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This class sharing one of the very first stories I ever heard when I started meditation classes

myself has a real classic setup of a guy's going for hike and all of a sudden he's being chased

by a tiger so he kind of jumps over the edge and of this fairly high ridge and grabs onto

a route and he's dangling from this route and below him are jagged rocks and above him is

this pacing, totally hungry tiger and so you know he's all he can think of is to call out for help

so he yells out hell, hell, and and and he hears a voice a booming voice and goes, God is that you?

Yes it's me it's God. Well what should I do? What should I do? And God says just let go.

And the guy goes, is anybody else there?

And I always loved it because this letting go teaching, you know how many of us have heard this

teaching that in spiritual life are really learning to let go let go let go and when we're really

stuck when we're caught in craving when we're really afraid it's the last thing we can do

it's like everything in us is hooked so most everyone I know has some habit whether it's a mental

habit of obsessing and worrying or you know a behavioral habit of over consuming or whatever that

is or emotional habit of you know getting real gripped by things or angry we all have habits

that in some way we know that if we could in some way get over them let them go we'd actually be

living more fully we'd we'd have more space for presence and we'd be more loving and we spend

a lot of time noticing how we're not able to control those habits and we're often adding on that

second hour of judging ourselves like feeling bad about ourselves for not being able to control

what we think we should be able to control so this is the predicament we're going to explore

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