I'd like to begin tonight's talk with a story I've always loved about the magician

Kudini and as it goes he would travel around Europe and tons of different

stunts but one of his favorite was being strapped into a straight jacket and

then he'd be put into a little cell and he'd get out of his straight jacket and

unlock the lock and you know delight anybody that was watching so he did this you

know went did his rounds in Europe and he got to Ireland and then he had a

little trouble because they put him in a straight jacket and then the cell

he was fine getting out of the straight jacket but for whatever it took he

could not unlock the lock he could not get out of the cell that he was put in

and the townspeople and the newspapers were pretty disappointed they all kind of

left so finally he asked the jailor to unlock him and asked him you know what

kind of newfangled sophisticated lock he had used and the response was it's

actually a quite ordinary lock the thing is I didn't lock it so his efforts were

locking him in everything he was doing was keeping him locked in so I think you

get the message on this one but I'll just say a bit which is that many many

moments we have the conditioning to assume a problem or assume trouble or

assume that we're trying to figure something out or get to something else are

in some way get out of a situation and it's an underlying that said basic

something's wrong got to do something our efforts to feel better our efforts to

in some way figure things out and make things different and get

somewhere actually or what create our prison or what keep us trapped in a

sense of separateness and not okayness so the teaching is that the doors are

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