1 00:00:00,516 --> 00:00:01,390 So let's begin. 2 00:00:08,001 --> 00:00:11,899 Take the time soon find whatever posture best 3 00:00:11,899 --> 00:00:12,694 supports your body. 4 00:00:16,289 --> 00:00:20,266 You few nice deep in and out brat. 5 00:00:24,107 --> 00:00:24,607 Feeling 6 00:00:24,985 --> 00:00:25,485 the 7 00:00:25,862 --> 00:00:26,362 alive 8 00:00:26,740 --> 00:00:27,538 of the potty, 9 00:00:30,897 --> 00:00:31,557 and the 10 00:00:32,011 --> 00:00:35,297 invitation for the mind, body, and heart 11 00:00:36,801 --> 00:00:37,301 to 12 00:00:37,676 --> 00:00:40,221 meet again in this moment now. 13 00:00:53,630 --> 00:00:54,530 Matt, welcome 14 00:00:55,308 --> 00:00:57,006 that we extend 15 00:00:58,518 --> 00:00:59,018 the 16 00:00:59,476 --> 00:01:02,749 organization, hopefully, with all of us. We all 17 00:01:02,749 --> 00:01:05,544 can feel that. That's what we're looking for 18 00:01:05,544 --> 00:01:06,422 in our practice. 19 00:01:18,086 --> 00:01:21,203 So 1 of the most useful ways I 20 00:01:21,203 --> 00:01:21,703 find 21 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:23,301 starting any practice 22 00:01:26,477 --> 00:01:28,245 Is this really opening 23 00:01:28,935 --> 00:01:29,411 wide, 24 00:01:29,966 --> 00:01:30,466 deep 25 00:01:31,076 --> 00:01:31,393 inward? 26 00:01:33,792 --> 00:01:36,337 What's here right now for you? 27 00:01:39,693 --> 00:01:42,501 This body, mind and heart 28 00:01:45,742 --> 00:01:47,595 with all of its elegant 29 00:01:48,130 --> 00:01:48,630 design 30 00:01:49,737 --> 00:01:50,793 so easily 31 00:01:51,725 --> 00:01:52,225 entangled. 32 00:01:57,388 --> 00:01:59,558 The living this life, complicated 33 00:01:59,933 --> 00:02:00,252 life. 34 00:02:06,704 --> 00:02:08,157 That low battery. 35 00:02:09,006 --> 00:02:09,959 Recharge soon. 36 00:02:11,484 --> 00:02:14,038 That is what we are doing, 37 00:02:14,437 --> 00:02:16,693 and we do it by this 38 00:02:18,109 --> 00:02:21,419 finding a way to let down the guard 39 00:02:21,797 --> 00:02:24,594 and greet with love and care. 40 00:02:26,432 --> 00:02:28,164 With wisdom and kindness 41 00:02:28,684 --> 00:02:30,682 whatever's here right now for you. 42 00:02:35,317 --> 00:02:37,495 Not as we think it should be 43 00:02:39,399 --> 00:02:42,127 not as we think we should be 44 00:02:45,062 --> 00:02:46,994 really radical willingness 45 00:02:47,607 --> 00:02:50,312 to meet ourselves as we are in this 46 00:02:50,312 --> 00:02:50,812 moment 47 00:02:51,505 --> 00:02:51,639 is 48 00:03:18,878 --> 00:03:20,897 From the early buddhist nun, 49 00:03:24,717 --> 00:03:25,217 Victor. 50 00:03:29,647 --> 00:03:31,976 When everyone else was meditating 51 00:03:33,797 --> 00:03:34,616 I'd be 52 00:03:35,070 --> 00:03:36,207 outside circling 53 00:03:36,582 --> 00:03:37,138 the hall. 54 00:03:40,736 --> 00:03:42,412 Finally, I went to confess. 55 00:03:43,289 --> 00:03:44,268 I'm hopeless, 56 00:03:44,965 --> 00:03:45,603 I said, 57 00:03:48,251 --> 00:03:50,166 The elder nun smiled. 58 00:03:52,241 --> 00:03:54,157 Just keep going. She said, 59 00:03:57,283 --> 00:04:00,016 nothing stays in orbit forever. 60 00:04:02,149 --> 00:04:05,155 If this circling is all you have 61 00:04:07,422 --> 00:04:09,569 Why not make this circling in your home? 62 00:04:14,366 --> 00:04:16,603 It did that she told me and went 63 00:04:16,603 --> 00:04:18,521 on circling the hall. 64 00:04:21,801 --> 00:04:24,289 If you find yourself partly in 65 00:04:25,221 --> 00:04:25,721 and 66 00:04:26,175 --> 00:04:27,050 partly out. 67 00:04:29,855 --> 00:04:32,829 If you find yourself drawn to this path 68 00:04:33,925 --> 00:04:35,522 and also drawing away. 69 00:04:39,753 --> 00:04:42,614 I can assure you you are in good 70 00:04:42,614 --> 00:04:43,091 company. 71 00:04:46,764 --> 00:04:48,060 Just keep 72 00:04:48,435 --> 00:04:48,935 going. 73 00:04:52,663 --> 00:04:55,545 Sometimes the most direct path 74 00:04:55,919 --> 00:04:57,904 isn't a straight line. 75 00:05:04,591 --> 00:05:06,418 Just keep going. 76 00:05:09,216 --> 00:05:09,716 Sometimes 77 00:05:10,250 --> 00:05:11,227 the most 78 00:05:11,761 --> 00:05:12,261 direct 79 00:05:12,636 --> 00:05:13,113 half, 80 00:05:14,878 --> 00:05:15,378 isn't 81 00:05:15,833 --> 00:05:17,185 a straight line. 82 00:05:34,092 --> 00:05:36,027 Does it like to hear that 83 00:05:36,564 --> 00:05:38,890 invitation in this moment? Right now. 84 00:05:39,845 --> 00:05:42,255 The most direct line 85 00:05:42,711 --> 00:05:43,211 isn't 86 00:05:43,586 --> 00:05:45,019 a straight path. 87 00:05:49,976 --> 00:05:53,404 Mindfulness is not how I think I should 88 00:05:53,404 --> 00:05:53,723 be. 89 00:05:55,411 --> 00:05:56,945 It's in that willingness 90 00:05:58,831 --> 00:06:01,058 to meet myself as I am, 91 00:06:01,694 --> 00:06:02,830 where I am 92 00:06:03,539 --> 00:06:04,177 right now. 93 00:06:05,692 --> 00:06:06,650 What's here for you? 94 00:06:08,803 --> 00:06:09,999 How do you acknowledge, 95 00:06:10,478 --> 00:06:10,978 validate, 96 00:06:11,595 --> 00:06:12,632 offer a breath? 97 00:06:15,751 --> 00:06:17,046 And come back home 98 00:06:23,724 --> 00:06:25,020 Whatever practice 99 00:06:25,794 --> 00:06:27,865 most speaks to you this morning. 100 00:06:29,870 --> 00:06:31,483 Remember this invitation 101 00:06:32,415 --> 00:06:34,427 in all of the moments. 102 00:06:36,567 --> 00:06:37,623 And this practice 103 00:06:39,351 --> 00:06:41,362 is not a straight line 104 00:06:44,942 --> 00:06:48,318 yet our meeting of ourselves where we are 105 00:06:48,457 --> 00:06:49,655 moment by moment. 106 00:06:50,628 --> 00:06:52,378 Is the direct path.