Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Brock. Namas day friends. You know I always start with Namaste day. Many are aware that the meaning is I

bow to the sacred that lives through all of us.

And I love beginning this way because it connects me.

It helps me feel that shared field of awareness of love that we all belong to and

Namaste day can be done really mechanically.

But when we're present for it, like I find for myself

when I'm embodying it, and I really invite you

to experiment with this.

There's a sense of I-Thou, a kind of a real honoring,

a reverential sense, a sense of intimacy of connecting with essence really. A friend of mine who has been

exploring, you know, just deepening that sense of Namaste, practices it on the

subways in New York City.

And he says he'll have somebody, he'll just kind of settle his attention on someone and he doesn't go up to them and that might be a little alarming to them.

But inwardly he does it. He's bowing in some way sensing into and acknowledging the goodness, the light and that other being he says, when he does it, the other person

becomes this kind of living mystery,

I love the way you put it.

And he can feel the shared spirit.

There's a magic to it. So So I don't know, can you imagine, you know, not necessarily

using the word or the gesture, but in some way when you encounter someone, you know, a sibling or a friend or your

parent or child, colleague, you know like this guy, a stranger on the subway, if your attention was like that,

where you were in some way sensing and honoring the spirit in them.

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