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It's a little story about the fruit of practice or fruit of the path and on a terrace of a monastery

that's high in the mountains and old Buddhist monks do next to a much younger monk.

They're just they're contemplating the void, contemplating the great emptiness of existence

and the old monk at one point gently declared, oh my son, one day all of this will be yours.

So we contemplate the blessings of the path and as we've been exploring together,

you know, there's the wisdom that recognizes this existence as empty, groundless, changing.

And there's the love that arises that really experiences in a very simultaneous way,

as you sense the emptiness of it, this quality of fullness, this quality really that all the waves

are rising belong to this awareness that's here and there's a deep tender sense of being part

of this field of loving and it's described as a kind of radical belonging, a radical interconnection

that really is a gift of the path where we're able to be intimate with all things because we belong to all things.

In the evolution of consciousness, this fruit of wisdom and love is described through the archetype

of the bodhisattva and many of you are familiar with the word bodhi means awakening,

satfas being, those awakened being and the awakened being is an archetype, archetype means

a kind of original patterning and it's really a spiritual DNA that's in every one of our consciousness.

We're all awakening bodhisattvas, this capacity to realize, to deeply realize the nature of reality

and that we are that reality and feel that sense of oneness and belonging and love is in each of us.

And so this archetypal figure is something that these practices actually bring into our immediate

senses that the practices cultivate and awaken these capacities for us.

So it becomes painful when we're living in a more small egoic self because in a way, the most basic way,

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