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Now, I must stay and welcome.

As many are aware, one of the great gifts of meditation is to wake us up past the thinking

and conceptual mind.

So we really have access to the universe in a very living, vivid, immediate way.

And I had a birthday last week and I got a birthday card and it said, not thinking of

you.

Which I thought was really cute.

It reminded me of something I've had in my files for a long time.

I thought I'd share and it's a picture of two monks and Abbot and the novice and the

novice is like this.

And the Abbot is saying to the novice, I've never met anyone so thoughtless in my life.

Keep up the good work.

And the novice, of course, is saying, thank you, masters.

Thank you, Master.

So a key element on the path is that we start becoming more and more aware of what we might

call the trance of thinking.

We can look back at the last hour and rise, boy, I was, you know, often a dream, you know,

riding many trains into the future and the past.

So we start noticing that more and more.

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