Namaste. Hello everyone. Welcome back. I hope you've had a good week or however long it's been. I don't count the days. I should count the days. Hello. Right. What have we got today? We have got the first part of a two-part interview with Michael Taft.

And honestly, like I listened to all of these back, obviously when we're doing like edits after the initial chat.

I personally probably got more from this chat than I've got from anything so far.

So good. He is Michael

Taft, the king of practical non-duality, a voice like authoritative velvet. You'll see what I mean.

He's great. So that's all good. And he insults me nicely, like totally warranted as you'll see by the by the title heading of

this episode so um part one this week part two next week i'll leave that to speak for itself i really hope

you enjoy it and get as much out of it as i did um In other news, what else has been happening this week?

Well, it's all about, for me, I have discovered lots of people have recommended him,

and I haven't got around to it until now, but Tick Nat Han, I think I'm saying that properly.

I checked online to see that we'll muck it up.

Jamie Cato talked a lot about Ticknat Han in the previous ep. And as a result of that chat,

I bought the books, his how to series. They are genuinely brilliant. God, like, I'm so effusive.

But so there's these series of books.

They're like little almost not Mr. Men books. They're small books. How to sleep, how to eat,

how to love. Um, and they're just great. You just, they just suck you in their little paragraphs and they're so concise and beautifully written.

I've thoroughly recommend them. The last one I haven't got to yet is how to fight,

which I'm very much looking forward to, because I'm a terrible fighter and hopefully it'll

mean I'll win more fights in pubs. I don't think it's that.

But I'm looking forward to reading it.

Also, I discovered plum village.

Again, lots of people who recommended Plum Village.

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