So one of the great inquiries in spiritual practice is to stop in any moment, just to pause

and just say, so what is in this moment between me and really feeling happy, feeling at home?

It's a powerful inquiry. It just shines a light right away on, are we here? You know, are there some

interference, some belief, some tightness in the body, something that's keeping us from being

really and happening, our presence and our aliveness? And what we discover is that when we're not at

home, there's a kind of narrowing of our lens of attention, and we've in some way fixated on the

feeling and belief that something's wrong. We've gotten caught and I call it a trans, but this

narrowing of attention. And often it's something's wrong with me. Sometimes it's the world,

sometimes it's another person, but there's something wrong. And the Buddha described really the

source of all our suffering. He used the word ignorance a lot, which is really ignoring the truth or

the big picture. When you are suffering, it's because your lens of attention has fixated in some way,

and you're forgetting something really precious and true, which is the vastness and the love and

the spirit that's here all the time. There's a forgetting going on. And so our training, and this really

is all the training and all the different spiritual additions, and some way come down to this, which is

reopening this lens. So we can see what's real. So we can see who we are and we can be with each

other and really see who's there. And I like the language of soul recognition that we have forgotten,

and we come back in sense again, a kind of soulfulness. And if that word trips off, some things that are

narrowing for you, then put it aside. But it's a recognition of some essence quality of truth, of

spirit, of aliveness, of goodness that we've not seen. So I'd like to, on this almost in summer,

this evening, share with you a story that is on this theme. And it's one of my favorite

from the King Arthur legends. And in this particular one, King Arthur is hunting in the woods,

and he somehow or rather gets separated from his companions. And he encounters and animates

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