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So here we are.

This is the second week and a five-week introduction to mindfulness,

meeting our life with a present heart. And I shared last week, I'm offering this kind of

back to basics in mindfulness training, because so many, myself included are sensing that

the global crises of these times, they're calling on us to find an

inner refuge of calm, of clarity, of open-heartedness. You might remember that well-known

teaching from Tikna Han about the crowded refugee boats. If even one person on the boat stayed calm,

it was enough. It showed the way for everyone to survive. And then he says, please, may

you be that person. So we need inner calm and steadiness so we can respond to this world with our full courage

and intelligence.

And here's the thing.

The more stress there is, the more overwhelmed, the more fear, anger, heartbreak, the more

we need the pathway of mindfulness for homecoming.

I find it helpful to imagine this, to imagine we emerge into these forms and develop the space suit

to help us navigate and survive difficult environments. And the space suit is our ego and our computing, predicting brain, and our personality,

and our defenses.

And we need it.

And the more stress, the more spacesuit activation.

You can sense the mental computer whirring along and just all the activities of defending and protecting and figuring.

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