Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely, and your support really makes a woman coming back from a meditation retreat and she's at the

airport. She buys herself a package of cookies. All the tables are occupied so she sits with

a stranger and she's reading her newspaper and she reaches for one of her cookies. And to her great surprise and dismay, he then reaches and helps

himself to one. And she, it's this terrible, audacious behavior, but she doesn't say anything.

And, you know, she keeps reading. She takes another cookie, and he then takes another cookie.

And finally, they're down to their last cookie, and he splits it.

And he gives her half, and he eats half, and then he leaves.

And when it's her time to leave, she goes to, you know, she hears the loudspeaker calling her to her gate.

So she goes to the gate and then when she reaches into her purse to pull out her iPhone or ticket, there's her pack of cookies.

And she realized she had been eating his.

One of my favorite ways of understanding the spiritual path is really being lost in a trans,

you know, believing our thoughts, being caught in a sense of separation, being reactive,

and then remembering, coming back to some presence to a larger reality beyond our limiting thoughts and

opening our hearts. And if we are suffering and we investigate, we'll find that we've been caught

in believing something that's not true, something that's limiting us, that's contracting us. And the word

mindfulness comes from the Sanskrit word Satipatana, and it means remembering to remember.

It's the skillful art of coming back from trans repeatedly.

So I'd like to share a talk with you that I offered two years ago,

and it's on what I think of as the three key domains of remembering,

three key domains of awakening. And I just reviewed this talk a few days ago,

and it just feels ever more true. So I wanted to share it. My hope is that it'll help you if

someone is eating your cookies or if you realize you've been eating theirs, it will help, I think, as it does for me,

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