Welcome everyone. I'm happy to be here with you reflecting on these sutas that are

particularly alive for me.

I've been teaching about them,

and especially in the last few years

and they are very resonant suitus for me.

I'm curious, did when you received the Zoom link, did you receive

PDF copies of the suitors that will be working with.

Okay, so a few of you are nodding.

Okay, great.

Some of you had expressed an interest

in getting them in advance.

I was not expecting you to read them in advance,

but some of you had expressed that

interest so the the direction or the movement in this exploration that will be doing with these three suitors is to explore

a teaching from the Buddha where he basically he describes what it's like to be in in his mind.

It's one of the few descriptions of the Buddha,

of the Buddha offering a description of his own experience

or how the or how a enlightened being experiences the world or actually more accurately doesn't experience because the framing of that Suta is largely in the negative.

So that's the direction we're headed to to explore that to that teaching that's a

suita called the Kalakaramas suita and I first was introduced to this Suta through a lovely little book called The Magic of the Mind by Nyananda.

And it's a lovely little reviewing of that Suta and a whole bunch of commentary by his own thinking about it.

And it was just so interesting and inspiring to me, and I've revisited it over and over again.

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