Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscara, and in today's episode, and in this episode I'm going to talk about meeting the moment with

beginner's mind and the responsibility of showing up. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. The Okay, so I'd like to start with a passage from Martin Buber.

He says, in spite of all similarities,

every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face that has never been before and will never come again.

It demands a view a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands

presence, responsibility. It demands you a you. I'm going to read that last couple, the last couple sentences again.

It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand.

It demands nothing of what is passed.

It demands presence, responsibility.

It demands you. demands presence, responsibility.

It demands you.

Yeah, that one line keeps standing out to me.

It demands a view of reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand.

Curious how that lands for you when you hear it.

A reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand.

What is all of this doing and preparation and expertise we're developing if future moments don't demand any of it? Well, I don't think we need to throw all of that out. We are equipping ourselves to meet future moments through our past or our current present moment experiences, and that is giving us new resources, tools, new ways of thinking, problem solving.

So we don't have to throw all of that out, but there's another reality here that's being pointed to,

which is that you truly have not seen this moment of your life.

Even though you may have listened to this podcast many times before, even though you may have heard my voice many times before,

even if I've said something similar to what I'm saying right now. You haven't seen this moment, and you haven't been you as you are right now and even

that commute that you take to work or the partner you wake up to or the tree in your backyard or in the park that you see every day, that's

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