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

To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste and good evening.

When I was in my 20s for much of that decade I was living in an ashram or spiritual community and I've shared

that I was a bit of a type A type yogi.

You know, I was kind of pretty driven trying to reach enlightenment.

I had an idea it would take about seven years so I was trying real hard.

That was not a true idea that didn't match with reality.

But there was a story that I remember hearing early on that has stayed with me and I share

it now and then because it helps me and it's of this musk deer who got a whiff of this heavenly fragrance and felt this urge

to find the source of it and it became this compelling life journey that this musk deer was always on its way

trying to find the source of this incredible

fragrance and it went over the tallest rocky peaks and across wide-ranging rivers and through

dense jungle chasing after this sacred scent.

And finally at the end of its life it was exhausted and as it was dying, its horn

pierced its belly and the scent absolutely filled the air.

And so it is that what we are longing for is here.

It's already here.

It's really what we are.

And yet we get caught in this idea that it's around the bend or it's down the road or it's after the three-month retreat

where we've gone into the Himalayas or it's back 2,500 years ago with only special

beings at another era and in some ongoing way we feel like we have this problem we have

to figure out and solve before

...