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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.

Namaste and welcome my friends.

These last few weeks we've been doing a course called the Brahmavaharas, 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, many of these

classic teaching stories do, and in this one a novice has just joined the monastery and

he's assigned to help the other monks who are copying the canons 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, you know, there could be a mistake,

and then they just keep going with a mistake.

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

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