radiant presence here and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: because this presence is all inclusive.
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  SPEAKER_00: If Jesus Christ himself appeared before you now,
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  SPEAKER_00: He would be appearing in and as this radiant presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is an inescapability of this nowness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever been anywhere other than nowness, presence, being?
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  SPEAKER_00: Try to go somewhere other than nowness, presence, being?
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  SPEAKER_00: You may find that you cannot and
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  SPEAKER_00: this is not something to bemoan.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not like you're trapped in a cage.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a joyous inescapability because now is home.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now is your cozy eternal home and it's your birthright to be there
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  SPEAKER_00: and no one can Remove you from home because you are home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this home.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this
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  SPEAKER_00: timeless abode of nowness, of presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: of divinity.
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  SPEAKER_00: The wave does not need to escape the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why would it want to?
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  SPEAKER_00: It is the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ocean is its nature.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ocean is its mother and father.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can trust itself to what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can trust itself to the river.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can trust itself to this Tao River.
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  SPEAKER_00: This Christ heart,
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  SPEAKER_00: this Gaian, entheogenic non-duality, non-separation.
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  SPEAKER_00: there's not much else to say really.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way more words you say, the more you miss the mark and the farther away you get.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really, I'm just trying to tell you that you are home now.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is home now.
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  SPEAKER_00: The truth of life is not an idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not an idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are living fact, are you not?
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  SPEAKER_00: Chair is not an idea, living actuality, a vivid presence,
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  SPEAKER_00: a tactile,
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  SPEAKER_00: sensuous presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And everything is that, everything is this undivided,
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  SPEAKER_00: Energetic presence that we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you might say, who cares?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who cares about that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why would I want to know that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, some people are just simply thirsty for truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a longing to know what am I?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is this?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll never find the answer to that question as an idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's an immediate felt beingness.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a melting in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And simultaneously, the discovery of this tends
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  SPEAKER_00: Because so much of our suffering arises due to a false identification
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  SPEAKER_00: where we identify
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  SPEAKER_00: a small partialized being and we concretize all
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  SPEAKER_00: of these interpretations about what life is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We cut life up into a thousand pieces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rigidly grasp onto our narrative and our story about how life is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this creates the sense of being a separate being in a vast universe
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  SPEAKER_00: of separate objects that has to
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  SPEAKER_00: Navigate this big labyrinth and some of these separate objects and entities are seen
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  SPEAKER_00: to be wrong or scary.
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  SPEAKER_00: It creates this whole drama.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in the appearance of things,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the appearance of life,
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  SPEAKER_00: there may well be apparent traumas and situations to navigate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet,
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  SPEAKER_00: as we return home to what is prior to all definitions,
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  SPEAKER_00: all interpretations,
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  SPEAKER_00: all concretizations,
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  SPEAKER_00: we just discover this very simple wholeness,
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  SPEAKER_00: simple undivided clarity,
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  SPEAKER_00: spaciousness,
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  SPEAKER_00: openness,
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  SPEAKER_00: Here and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: prior to all concepts,
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  SPEAKER_00: prior to all ideas,
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  SPEAKER_00: life is already here before you have an idea about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life is already here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're returning to this aliveness that is already here before there's any idea about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a way, returning to infant mind, naked mind, beginner mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that there can be this real freshness,
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  SPEAKER_00: this flow,
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  SPEAKER_00: this simplicity,
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  SPEAKER_00: wholeness, peace, rest,
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  SPEAKER_00: the grace of the unconditioned,
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  SPEAKER_00: an all-encompassing welcomingness and love that's
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  SPEAKER_00: uncontainable, inexpressible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Inexhaustible and utterly simple, utterly simple, just right here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are this utterly simple fact of being here and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: utterly simple,
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  SPEAKER_00: undivided field of pure being here and now,
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  SPEAKER_00: prior to all ideas, prior to all notions of birth and death and life and awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Being someone or something prior to all those ideas you are
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  SPEAKER_00: simply what is,
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  SPEAKER_00: simply what is, simple isness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this communication is essentially an invitation Inviting you home to the isness
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  SPEAKER_00: that you already are.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's rather a paradox because how could there be a path from now to now?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm literally saying you already are this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there's no way to achieve this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's just an ever present opportunity to notice What you already are prior to any ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: This fullness, this empty fullness, this radiance, this luminosity, no-thingness, suchness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Satchitananda.
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  SPEAKER_00: Satchitananda.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not really much else to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here this is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are already wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are already free.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are already love, already grace, already
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  SPEAKER_00: perfection, finality.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is already God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the greatest treasure has already been given.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are standing on the finish line.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're standing on infinity dollars.
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  SPEAKER_00: You cannot put a price on the miraculousness of pure, radiant being.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can never own this, but you can see that it's what you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fullness,
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  SPEAKER_00: radiant,
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  SPEAKER_00: heart luminosity,
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  SPEAKER_00: Of the loving,
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  SPEAKER_00: all pervading Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: the universal Christ,
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  SPEAKER_00: universal river of Tao,
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  SPEAKER_00: source before source,
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  SPEAKER_00: here and now, always.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are loved.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are free.
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  SPEAKER_00: So enjoy life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing to do but be you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be you and emanate unconditional,
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  SPEAKER_00: openness, peace,
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  SPEAKER_00: spacious love unto all beings and all worlds,
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  SPEAKER_00: effortlessly, effortlessly transparent, effortlessly emanate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Effortlessly radiant.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, heart of being, heart of being here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love to all God's children, all the children of Divinity, all the waves of the ocean.
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  SPEAKER_00: May you
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  SPEAKER_00: see your true freedom here and now.
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  SPEAKER_00: May you discover how fully you are embraced, nurtured, welcomed, and loved by great grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aho.
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  SPEAKER_00: Namaste.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the day the Lord has made.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us rejoice and be glad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day Thanksgiving,
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  SPEAKER_00: ending all the wars within and without,
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  SPEAKER_00: setting the kids free,
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  SPEAKER_00: setting all beings free,
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  SPEAKER_00: being the mighty sequoias rooted deep to the earth,
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  SPEAKER_00: branches to the heavens,
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  SPEAKER_00: centered in the heart for the highest good, all beings in all worlds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aho.
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  SPEAKER_00: Namaste.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mass has ended.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mass of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Always beginning anew in each moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enjoy is a type of worship.
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate life, my friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace, wholeness be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you.