Two weeks ago, when I was here, I wasn't here last week, as many of you know, the talk

was really on the possibility of true happiness, that on this path there's a potential for

a freedom and a happiness, and the deepest kind of happiness, the polyward is Suka, and

it's an unconditioned happiness, and what that means is that it's not dependent on things

going our way. It's a happiness that's not dependent on certain sense pleasures, or

relationships going a certain way, or us behaving the way we think we should. It's a happiness

that arises out of a very profound quality of presence. Just that, that there's complete

presence, a kind of noticing and allowing just what's here. Now, so what does that mean

to say there's a happiness there? And one way to consider it is that the happiness comes

from being at home in the truth of what we are. That when we're present, we come home

into reality, into awareness, into love, into hearingness. And when we're at home, we're

happy. Now, there's many times that we get happy on more superficial levels, and it's

not because we're deeply at home with our true nature, it's because, as I mentioned before,

there's certain good feelings about things, and it's temporary, and it's fleeting, and

it's fine. Unless we're clutching on a lot, it's fine. But this deep happiness is truly

a homecoming. It's one more inhabiting, loving presence. And as it's been described, this

essence happiness is in a neat expression of who we are when our minds are not caught

up, in greed, hatred, or delusion. In other words, when we're not reacting, when we're

not reacting, there is this incredible peace and happiness that's here. There's a wonderful

cartoon some they showed me a couple of years ago. I came up here and I was about to give

a talk, and we just handed it to me, and it had these two robots, and one's dancing around

completely joyously, flinging her arms. She was a she, and she's saying, I'm free, free,

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