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These weeks, I'm taking off some time to be with family, including two young granddaughters,

so I'm really excited about that, lots of fun, real blessings and that.

And so during this time I've chosen a three-week series that I like a lot.

It's from the archives. And it's called three blessings in spiritual life.

And it explores the basic facets of our awareness, of our awakening awareness that really help us

find freedom and happiness in life. And so the first of these three is on cultivating a forgiving heart.

And I base these talks on a really wonderful teaching story that always uplifts me and

I hope it does the same for you.

Okay, enjoy.

Namaste and welcome.

In this class and then two classes to follow we're going to be exploring what you might

consider as the intrinsic capacities we have that really allow for spiritual awakening and also for the healing of our earth.

And I have organized these three talks around one of my favorite tales from the Upanishads

and I periodically revisit it and I find that each time I do I get new layers of appreciation for it.

So we'll be exploring an ancient teaching story from India,

and I'll read you a bit of the story, and then we'll look at these three capacities together.

The lead character is Natchikata, and Natchikata is the son of a rich merchant who also happens to be quite miserly.

And his father was making donations to receive a gift from the gods.

And the son noticed that the cows he was donating were the lame ones.

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