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please go to be Tibetan that when the great iron bird is flying in the sky, the

Dahmer is going to come to the west. The great iron bird has been flying now for a while and it's clear that the

dama is coming to the west. There's a lot of flourishing of Dama activity, primarily in this country, but all over Europe and Canada now.

It's important to try and understand what the word Dama means so that we can get some clear perspective about this this

flourishing of activity now.

Dama is a Sanskrit word.

And its most general meaning is that of the law, or the way things are. The way things are happening, the Tao,

the process of things. All of that is the dama.

How things are happening.

There's also a more specific meaning of the of the word dama.

And it is each of the discrete psychic and physical elements which make up our being.

All of the different elements of matter in our body are called damas.

Each of the elements of minds, thoughts, visions, emotions, all the elements of our mind, our personality, each of them are called damas. So not only does dama mean each of these elements which

comprise our being, but also the laws governing them, the laws governing that process.

The task of all spiritual work is to explore the dama, to uncover, to penetrate into the nature of the

dama within us, that is to explore all of the different elements of mind and body, and also to discover

to explore how they are all working in process, the relationships of them.

Exploring, discovering, exploring discovering the dama within ourselves.

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