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Welcome to another solar threshold digin' knots. It is my true pleasure to be with you through another turn of this temporal odometer. It is a pleasure to pass through the portal of the new year with you. And I totally understand why ancient cultures held this time to be sacred.

And I really think we still should for myriad reasons that I like largely don't think I should get into right now. I don't think that will serve this particular episode. But I do want to say, yeah, it's the new year.

But why wait for any time of year to make a change when portals are everywhere all the time everywhere we look there is a gate to a deeper reality.

Think about it speaking can become a mantra running can become a prayer sitting in silence can lead to reflective bliss.

Eat like a hard laugh does it to that's one of my favorite ways so that gate to mystery is everywhere if we have eyes for it you can literally put one foot in front of the other rhythmically with the right attention and find yourself in an altered state you can sit there and hold your body in a position in a yoga class make repetitive mouth noises literally anything can take you there.

Like capital T there or maybe I should say bring you here because I think it's where we always are we just forget it like this is why Zen traditions have mundane tasks like sweeping or doing the dishes or whatever not just because they need to be done.

But this is why they're part of a darmic practice because there's literally no difference between chores and meditation if the mind is primed for it you can enter that flow that food you as the Japanese call it which is sort of a momentary flow state that dampens down the self and turns up the all it is a it's really beautiful term by the way it's comprised of two different characters the character for wind and flowing.

And actually Alan Watts has some great rifts on this but the basic idea is that food you must be felt it's very real but it's totally intangible it's a sort of wordless transitory state that can only be experienced in the moment.

And what is that moment it's the moment where the celestial harmony hits you don't even care who you are you sync up with the all and in that window you touch something beyond yourself and I think whatever the method is accessing that moment just has tremendous sustaining and and really humbling force it's so important.

Anyway, this podcast really pleasantly surprised me because I knew I was going to be talking to a tremendous filmmaker but Sanjay is way more than that I mean he is really sort of I think an unwitting initiate of the techno dharma that I'm always babbling about around here because within a minute he was speaking my language we were wrapping about mythology the heroes journey how endurance running as a spiritual endeavor.

And we got into so so much more he's got a film out now called thirty one hundred run and become and why thirty one hundred it chronicles one of the world's best endurance runners running a I fucking kid you not thirty one hundred mile foot race.

Yes sounds impossible but people really do it they run over the course of forty or fifty days two to three marathons a day every day truly truly mind boggling stuff but I really enjoyed the film for more on that thirty one hundred film dot com you can also watch it on iTunes Amazon prime and Google play highly encourage you to check that one out.

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it is that marvellously simple and with that let us pierce the membrane of this mind meld with the wise wonderful talented Sanjay Roal how did you how did you first hear about this race and what pulled you into wanting to explore this so deeply

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