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I often use the word trance in talking about this whole path of waking up in recognition

that we spend huge swaths of time in a kind of virtual reality where we're thinking

time traveling, you know, thinking about the future in the past and not actually awake

right here in our senses.

And yet, pretty much everything we most value, when you think about it, feeling love, we

have to be in our bodies, wisdom, we have to be here to directly contact reality, creativity,

the things we most value require being awake in our senses.

And so what I'd like to explore in this class and in the following one really is this,

the pathway to full-embodied mental.

It's what in Buddhism is described as the first foundation of mindfulness that everything

else arises out of our capacity to really be at home and awake in this living body.

And so what we need to love life, celebrate life, really live it fully.

There's a story that an art professor told about a conversation with her daughter, her daughter

was seven and she asked this woman, you know, one day what she did at work and the art

professor told her well because she worked at a college.

She said, well, I teach students how to draw.

And the daughter looked really bewildered and she said, you mean they forgot?

And I often think about how our bodies know how to draw and to sing and to dance and they

know how to be sexual and how to give birth and they know how to heal and they know how

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