In our Dharma talks these last evenings we end in a lot of the instructions and interviews

a lot of the focus has been how to work with suffering and we've been appropriately paying attention

to the very realness of what's difficult and fear, grief, shame, anger.

So it's interesting to begin to look more closely at the moments where there's well-being

and to sense, okay, since you've been here, the moments perhaps when you were outside

and stopped and there was a sense of sky or a smell of grass or look a color, a glint

of the turning autumn leaves, there are countless such moments like an encounter, a moment of

stillness in here, our moments of well-being at home when we're gardening, are playing

with our dogs or playing with a child, whatever it is, what's the common denominator

of what makes those moments a sense, what happens when there's contentment, what's going

on, when there's a sense of peace or our love, what is the common denominator whenever

that's there, whenever we actually touch some real happiness, just yeah, a sense of connection.

Yeah, we're in the present piece of mind, no worries, there's no wrong answer by the

way, so yeah, yeah, present, not wanting anything else, gratitude, gratitude's there.

Let me say something, beauty, awareness.

So these are all, I think of them, they're all part of the, all weaves in the same experience

that we're really here for the moment, right?

You have to be really here for the moment, there's presence, and I'd like to name something

else which is embedded, which is there's not a fixation on self, if you notice that in

any of those moments, there's not a preoccupation with self, if you're thinking I'm a great

self, I'm a bad self, there's just not so much, it's like the fuller of the presence,

the less there's any, what we call selfing, reference here to me, me, me, me, okay, there's

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