Hello. Hi, it's Josh and welcome. Thanks for stopping by. Another Tuesday night class.

Always good to connect in a world gone awry. A planet spinning off its access where the nonsensical and the senseless is the rule of the day.

And so we get to spend a little time just focusing our attention on talking about cool stuff,

meditating, connecting.

So hopefully this will be an anecdote for whatever stresses and challenges

your feeling.

And yeah, if you have any questions, anything you'd like to interact between classes,

you can always write DPX, NYC at gmail.com.

That's a great way to connect.

And make any requests, ask any questions, seek resources. The counseling and the

teaching is entirely supported only by donation. So if you would like to support my work,

the three ways to do so are Dharma punks with an ex-NYC and Venmo.

And then on the website there are PayPal and Patreon links.

And anything you give, no matter how small, is really helpful.

So, despite what it seems, as the Buddha noted, and as we have increasingly learned from contemporary

cognitive science, despite what it seems, we don't actually build our experience of the world

from what's actually arriving through our ears and eyes and nose and tongue and skin. Instead, our brain largely relies on replaying states from

previous experiences. So you don't just walk into a room in your house and wait for all the light to hit your retina,

all the sounds to reconstruct a sense of your living room or your bathroom.

You actually build it largely through what's called models,

reinstatements in the brain.

Below our awareness, we're creating sights and sounds to fill in

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