Sometimes when I come in somebody just hands me something and I want to read you

what was handed to me today. This is a horoscope. This is if you happen to be a

Scorpio. Here you go. True inner peace elude you this week when you eat seven guacamole tacos

with extra hot sauce. So it fits the topic of the evening, which is how to make the best guacamole

on avocados or in season. There is a phrase that I find really useful and it's called the big squeeze

and I first heard it. Pema children coined it many years ago and the big squeeze is basically

our predicament that every day we sense how we're just reactive. We're caught in the conditioning

feel like a kind of small busy self on his or her way somewhere and stressed and we're kind of small

and we also deeply intuit this kind of mystery, love, consciousness that really is our source.

I mean we would not be here. If there wasn't something we sensed about what we are and about

what's living through each of these beings that we want to more awaken to.

So the big squeeze is the fact that as much as that's our intention to be awake and conscious

and come home to this truth, this conditioning is really strong and it grabs us and we're

imprisoned often in our reactions and our fears and in our anger and our blaming and our

judgments and so we become the self that's rather contracted.

Angela Celesius writes, God whose love and joy are present everywhere can't come to visit you

unless you aren't there. God whose love and joy are present everywhere can't come to visit you

unless you aren't there.

So we can substitute if God works for you that's fine or we could say awareness or spirit or

divinity but that which is sacred can't visit can't we can't experience that fullness unless

in some way we're not there and let's let's see what we mean by that.

And it's because this is very integral to the non dual wisdom traditions including Buddhism,

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