Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please. Thank you for being here. So this is the third week in a three-week series based on the story of Natchikata, which

really explores the three inner strengths that can really serve us on the path. And the last

of these strengths is spiritual realization insight into the nature of reality.

So I thought as a warm-up to that, I would share a poem that I love from my friend and poet, Dana Falls.

Settle in the here and now, reach down into the center where the world is not spinning,

and drink in this holy peace.

Feel relief flood into every cell.

Nothing to do. Nothing to be but what you are already, nothing to receive but what flows

effortlessly from the mystery into form. Nothing to run from or run toward. Just this breath,

awareness knowing itself as embodiment. Just this breath, awareness knowing itself as embodiment.

Just this breath, awareness waking up to truth.

Okay my friends, wishing you all blessings.

There's a story in which there's a shipwreck and three men end up being stranded on a desert

island and they managed to keep themselves alive for a couple of weeks but it's getting really

tough.

But their good fortune was they find one of those lamps that has a genie that comes out

and says, well, each one of you gets a wish. So the first one says, I want to see my wife and children,

I want to be back home. Vush, he vanishes. Second one says, oh, me too, my dog, my work, send me back.

Vush, he vanishes. And the third one goes, I'm lonely. I want my friends back.

We are on the third of a three-part series that really has to do with three wishes, but they're all

granted to one person. The theme is coming from the Upanishads, an ancient teaching tale that I've

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