Tonight I wanted to talk a little something I've been reflecting about and it's really

on a very basic element to all meditation practices.

It's one of the most basic trainings that we get and it's really about how we move from

the stories that so possess our attention to this now quality, this here quality because

we all get carried away.

So this is about spiritual health care.

I know many of you were probably torn whether to listen tonight about other health care.

It's all into relates but yeah, spiritual health care really had to kind of spare ourselves

some of the excessive stories that we get caught in.

Like to start with a poem that I like a lot.

So just if you will, take a moment to just to close your eyes and feel your body and re-enter

if you've left that sense of the life that's here, take a few breaths and just listen.

The spirit likes to dress up like this, ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders and all the rest.

It could float, of course, but would rather plumb rough matter, area and shapeless thing

it needs the metaphor of the body, lime and appetite, the oceanic fluids.

It needs the body's world, instinct and imagination and the dark hug of time, sweetness and tangibility

to be understood, to be more than pure light that burns where no one is.

So it enters us in the morning, shines from root comfort like a stitch of lightning and

lights up the deep and wondrous parts of the body like a star.

The spirit likes to dress up like this, ten fingers, ten toes.

When we're off in our thoughts and our stories, we miss out.

We miss out on that, on this kind of mystery, the spirit, the awareness that's living

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