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Namaste, welcome friends. Last week I gave a talk on the homecoming to our true nature.

How do we wake up from that habit of taking ourselves to be a separate and limited and often

a deficient self?

And the teaching is not to get rid of the self, but really to become aware of how that

identification shapes all of our experience and keeps us from really living fully from

who we can be.

And then we explored the pathways to a larger sense of being.

And I know a lot of questions can come up from this kind of talk and I wanted to continue

on this theme.

So I chose a talk from the archives that hopefully will guide you really in deepening your understanding,

deepening your sense of the freedom that's possible on this path.

So I hope you enjoy.

There's a poet, an Indian poet from the 1600s name is Tukkaram.

I'd like to read you a brief poem translated by Daniel Ladinsky that he wrote.

I was meditating with my cat the other day and all of a sudden she shouted, what happened?

I knew exactly what she meant, but encouraged her to say more, feeling that if she got it

all out on the table she would sleep better that night.

So I responded, tell me more, dear, and she's soulfully meowed.

Well, I was mingled with the sky, I was calm, it's whizzing here and there, I was suns

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