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And I'm a Stay and welcome.

So this is a talk geared for the winter solstice.

And for many practitioners in different spiritual paths

this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere,

sometimes felt as particularly conducive for really deep,

kind of quieting and realization with a lot

of the dark, dark days and so on.

And it's interesting to me that there's really two kinds

of darkness.

And one is the darkness of the fertile void,

that the whole new life comes out of this fertile void.

And it's often described as this darkness

as the mother of universe, a kind of black luminosity

out of which the whole creation comes forward.

And then of course, the second kind of darkness

is the shadow of that, which is the darkness of unconsciousness

and ignorance and the not seeing of truth,

the not seeing of really who we are and who others are.

And in that not seeing, there's the potential

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