Maybe to begin, there's a cartoon strip called the Robotics Department.

Some of you might follow and in one of the cartoons there's a female robot who's jumping

up and down ecstatically and she's going, I'm free, I'm free, free at last, I've overridden

my manual button, you know, I found my manual override button and I love that one because

just imagine if you could find your manual override button for, you know, when you get caught

in certain obsessive thoughts or when you're about to binge or, you know, or when you're

about to act in any way that you'll later regret, you know.

So I thought I would explore tonight, one of the domains where having that manual override

button, which is really mindfulness, I'm assuming you know, it feels really, really critical

in terms of our healing and our freedom and that is to begin to wake up out of our habits

of busyness, of always busily racing into the future.

So that's going to be our theme.

I've mentioned here before that the syllable, the tiny syllable that has the word busy correlates

to very commonly is heart killing and there is something about our speed and our busyness

and our toppling into the future, which really separates us from what we cherish and we

know that as a culture and we can feel it in our culture.

You can tell that, right?

I mean, this is, we're together on this, yeah.

So and it's very personally alive for me, you know, I have all these different layers

of demands and I find that when I get into the trance of my life's about getting things

done, then I'm missing out on what I know is a very precious, fleeting life.

And I also know that everything I do, and I think this is true for all of us, if we create

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