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

I'm your host Kory Muscarra and in this episode we are going to talk about why this moment is it.

More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so I'd like to read a passage for you by the great teacher, Lautzu, author of the Taoutiching.

And this is titled, This Is It.

Always, we hope, someone else has the answer.

Some other place will be better.

Some other time it will all turn out.

This is it. No one else has the answer. No other place will be better and it has already turned out.

At the center of your being, you have the answer.

You know who you are and you know what you want.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to appear from a window. Rather, abide at the center of your being for the more you leave it the less you learn.

Okay, so as with all of the passages and poems I share here, notice how this one lands.

I know for me, this lands in different ways.

So part of it that resonates deeply as a truth and pointing to something very important,

reconnecting me to my practice,

the felt sense of my practice.

And there are other parts of it that well make me want to argue with the passage,

especially the line or the second passage that goes, second paragraph, this is it, no one else has the answer, no other place will be better,

no other place will be better.

That's an interesting one. it can sometimes be hard to hear

it could be actually triggering make us push back it's like actually no where I'm

at right now is not good it it's painful, or I'm struggling, my community is struggling, our world

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