So a good evening.

Some of you who are new might not know when we're doing this and saying namaste and all

this what we're meaning by it.

So I thought maybe I just start by saying that the word namaste in contrast to in the

West where we kind of greet each other and say, hey, how are you doing?

Hi, how are you?

Namaste means I see the divine in you.

I see the sacred in you.

It's a little different feeling tone for cultures, you know, namaste.

And so when we bow, it's just that deep acknowledging of who is here.

You know, we go around and we tend to feel ourselves as an ego self and we're interacting

with ego selves and it takes a little pausing and deepening to really sense that.

But this kind of sweet living ritual of namaste is helps us to tune in more.

Now we've been here 24 hours together and I always feel like the first 24 is more

than 24 and it's quite a ride and it's particularly interesting because for most of us, it's a

dramatic shift in life circumstance.

We've been stripped of all our normal roles of person at work or parent or dog walker.

You know, it's like, I don't have a dog to walk.

What am I going to do?

We get all our normal escape routes are kind of, most of them, not all of them, are taken

away.

So, you know, we don't have email or for most of us we don't and we can't keep busy in

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