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These last few weeks we've been doing a course called the Brahma Vaharas,

which is the Divine Abodes, and it really goes through the basic heart spaces

that are expressions of our true nature, that we can awaken intentionally.

And to begin, this is the third in the series,

and you didn't have to listen to the first two, but they're available to.

To begin this one, a story that I love that takes place in a monastery

and many of these classic teaching stories do,

and in this one, Anavis has just joined the monastery, and he's assigned to help the other monks

who are copying the cannons and the laws of the church by hand.

But he notices that they're copying off of copies.

And he's worried about this because he thinks there could be a mistake,

and then they just keep going with the mistake.

So he goes to the ab and describes his concerns, and the ab and says,

well, we've been doing this for centuries, my son, but you make a good point.

So he goes down deep, deep, deep into the vaults and the cave

underneath the monastery where the original manuscript has been saved.

He's gone for hours, and the novice begins to get worried about him.

So he goes after him, and he sees the old avid crying uncontrollably

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