Tonight I'd like to begin with a very brief inter-reflection, so if you, after you've been

sitting meditating, just again, let your attention go inward. Notice how this is a pause that actually

invites you to be alert and attentive. And in these few moments, imagine that you are an enlightened

being of Buddha, Jesus, anyone who represents an enlightened being, maybe an awakened person

like the Dalai Lama, but imagine that's you, and just imagine the awareness that's here

in that enlightened beingness. So sensing the awareness of enlightened being, that openness,

awake, free, how that awareness experiences the world that's here, around you, inside.

Take some moments from this space of awareness to sense what it's like to experience your body.

From the awareness of enlightened being, what is it like to experience this bodily being?

Just check that out.

You are the Buddha experiencing the body.

Okay, enough right now. Come on back.

So if we were in one of the workshops, I sometimes do, I'd be asking, well, so what happened?

What was that like? And what I find, the first thing is that people are often surprised

that it's possible to sense that you're a Buddha and enlightened being, at least for a little bit,

you know, obviously as soon as we get in our car driving somewhere, you know, we can

re-contract and so on, but it's possible to sense awareness. And what most amiss surprising

is the experience of the body from the perspective of awareness, that rather than this kind of

solid object or something that were in some way pushing away or wanting different,

there is an enormous sense of aliveness. How many of you noticed aliveness as you kind of

rested in awareness, son? I see, just raise your hands a little higher so I can get a sense of it.

So the reverse is true also. When you meditate and bring mindfulness to your body,

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