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Namaste. Today's talk is the second of a two-part series that I chose from the archives

on embodied presence. And I selected it because it seems so important in these times that

we're in where there's so much violence and so much uncertainty that we deepen the

pathway home that we know how to come home into our bodies and into our hearts so we

can be balanced and clear and kind as we move through these challenging times.

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Welcome and Namaste friends. It's really great to be with you. The title of this talk

is Being Embodied and this is part two, two-part talk. I started the first last week.

And I thought I'd maybe start by sharing that in recent days I've become really kind

of immersed in Hiku. And this morning I was going for my river walk and I was composing

and really inside it. And I walked right into a massive spider web. I mean I got totally

slimed by it. I was remembering one comedian describing if you were like 200 feet away

watching somebody it's like you know so that was me. And of course I was actually writing

a Hiku in my mind about spider web. So just such a reminder it really makes a difference

to stay awake in our bodies for ourselves, for spiders, for other creatures. And the

last week when I spoke I really talked about we are a disembodied culture. You know it's

and by disembodied I mean we habitually seek safety and control by living in our thoughts.

We're disconnected from the wilderness, the wildness of these living bodies and we inhabit

a virtual world for huge swastles of the time. And if you just review any particular day

or the last few hours it's pretty easy to see how much we're gone. And there's huge suffering

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