The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

So welcome to the first class in this new year.

I thought I'd start by a post-holiday story that one woman who drives a bus told that

she stopped to pick up someone, a young preschooler and older woman was standing with them.

So when he got on the bus, she asked who that was and he said, oh that's my grandma and

she goes, oh where does your grandmother live?

And he said, oh she lives at the airport.

Whenever we wander we just go there and get her.

So here we are post-holiday.

For all that that means to us.

For some it's really, really difficult and stressful.

Others it's joyful and fun.

But we have our experiences and for a number of us from the DC area, the day after Christmas

began a retreat, our New Year's retreat, which is six days.

And at the end of the retreat one man came up to talk to me and he said, you know I had

a real breakthrough and you know through listening to talks and practicing and he said, my

breakthrough was I realized that I'm not learning anything new.

I'm just remembering.

I'm in a process of remembering that the spiritual truths aren't out there, something

that we sign on for or learn.

There's nothing we're joining.

It's actually engaging in a process that is reminding us of something deep and intrinsic

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