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The last talk that I gave was on embodied presence and awakening in our body,

awakening our senses to full aliveness.

And so tonight is the second of a series that explores this.

I'd like to start with a mid-eastern story that I heard some time ago about a man

who was falsely accused of as an accriminal and is put in jail.

And a friend came to visit and gave him a prayer rug.

And he was really disappointed because he wanted a hacksaw or some tools to help him get

out.

But you know, he realized, okay, this is what I got, I might as well use it.

So every day he'd kneel down and bow and pray.

And he started to get more familiar with the pattern that was woven into the road.

And one day it struck him that the image in the rug was really the diagram of the lock

that he could unlock to step into freedom.

So the pathway that frees us, the portal to freedom, is always right here.

It's what we're standing on.

It's this aliveness in our body that's right here.

It's just what's going on.

And probably the biggest solution in the world is that it's something down the road that

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