Let me ask you a question. I'll probably ask you a few tonight and one of them is how many

of you perceive that your awareness in some ways waking up over time just have

sensed that over years whatever okay yeah what for you are the signs of that

like what lets you know that awareness is waking up let me just here we'll

just hear in the room just like a word like anybody just raise your hand just

give a word yeah what less reactive what else yeah space yeah softer patient

equanimity clarity purity curious curious curious curious yeah yeah anything

else slower heartbeat more forgiving open more feelings yeah so more in

contact with feelings flow of that's a good word yeah flow gratitude so that's

fun we could just keep doing that I like that that's the transmission I feel like

it's very valuable to take time and pause and recognize this happening it's

it's in described in one scriptures this miracle of awakening just to

trust it nourishes it to recognize it and trust it nourishes it now another

question when you have moments where you're sensing inner freedom what has

changed about your sense of yourself of who or what you are just consider that

what's different what do you notice again it could just be a couple of few words

yeah compassion that your sense of yourself is more compassionate you're more

compassionate what's your if you take it down to the level of like what's your

actual sense of who you are yeah less of a sense of who I am how many of you

notice that there's just less yeah the Buddha's basic teaching is that we

suffer because we don't realize who we are that in the moments that were

reactive we are subscribing to a story of some some story of a small and

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