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I'll begin with a story about a man who came to one of our retreats on the recommendation of his therapist

who told him he'd feel better. And after the retreat, he goes back to his therapist and

said, I was so intense. I touched into really raw fear and pervasive self-doubt and really

touch into the deepest grief. You know, you said I'd feel better

and therapist nodded sagely, yep, you'll feel your fear better and I thought you'd feel

yourself doubt better and your grief better.

And, you know, there's this misunderstanding about meditation that we're transcending the

body and the feelings

and our earthly experience.

And a more true understanding is that by meeting this earthly life with a full presence, we

connect with our full heart and spirit.

So this is what we're exploring in a two-part series

that I love from the archives, and this is part two. If you missed the first one, you can find it

on my website. Friends, you know, so many life moments we spend in that trance of thinking, we know it, and the most cherished

parts of life, you know, love and gratitude, wonder, true insight, it arises from being

right here in an embodied presence.

So my prayer is that we can all deepen our attention to this so that we really

can serve and savor this precious life. Thank you. This afternoon I was in my yard and kind of walking past these new daffodils and feeling that sense of what I was in my yard and kind of walking past these new daffodils and feeling

that sense of what happens when you know, getting your first blossoms in your yard in the

spring.

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