00:00:33 - Dharma Talk
00:02:43 - The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honourably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

00:03:30 - “An Ordinary Day,” by Norman MacCaig
I took my mind a walk
or my mind took me a walk–
whichever was the truth of it.
The light glittered on the water
or the water glittered in the light.
Cormorants stood on a tidal rock
with their wings spread out,
stopping no traffic. Various ducks
shilly-shallied here and there
on the shilly-shallying water.
An occasional gull yelped. Small flowers
were doing their level best
to bring to their kerbs bees like
aerial charabancs. Long weeds in the clear
water did Eastern dances, unregarded
By shoals of darning needles. A cow
started a moo but thought
better of it… And my feet took me home
and my mind observed to me,
or I to it, how ordinary
extraordinary things are or
how extraordinary ordinary
things are, like the nature of the mind
and the process of observing.
By MacCaig

00:05:35 - Joel leads a 6 minute Body Scan
00:30:32 - Joel takes us through a contemplation of the 3 poisons (2 minutes)
00:39:09 - Joel Invites Reflections

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