Myra and I have been talking for a while about co teaching program on Meditation, and so we're going to we're going to use today, since I have limited amount of energy as our as a experiment to see how it goes, how we dance together. We've danced together before, so we know we dance together well, but we'll see how it goes on Zoom. What we've been talking about is meditation practice and and having the the right view at the beginning, and then the methods as the path in the middle, and then understanding what we're looking toward as far as fruition goes. Now, there's a in general when we talk about the spiritual path, pretty much everybody, when we start says, has an idea of what this, the fruition is going to be, which is rainbows and unicorns and flowers and ooh, everything's nice, happy and peaceful, my rates echoing a little bit. If you could put yours on mute for now, so, you know, like, oh, and I'll be done with all this stuff that's, you know, in fact, the Yeah, it's, it's kind of impossible not to have that some kind of idea of things certainly going to be different. And of course, our expectation is that that it's all going to it's going to just only feel good. Now, as far as the teachings go, the notion of feel good changes over time, and the the the real question that comes in is, feel good, for whom? Because when we say feel good, what's the friend pour moi, then it's my version of what feels good, and it's picking and choosing and saying, I just want to experience this, and I don't want to experience that. So when we talk about the vision for the fruition, which we have glimpses of as we go along. We get the idea that, wait a minute, if I'm still there feeling good, that's a limited notion of feeling good. It's a feeling good that's beyond my conditions for feeling good. What qualifies for feeling good? And so if we, if we drop our expectations for what it's going to be like, that's a really good start. We could have some vision, however, that whether the good feeling or enlightenment, or whatever we want to call it, of the fruition of our practice. If we can just say whatever it is, it's going to be more vivid, more awake. That's realistic. The whole Buddhist path is about awake. In fact, that's what the the word Buddha means one who is awake. We sleep walk through the. So the our life and and this is the, you know, we do. This is the nightclub. So we talk about dream a lot, and as if we're in a dream, because we're super imposing our version of how we think things ought to be, or we would like things to be, or we pick and choose, and that super imposition that that covers up contact with how things actually are. And there are a lot of you know, examples of moments that we've, you know, experienced, where we encounter something that we go that really stops our minds,
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