Okay, so opening story for you.

One day there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet

in a sign that read, I am blind, please help.

A creative publicist was walking by and stopped to observe.

He saw that the blind man had only a few coins in his hat and he dropped in a few more

coins and without asking for permission took the sign and rewrote it.

Returned the sign to the blind man and left.

That afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was full

of bills and coins.

The blind man recognizes footsteps and asked if it was he who had rewritten the sign and

wanted to know what he had written on it.

The response, nothing that was not true, I just wrote the message a little differently.

So he smiled and went on his way.

The new sign read, today is spring and I cannot see it.

So I think you intuitively understand in a way that the real suffering is that what

we long for is here and yet in some way we can't connect with it or see it or trust it

or be with it and the Buddha basically described this suffering as ignorance that in some

way our conditioning is to ignore or not see the truth of what is right here.

That's our conditioning and so while we might not be literally blind it's somewhat described

as a transfer dream that we live in a transfer dream and we just see a little bit of spring

or we just see a little bit of the truth of who we are in a way the essence of this whole

spiritual path is to wake up out of the trance and truly realize who we are.

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