We are on the second week of a four-part series and it's fine if you weren't here last week

and it's available.

We can download or podcast them on what are called the divine abodes and abode is the home

and really it's when we are truly at home in our fullness and our wholeness.

What are the expressions of that?

And in the Buddhist tradition, the expressions of being fully at home, fully here are loving

kindness that we naturally express the equality of loving kindness and the second of the divine

abodes is compassion which we'll explore tonight.

The third is joy and the fourth is equanimity which is the wisdom, the understanding that

really allows each of the other expressions of love and joy to be mature.

So each of these expressions of heart, mind arise from a wise understanding of reality

which sees past the trans a separation.

It's totally natural, it's given, we're programmed to have that trans occur in these body

minds and we have the capacity to wake up out of it and when we do, in the moments we're

not caught inside, the sense of I'm here and everyone else is there and we're separate,

there is a natural sense of tenderness that sometimes feels like loving kindness or

love and sometimes like compassion, sometimes like joy.

When it's loving kindness, it's because in that sense of connectedness or oneness we're

just seeing the goodness, we're seeing the beauty, the deerness, the preciousness of

life and then the heart opens with that feeling.

When it's compassionate because we're seeing the suffering, we're seeing the pain of

keeping ourselves separate and there's a tenderness that comes when we see it and it's

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