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Namaste and blessings.

I love starting with Namaste.

That sense that we're just honoring or remembering that sacredness that lives in all of us.

I often imagine, because Namaste is done in some countries in the East and it can be very mechanical.

It's not like everybody in the East is going into some deep space of sacred awareness and presence,

but it's there.

I sometimes imagine what it would be like in contemporary society if we really did have an ongoing gesture with heart

in the ways that we encounter each other, whether it's this, so many people are beginning to, you know,

or this, it creates such a beautiful feeling.

And as many of you know, in much of contemporary society, actually, it's the handshake that's saying,

look, no gun here, you're safe with me.

And as we really reflect, that too is really important.

That gesture, if we really could live to it, if we could really let others know you're safe with me.

That is the precursor to Namaste.

If you think of it in an evolutionary way, if you can let people feel safe, then they can relax and open to really their true spirit

and see in each other that spirit.

So in Buddhism, forgiveness, or letting go of animosity blame, is described as the forerunner of Mehta,

that we have to shed that layering around our hearts of anger and blame to really love freely.

And it's intrinsic on the bodhisattva path, the path of an awakening being,

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