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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 of 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 Nachikata and Nachikata 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 who were donating were the lame ones and so that his

father was really being sneaky.

And he kind of challenged him publicly and the father in his sense of shame basically

said, I give you to Lord Yama and Yama is a death so it's like basically said go to hell.

Which Nachikata took rather concretely because what he did was he went off into the dense

sparse searching for death and he sat and waited for death to appear when he found his spot

and he sat through pain and exhaustion and hunger and so on and in that presence he arrived

in what's called the domain of Lord Yama and he was greeted by death's three assistants

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