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Welcome to episode 3,032 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I

welcome you to day four of our series we are midweek as you explore the

theme integrity living your truth and this is the week where many people drop off from their New Year's

resolutions but not you. You are living with integrity, you are tuning into your true inner nature and this is keeping you focused.

You also have several challenges and in particular your challenge for this week is a very ancient challenge and this can help you immensely.

Your challenge this week is to chop wood, carry water.

Now as your insight, for today I always share insight before your guided and

a meditation I want to share the significance of the meaning of chopwood carry water.

And then you'll be guided in a meditation with a moudra.

Now this moudra draws out your power. It is indeed a very powerful

moodra and I want you to know this moodra. It's easy to do. If you go to the Sippinome Meditation

app, you will find there's a slowdown guide with each series, so you'd go to today's or rather this week's series and

then you would look at the slowdown guide there and the journal there and you can go deeply into the week's theme.

So, Chopwood carry water represents, or it's considered to represent, a Zen coon. Now you might not know what that is, but there are many coons and they are

universal truths and they are very commonly studied for centuries and used amongst the Buddhist

monks there.

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