is it recording I don't know
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maybe you can stop it
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maybe you can introduce it when I get my people oh okay
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haha
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hello
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Namaste Haribo peace be with you and upon you
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I love that sign
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I don't know from John Lennon and Yoko Ono
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I was just a kid I was eight years
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maybe 6 or seven when they were doing it
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when they had the or maybe it was before the
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I know Lennon was shot murdered in 1980
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but they had a beautiful sign up somewhere in London
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and New York City
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go ahead
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war is over war is over if you want it
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this also reminds me of that poem I like by Basho
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in making a cup of tea I stop the war
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not that you magically stop the war somewhere else
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but really you stop the war for a moment for yourself
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taking
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taking a
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a moment of transcendence to transcend above or beyond
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the constant challenges
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of the body and mind in the material world
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and to taste the nectar for which we're always anxious
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that's
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and we're just gonna do a little chanting on our beats
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you can listen
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you can put on your headphones if you like
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we're not doing this to impress you
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but maybe just to impress upon you
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that this is something you can take with you everywhere
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it's so it's so beginner and advanced at the same time
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I know people that the most advanced people
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I've ever met in my life
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they're also the most kind and humble
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and hard working and devoted
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but they still chant on their beads
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you know and it becomes a real pleasure
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but in the beginning sometimes
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you just have to do a practice
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in order to get a real taste for it
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if you just do a few and try it for one day
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you won't know but for the last 26 years
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no matter where I've gone
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no matter what I've been doing
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I've always been able to have these beads with me and
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they're not eternal but the practice I do on them is
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and it's the practice of mantra meditation
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Ma from Manas mind to give shelter to the mind
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we're looking we're always looking for shelter
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we're always looking to
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just like bees too
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we're always looking for nectar everywhere
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we're looking for pleasure
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and what I found and many others have found
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is that in transcendent sound
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you can
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I can find shelter and pleasure at the same time
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and in a way where
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certainly gone through periods
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where I wanted to try and find pleasure
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to to
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to satisfy that pleasure through my tongue
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and I just get fat
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so the nice thing about chanting on beads
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is that we get shelter and pleasure
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without the downsides of
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seeking those things in material life
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it's a very simple process
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but it's also very
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it's very humbling also which is a very nice
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thing to feel whenever I feel a shred of humility
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it's a very sweet taste
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one that I pray and hope that I can expand
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how about you
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I I didn't find any exercise yet
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that calms the mind so quickly
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yeah
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so we're just gonna do a little
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we'll just do this together for a little bit
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we'll I usually don't say it so loud
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I just say it out loud enough that I can hear it
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but I would I have found that when my mind
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or my body or both are more agitated
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if it's safe and appropriate to do so
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I I chant a little louder and it really it brings
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it brings sometimes I'm furious on my
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you know my I'm rolling the bead back and forth
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sometimes I'm just really peacefully touching it
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but I'm engaging the sense of touch
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the hearing the the voice
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we have nice pictures up too that we can engage in
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in our eyes being engaged in transcribe the
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speech
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into English
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Gopal Gobindarama Madana Mohana
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we'll do it a little faster
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but again
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you just do it as long as you can hear the sounds
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you can say it as slow or fast as you like
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but we'll just do it for some cadence
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we'll do you know 10 to 15 beats here
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and it's so nice for us and please share in
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in in this practice with us of
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of Japa Japa mala meditation on beats
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Goranga
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Goppa Govindaram Madana Mohana
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madana mohana copala go vinderama
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madana mohana copala go vinderama
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madana mohana haribo haha
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whoa it's very nice and stereo no
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no it's
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the sun came up
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and I was just feeling this warmth coming over me
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not just physically
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but also in my heart and I felt sort of a giddiness um
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I find that when I surrender more to the sound
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it bubbles up some
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some feelings of joy and ecstasy in my heart
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and I get a little
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sometimes I get a bit silly and jump up
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and jump around oh yeah
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like the song that you found right
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yeah this transcendental music
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he started to play it and then he just started to
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you just started to smile and laugh and jump around
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and he was chanting and it was so contagious yeah
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it's really sad we can't play music on YouTube
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because of property rights
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but um we'll try to play
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Maria got me a really nice guitar and a Diana yeah
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and we'll try to do more uh kirtan together on the road
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we're heading over to the U
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K soon so you'll see some different sights and places
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you're gonna take a ferry across to Italy
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and then drive through Italy oh
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we'll do some on the ferry yeah
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it'll be fun I'll have some ferry meditation
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ferry meditation and then we'll get into the UK and
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yeah that would be something we're letting go of some
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some more material things that we don't need
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or we can't use anymore
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and they're hard to carry around in a small van so
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we've been in this process
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well maybe this will be a good chance to introduce
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but over the next 10 to 15 days
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we had a lot of people want to ask us more about
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how we got came to the place of just
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having a lot more free freedom free time
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look at that bird over there oh
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where it's it's on the road on the road yeah
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on the road oh there oh my God yeah
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it's really colourful
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sorry so no
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somebody love I I birds get my attention they're uh
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they represent freedom to me
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they fly and they sing so beautifully yeah
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if I could only sing like no
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we just concluded the first two weeks of Choo
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Choo magic on the daily
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so maybe we can start diving in
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into some topics that yeah
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people are asking us about
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a lot of the practices we do is all about it redefining
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a lot of people think wealth is one thing and we're
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we're just trying to give a different perspective
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on what wealth is is
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is unfolding for us inside
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and then the exterior wealth
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it looks very different than it might have 30 years ago
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when I was 20 years old or whatever
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no matter what happens to me in the future
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I hope I can come to this type of understanding
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more and more at a much younger age
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I'm eternal but
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you know I don't think this might be my last
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my last kick at the can around the planet yeah
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I still got a lot of work to do
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so that's good it's up to god
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in my activities but so we
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we were thinking of taking wealth and all ways
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as a guiding topic for the next two weeks
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yeah and we find too
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that in our studies
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almost all the scriptures around the world
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they talk about equal weights and measures
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keep that for the next one yes
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yeah and they talk usury and what is money
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and how to engage money
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so that it becomes spiritually purified
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and we want to talk about some new technologies too
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that have a great deal of potential for goodness
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for good in Bitcoin and in uh
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how do how do we keep things real when we've got a
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a I and central bank digital currencies
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and all of these networks that are very
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can be used very negatively
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but just like nuclear energy
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we can use it for good as well it is
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there's a great deal of possibility
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but like always without the right
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without a purified or at least um
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a better understanding of consciousness and who we are
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a lot of these technologies just get used for
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for bad things so just like electricity
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you can use it to make some toast
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or you can use it to electrocute someone
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ha ha so or or
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you know use that force for
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for negative things so
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I would love to be offering more
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just Frank discussions about uh
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how we simplified a lot of our
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uh processes how we
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the simple processes we engage in
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the habits that we've cultivated
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and continue to cultivate
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so that we have this really nice chance to
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spend a lot more time in reflection
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in contemplation
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in deep thoughts around some beautiful scriptures
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Antra meditation japa kirtan garam breathing and
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eating a very simple diet
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peaceful diet
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and just some simple things you can do
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no matter what stage of life you're in
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some very simple things that are profound over time
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that you can do just around meal times and
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with some incense and a few things
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you can you can really
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deeply begin to develop more gratitude
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and forgiveness and thankfulness in your life
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and share that with those around you
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that's the wealth that we're truly looking for
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is love for god love for others
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more constant understanding of our true identity
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purpose function position
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when we know who we are and where we belong
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and how we fit in
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in a sense into the cosmic scheme of things
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it's easier just to be more of ourselves
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and I I've personally found that to be incredibly
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a incredible relief
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we talk about shelter like an umbrella
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but just
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having a certain level of surrender and acceptance
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gives a great deal of relief
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as well because we
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I don't have to do it on my own anymore
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you've never been alone in the first place
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yeah that's true as well
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do you want to tell the story about
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the footsteps in the sand
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oh gosh
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he said you that touched you so deeply at some point
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yeah well
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a long time ago many moons ago
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uh I was a
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as a 17 year old I went to Japan for a year for
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for an exchange and my oldest childhood friend
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my best friend at the time
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and still an incredible friend
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I mean I now know my best friend is the supreme person
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and no disrespect to my oldest childhood friend
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I admire him a great deal
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he's a very intelligent person
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and very compassionate as well
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and community driven and wants to help the world with
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just taking better care of
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of of the world we have
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but we used to write each other a lot of letters
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a lot of postcards and we were always like doodling and
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you know
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we would take a nice thing and we would draw like
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a monster coming up out of the sea or whatever
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and
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in one of these exchanges I have I've
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I've gotten one of these you know
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I've been away I was away in Japan for the first time
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for a very long time away from my family
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my culture my home
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everything that seemed familiar and normal to me
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and it was a big part of shaking up that world
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and getting me more into meditation
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because I began a more formal practice of
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of the impersonal silent meditation when I was in Japan
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one that had
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that carried over from my next door neighbor
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who was my godfather since I was born
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a Japanese man named Paul Mikatsu
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he also taught me meditation at a very young age
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but again it was an impersonal
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quiet silent meditation
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but when we were over there
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you know I
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I could feel the feelings of uh
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I felt really sad sometimes
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very lonely even though I was surrounded by
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and the Japanese people were wonderful
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I stayed with some incredible families
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I'm hoping next year to go back and meet them again
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these families that took me
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in
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as a young man and hosted me as if I was their own son
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they were so kind to me
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and people in Japan were so incredibly
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oh so respectful and clean and neat
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and I really admire Japan
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and the Japanese people and their culture
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and their
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many of their social arts
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I got involved in judo and then in
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we go to the Rock Gardens every month in Kyoto
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to study with the Zen master there
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my my
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my father my host fathers were really happy
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because no one wanted to go do the old things
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the old ways with them and I did
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and we kind of I was kind of like having lots of dads
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they took me around to see the ancient sites
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Nara
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and some of the ancient pilgrimage routes in Shikoku
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and Kyushu
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lots of beautiful nature there as well
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but in one of these exchanges
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there was one of these very hallmark type card
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where you see the footsteps in the sand
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yeah I mean
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millions of people have seen this image and it's like
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it's a little story like
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about oh God
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you know uh
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there's a there's two sets of footprints
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as if God's always with us
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and then this person only sees one set of footprints
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he's like why
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why Lord
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at the time I'm doing a terrible job paraphrasing it
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but in the in the card
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basically the person is asking God
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why during my hardest parts
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of life
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did you leave me there's only one set of footprints
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and he said no my
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my child that's when I was carrying you
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and something in that really hit me
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there was some transcendent wisdom
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in that hallmark card and in that
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and it really dawned on me in that moment
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it became covered up again and then exposed again
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but it really felt like
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I just felt this huge yearning in my heart
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to suddenly realize
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to just realize how much I needed someone
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higher than me bigger than me
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I needed the shelter and Protection of
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the telephone
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calls to my biological parents weren't cutting it
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I needed some
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I needed something much bigger than me to give me
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the feeling of being at home
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you know and of being protected of being loved
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lots of people there at the time
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it was you know
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there weren't as many foreigners there
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and it was like being a rock star to some degree
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had a lot of people coming up and taking pictures
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and wanting to touch you and fawning over you
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wanting to take you out for karaoke here
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just to be seen with their friends and
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and it didn't really that
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it was fun for a week or two
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but it became actually quite annoying and troublesome
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and it didn't satisfy
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it didn't give me a sense of a good feeling
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I just wanted to be left alone
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you know uh
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but that I
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I just remember
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being profoundly impacted by that feeling of
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I just that's so true
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I need someone to carry me
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through the trials and tribulations of this world
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being in strange lands can
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can precipitate that that feeling
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so just know that you're never alone and that actually
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the supreme person you're never alone haha
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hmm
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and it's nice to be around others
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that can help remind me of that
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or it's really
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I encourage you to find other people to be with
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who can remind you of that
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especially in this time where it's just really nuts out
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out in the world just complete madness
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um there is no really good leadership out there
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hardly at all
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um there are a few
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few leaders that are inspiring
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yeah it's getting late
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it's getting late yes
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time to wrap things up yeah
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and I wanna see the goats
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oh you can hear the
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that's right we can hear goats
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can we see the goats yeah
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yeah they put these lovely bells
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they're almost like you know
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the cows in Switzerland
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when they have the bells around their necks
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can we see the goats please
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yeah let's go see the goats
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we like hanging out with the
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you know it's nice
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the animals do love the chanting too
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you know that's another thing
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the transcendent sound
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you can share it with every living entity
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it's really hard to to drive by a cat that's suffering
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at the side of the road
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with a limp and just silently meditate with it
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and you'll crash your car
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but you can chant aribo or goranga out the window
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and the cats always like there
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they always look
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and it's very nice way to give some mercy
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some kindness some shelter
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a taste of the transcendental
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to people and other bodies
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everyone's looking for the same shelter and love
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so with that
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hi all hi all
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Namaste and peace be with you and upon you
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thanks for hanging out with us today