The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

Namaste and welcome.

Well I'm really delighted to be with you and I want to thank you for joining in.

You are my community and we're all in our little places here.

Most of us anyway, somewhat sequestered.

So it is beautiful to connect and we're all on those of us that are giving talks online.

We're learning, we're trying to learn how best to do it.

One of the training invitations is to maintain warm, steady eye contact with a little red ball

the camera.

So what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to do that and I'll be my eyes will go over

the place because I have some different readings on my computer and so on.

I'm sharing this all with you because I just want to be real and I'm imagining you.

Really we're all over the globe.

I know we're connected all over the globe and all going through so much and I've heard

from so many during these days of global pandemic, this notion that our world will never be

the same and that it's unlike anything we've experienced in our lifetime and for many,

it's forcing us to deepen our practice, deepen our path, deepen our understanding of how

we are relating to this really out of control existence.

So in that spirit, I thought I'd share a little bit of an opening story.

The greatly beloved Rabbi Shakta was on his deathbed with his people surrounding him.

They're awaiting his final words of wisdom and in a faltering voice, he uttered life

is like a fountain.

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