 So, this will be a very sacred gathering today, as the song says. And we would go beyond this tiny instant, this instant where everyone comes to this world. All who come to this world will come for death and sorrow. That's the definition of coming. You can call it whatever you want, incarnation, or arriving in a hologram or holding on to a hologram. But all who come come for one purpose, and that's death and sorrow. And their joys are so fleeting that they cannot be possessed, nor even grasped. Nor even grasped. You might think of fingers just trying to get a wisp of joy. And joy eludes the mind that believes it's in this world. You know, all these compromise ideas, as long as you're still here, you're not enlightened and so forth. Where Jesus says in his manual for teacher, he says that there is one teacher who is the same as the world, and that one is not a body or in a body. He makes it very clear the distinction of who is the savior of the world. That's why when people say, you have to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, or Jesus Christ is my personal savior, that doesn't cut it. It doesn't cut it because the Christ is not a body or in a body. It's a symbol that's being used in person with saying today how grateful she is for the symbol. Because it's like the Holy Spirit doesn't take a form. The Holy Spirit is literally, we can't see the wind. The Holy Spirit is really unmanifesting. Jesus seemed to be of all the cosmic images. He seemed to be an image that was a reflection of the Holy Spirit. Even though the Holy Spirit, Jesus says you cannot. The Word of God was made flesh. Strictly speaking, Jesus says in the Course, this is impossible. Because the Word is Spirit. And the Word can never be made flesh. In very great writing, you might have heard it for two years. No mind, no matter. There's no life, truth, substance, intelligence. So I think what a glorious opportunity we have today to go beyond the tiny instant to the experience of joy to, again, look at anything that seems to be an obstacle to the awareness of love's presence, or an attachment, or something in form that seems valuable. Because any of those things mean the same thing. Anything that's valued in and of itself in this world, even that fly that's been going around for the last two days, he's joining us. Anything that is seen in and of itself or valued in and of itself is, by definition, an idol made to take the place of the living Christ. And so that's what our joy is, living the experience of being free of attachments, free of ambitions, free of pursuits, free of reciprocity, free of exchange, free of, I'll scratch your back if you scratch my back, free of bargains, free of everything that would limit the mind to believe that it's in time and space, and soar into an experience of pure joy which is transcended, which is mystical, and which is our whole purpose to see and experience ourselves as beyond this world. So with all the metaphors, I like that song. It's a good kickoff song. Only an instant does this world endure. Not something we generally heard at the kitchen table when we were growing up from mom and dad. Only an instant does this world endure. It was always about the future or the past. It was always deflecting away from the Holy Instant. All of our conditioning, everything we were raised with, the whole thing. We bought it hook, lime, and sinker, a complete illusion. It has nothing to do with reality whatsoever. And then we have to go into the Holy Instant. We have to have an experience of the Holy Instant to know that the separation never happened. It's just one instant, but it's like, what's it going to be? Holy? Holiness? Or sin and death? Which face of the moment are we going to accept? It's not two moments, really. They aren't even side by side because Holy Spirit answered the belief in separation simultaneously as the belief arose. So it wasn't, it was that fast. We have to decide which of those two interpretations we value more. Innocence or guilt? And it's one instant. So the section from the Course that's coming to mind is the immediacy of salvation, where Jesus is saying, why would the good, he has a question, he has a direct question to the mind. Why should the good appear in evil's form? Why should the good appear in evil's form? We watched this movie, God's Not Dead, and there's a black man from South Africa who's always saying, God is good. And always, God is, all the time, always, God is good. If we come into a non-dualistic goodness being love, God is love, all the time, God is love, God is love, God is love. Why should the love appear in evil's form? Why should the good appear in evil's form? This is from the immediacy of salvation section, late in the text of the Course. Why should it take time to experience what you already are? Why should the good appear in evil's form? Why are there perceived difficulties around health, or around finances, or around the world, or around relationships, or around anything? Why should the good appear in evil's form? And then he follows up his question with another question, and is it not deception if it does? It's so deep. He's just saying, why should the good appear in evil's form? And is it not deception if it does? No wonder he has lesson 135, a healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan. No wonder he put the I Need Do Nothing section in the book, a much misinterpreted piece in the book, because it's interpreted from the ego lens of doing as if the doer is a fact, and now this doer need do nothing. This doer need only be. Well, this doer is a denial. What did Shakespeare teach us? To be or not to be, that is the question. I was saying that only an hour ago, and there was questions of whether it would be a wedding today or not, that to be or not to be, that is the only question. This isn't a question of a wedding or no wedding. We have not come here to discuss such silly matters. We have not come for ceremonies. We have not come to play with little ideas, children's toys and tinker around. It's to be, Shakespeare's question, to be or not to be is the question. And then Jesus is saying, why should the good appear in evil's form? He's sending us toward the be. He's not going to be content with the not to be. And who could... Listen, lesson 139, I will accept the judgment for myself in the course of the workbook lesson. He says, you are yourself. Of that there is no doubt. And yet you doubt it. The only thing in the universe, the only thing in the universe that you cannot doubt is your identity. It's who you are. That's the absolute only thing in the universe that's beyond doubt. And yet you doubt it. Self doubt is fear. Self doubt is guilt. To deny who you are is the only thing. That's how the song ends. We would go beyond this instant to eternity. To identity, identity, identity. Eternity, eternity, eternity. It's an intense song because it's like eternity is sending out a plea to say, remember me. Remember me. That's all in the Lion King. That's what Simba's father says from the clouds. Remember, remember. We have an identity. Don't get caught in the Pride Land. Don't get caught in a Kudamatala eating bugs. You may think it's a good life. You're not working when you're eating bugs, but still remember, don't be content with the bugs. So these are all important things because we're talking about what we call mysticism, or as Francis likes to call it, mysticism, which I looked out on the ocean of water today. Now that is mystism, the belief in myst, but we're interested in mysticism and we enjoy the laugh of mystism as well. But that's why we're all here to make it the most practical gathering. It has more guests arrive. This is one of the fun gatherings where it's going to be like a layer cake. This is the layer. Then we are going to have more layers and we'll see if there'll be a couple on top or not. We are in the middle of the wedding cake and we are practicing early in the workbook lessons of course. I do not know what a living is for and I don't think they do either. But that's why they'll come in. I'm trusting that all this is nothing in random. It's happening this way. It's going to turn into one heck of a parable. First time ever, this will be the wedding cake parable. As we discussed the whole incident. So that's what I want to throw out. Is there anything really worth valuing in the thoughts of this world? Because that's what all these sections of the course are about. Attraction to pain, attraction to guilt, attraction to death. Who would put such morbid topics in a book unless they were important? Those three subsections are together. Attraction to pain, attraction to guilt, attraction to death. There's some strange, that's the unholy instance, some strange spell that has been cast. The mist has fallen over the planet. Like with Siddhartha. It's a mist and everybody's under a spell. Everybody's asleep in the Siddhartha story. He has to leave the palace. He has to go and follow the song that he hears to leave the sleeping mist and he goes through asceticism which is trying to push away the comforts and pledges of the world and he has to go through meditation and all the different temptations as he leaves the palace. But we want to go so deeply into this. We were talking about the Gnostics too, how the Gnostics were right at the same time as Christ. Right after Christ Gnosticism was very strong and they actually believed that the world was an illusion. But they had some strange practices they actually believed because of this illusion they could indulge in all the pleasures of the world and do it as much as they could to prove that it was an illusion and it didn't work. Why? Because pleasure and pain are the same trick and Jesus says it's impossible to seek for pleasure without finding pain. Who on earth hasn't seemed to enjoy the pleasure? That's what keeps the mind stuck in the unholy instant. That's what the mesmerism is all about. If the world was only pain if every decision you ever made on planet earth was pain would it be difficult to hit the eject button and to fly and be free of the world if it was all pain there was no attraction to it. If every single decision was seen as death if every turn was seen as death would you take a turn? There would still be the fear of of returning because what you fear is not the fear what you fear most is not the fear it is the love that you will meet when you return. That we will keep on choosing death and pain because we are afraid of what will mean us when we let go of it. The attraction of pain and death becomes the escape from what will happen when we return. So that's sounding very much like the movie Inception like layers of dreaming because there's some kind of fear that's greater than earthquakes and tornadoes that is greater than the death of the body. That would be worse. So you might say it is kind of an interesting mesmerism. You have to be convinced that what you perceive is true. Even if it's not so great all the time that it's better that duality and opposites are actually better than return. Jesus had a very interesting thing to say in the Course about the word return. Do you ever read that part of the Course? Jesus says the ego likes the idea of return. He actually says that in the Course. Those are his exact English words. The ego likes the idea of return. Why? He continues on in the rest of the sentences. Anybody remember what the rest of the sentences are? The ego likes the idea of return comma because it can make the idea difficult. Because return is another concept. How? If it's a journey without distance to a goal that never changed, wouldn't return have to be another trick. How can you return to what you never left? A cat chasing its tail but the ego likes the idea of return. Isn't that amazing? We talk all the time about return to love return to God. Return to love, I think. Maria Williamson even died over a book. Return to love and the ego likes the idea of return because it can make the idea difficult. So how clever how sneaky, how ingenious this puff of nothingness is where it even likes the idea of return because it can make it difficult. This is why we have to go beyond the conceptual understanding of the Course of Miracles. This is why Jesus says you will believe this Course entirely or not at all. No bonuses for good tries. Trust not your good intentions that's in there. This Course will be believed entirely or not at all. So this is not about a conceptual understanding of the Course. That always seems to come first because if you're reading a book and it's called a Course you might try to grasp at it but it's going to be like one of those rides the rotor if anybody ever remembers the rotor from amusement parks it's the one where you stand and press your back against the wall and then it spins and then as it spins more and more the floor drops out and if you practice the Course in Miracles conceptually and with great passion and determination and great desire for the experience the Course points to not the conceptual theology because that has to drop along with the rest of the floor there's an experience that will come he says in the clarification of terms that will end your doubting an experience will come that will end your doubting and seek that experience don't seek for conceptual understandings joy conceptually a lot of people who tell me I haven't hit the joy point I feel times of release I feel times of healing relief I do feel miraculous times I've had miracles in my life but I haven't hit joy because joy has to be consistent miracles you have to be consistently reminded to hit the peak of joy not just a stab because the season even points to that a stab with joy, a stab with pleasure even uses the word stab how fleeting and brief is what a little stab is so that's what this interaction is this afternoon like an imitation time to really for all of us to look closely at what isn't that I still value about this world a little tiny thought that would have me believe that there actually is a future different from the past which I say actually the future is the same I call it the future past and the past past just to emphasize the point that it's all the past that's why the mystics or the psychics can read the future because they're not reading the future they're reading the Akashic records they're reading the past and it's only the belief that the future is different from the past that is the root cause of all suffering in this world the belief that the future is different from the past how could you have ambition if you knew that your ambition was actually a death wish that what's so common in this time space world you might have remembered that line from the movie Gandhi where he's walking down in South Africa with the American journalists named Walker and Walker says to him Mr. Gandhi this is an Ashwami's building in South Africa Mr. Gandhi you're quite an ambitious fellow the American says to Gandhi and Gandhi's reply I hope not I remember when I first was in the theater watching Gandhi I just it was so fun to hear those three words because that's a common thing in the western world the civilized world maybe not in the aborigines they're probably not an ambitious they don't really have a lot of ambition in their culture because they're very into the moment and telepathy but for the western world to have no ambition is you are a bum you are lazy you are not a contributing member of society you have no value you're a castaway we call it an American welfare if you are not ambitious you are on welfare for I guess they have a word for it over in Denmark same word same Danish version of the same word and that's not a good word when you look at it closely you say fair well fairing well is actually I'm going to start with political I've just lost the entire political system but truly fairing well is to say fair well to the world to all aspects so this is where we get into the deeper experience to say well what is it if you journal you say oh I still like my cat or I have good investments I have a good best thing that allows me to travel and whether that's the same idea death wish recycled I have amazing support from the world I get government assistance I get by with a little help from my friends even that if you are dependent on your friends that is still the death wish because in lesson 76 Jesus actually puts friendship among economics and nutrition he calls it the laws of friendship are even made up by the ego even friendship is part of the death wish getting deep when you start to see knowing the right he mentions that in lesson 50 being liked and knowing the right people or two of his things believing you are sustained by something other than the love of God he mentions those specifically there so let's do it this is our wedding this is our union the one that lasts forever that never has a beginning and never never ends where the love never dies for faith so the idea of a wedding like we were supposed to have today might have so if we should perceive it in a way that would be useful to us how would we perceive a wedding we see it as a symbol of love and in this case a symbol of the whole relationship and we see it as as a way a part of the path that we walk because the idea that to attach to nothing in the world to realize that everything is a signal pain or pleasure could put you in a position of pure apathy because you still have the notion of I am a doer of some kind so I want you to do something so the idea of getting married isn't doing but it's our sort of undoing in the form that we are talking about today it's interesting too that if you throw the word out wedding on planet earth it has a context and that context is an event I've talked to women who said I visualized my wedding since I was seven years old and it's been a visualized my wedding day for years and years and years sometimes 10, 15, 20, 30 years to visualizing this day and this day is an event so what we can say is when we talk about an event events only could even seem to exist on the timeline there are no events in eternity if everything is pure spirit and oneness then any event would be to try and take a small little scene out of the quantum field to use the physics term where everything is connected energy everything is unified that's why they call it the unified field but to pull an event out of the quantum field and give it a name wedding or marriage or whatever is no different than trying to pull a glass out of the quantum field it's the same thing pulling an event called marriage is the same as pulling this glass and that's why in the workbook of course miracles Jesus says you could receive vision of Christ light beyond this world you could receive vision from a table if you remove all of your ideas he says in the workbook from the table so sides, shape, texture color, covering height width that sound has a lot of past associations if I go like that on a table already the egoic mind has a determination for that table this has a real association it has a title so you see that even the sounds everything everything is perceived is coming from an association of separation including the event called marriage it has to come from a past reference how would you know what marriage would be and then the other thing that's funny about marriages is funny thing about events is they seem to be subject to a number of things one of them though is happen or don't happen did the wedding happen or did the wedding not happen true marriage of we'll call it the union of spirit there's not a question that we're not happening it isn't a subject to happenings or not happenings and then we get deeper into this idea of hypotheticals because here we are in this instance right now and then the wedding the question about the wedding becomes what a hypothetical question the course in the clarification of terms Jesus says the mind is described as if he puts as if Jesus puts him in italics the mind is described as if it has two parts which is what the course is about right mind is wrongly the mind is described as if and he puts those two words out of the whole sentence in italics so whatever is an event on will say the event horizon any event in time and space has to be an as if event and as if what as if what, as if the separation occurred because the whole teachings of the course are that the atonement is the total escape from the past and a complete lack of interest in the future that's how he defines atonement so you can see how we zoomed into an experience total escape from the past complete lack of interest in the future that's this with our no ambition thing so basically marriage as is described in this world is on the timeline but you are asking it the question of how do I perceive the marriage in a helpful way that's your question now having also said what I said the only thing that could make anything helpful at all with regard to the symbols of the world is one simple question what is the purpose because if it first of all doesn't have any true existence it's just a symbol it's actually a symbol of symbol twice removed from reality because when we use the word marriage we're into twice removed from reality but what is it for so in our talks with Sally Ann Skype last night in heart in my talks with Yami during the drive down here after he picked us up at the airport and I was in the front seat saying I really enjoy your ancestors he's played that with Socrates I was really going with the core of why I'm in Greece why I seem to be in Greece is for the depth of the wisdom of the ancient Greeks they had pools all day long they didn't build, they didn't have careers they did nothing, they sat in the hot tub all day long pondering one question what is it for that's why they were not building statues and Roman columns it was the neighbors over there they still have the Catholic Church and all that over there that's what happens when you start building beware of building sit in the pool and meditate and contemplate and ponder before you move the baby finger to start to build because look what we've got next door, I haven't been there ever so I'm just talking about hypothetical somebody told me that they had a lot of columns over there and Caesar and all these kind of things but it's this building idea that was the problem of the whole thing so what is a wedding for and then that's what I share with Salient is for joy, it's for love when people have said I was in Dallas, Texas one time a suburb north of Dallas and I was hosted by an Indian family and the husband who invited me there, his name was Arvin he was an Indian man and then we would have these sessions in the morning sessions in the afternoon and then actually in the middle of the day everybody brought food so they had like six cakes and pies and it was this giant course of miracles retreat pond luck and as we all came together we were cutting the food and it's vegetarian and meat and everything in there huge thing Arvin gets his glass and he goes David David David David David David every time we eat a bite of food we are reinforcing the separation every time we eat and chew and adjust the food and look at all the food we've got we are reinforcing the separation this is Arvin Kumar so I said that is not a reason to eat so I said David okay then please tell us and I said why do you eat Arvin why do I eat why do I eat and eat because I'm hungry I said that is not a good enough reason to eat that is not a good enough reason to eat there has to be more reinforcing the separation with every bite and chewing it can't reincarnation ideas and there are karma ideas that is not even in the matrix one of the matrix is because this is our karma why are you this is our karma I had that question just recently in Portugal what is karma and I said didn't you ever hear the Beatles' instant karma John Mannen solved that one in his song is the karma so they said okay everybody good David why should we eat and I said we will eat for joy that is the only thing it is a celebration of our creation by God it is a celebration of the Christ it is a celebration of divine innocence it is a celebration of who we are we will eat for joy okay everybody you heard it from David for joy and it was it was an extremely joyful lunch because the focus had shifted from the metaphysics this was like taking an intellectual understanding of the course and projecting it on to chewing and eating the food we are reinforcing the separation every time we eat there are no actions in this world that reinforces separation Jesus says it is with your thoughts alone that we must work he never goes into morality he never gets into ethics he never gets into some even spiritual teachers talk about right action and Jesus never really gets into right action even that is a common word in some spirituality he is always talking about right-mindedness and what right-mindedness is is causation all right-mindedness is seeing that and you are not at the mercy of anything of this world that nothing of the world has the power to give you peace or take it away there is no causation in the world there is nothing in form food doesn't make you fat the lack of food doesn't make you skinny caffeine doesn't keep you up at night you know we could go on and on and on with thousands of what Jesus calls spurious cause-effect relationships which are much to do about nothing because they are all based on that so actually the short answer to your question is in the hypothetical situation that there is an event called a wedding it would have to be for joy it couldn't actually be for another reason and that's why we are asked not to seek for the truth but to seek and find everything that blocks us from the awareness of love's presence we are asked to look for the obstacles we are not asked to seek for what is true we are actually told one point to seek for what is false if you are going to be a seeker Jesus says don't seek for the truth don't be as a truth seeker be a false seeker because the false is what blocks you from the truth the truth just is and everything that you value that is held as important to talk to the awareness of that truth so typically why do people get married on the linear timeline they get married for sometimes financial security they get married for the sex they get married for the sex they get married for the sex I remember one time I was reading this researcher named Cher Height and she interviewed all these single people all these married couples and she gave them all these questions and she said to all the married couples what is the greatest thing about being married and what is the worst thing about being married then she turned to the single people and she said what is the greatest thing about being single what is the worst thing about being single guess what the answers were overwhelmingly the married couple said the greatest thing about being married was intimacy. And the worst thing about being married was loss of freedom. They interviewed the single people. What's the greatest thing about being single? Freedom. And what's the worst thing about being single? Loneliness, isolation, lack of intimacy. Now, we come above share height to the Master Jesus. What does Jesus have to say? He says, freedom is not of the body. He says, what do you want? Freedom of the body or freedom of the mind. For both you cannot have. You have to make a choice between freedom of the body and freedom of the mind. When is freedom of the body? Freedom of mobility. All the people, the people that were single. Freedom to travel, freedom of mobility of the body, not tied down by family life, not tied down by attachment. But you see these categories of humans coming in, they're trying to answer anything that goes in the direction of believing you can actually have freedom in the body. It is part of a distortion. It's part of the ego belief that you can actually find freedom in and through the body. When Jesus says the only use of the body is an instrument for the Holy Spirit. It's a communication device for the Holy Spirit. He says that in a number of places. He actually slips one zinger in there. Some people have never found it in the Course, but I found it. The body has no purpose. He actually slips it in there. He slips a Mickey in the whole thing. It was too strong for the ego to say that, but he, you know, sold communication, communication, and then there's no purpose. Because forgiveness in the end, when you go back into the unified field, where is this? This is gone in the happy dream. It's gone in the forgiven world. It's gone in thinking of it as something in and of itself. It's just back into the field. It's back in the dance. It's everything else. So, and I think that's the same thing with, with the freedom for the single people. That is the same for the intimacy, because Jesus says, minds are joined, bodies do not. That's pretty clear. That addresses intimacy. That you can't, you won't achieve revelation, you know, through the body. That's purely an identification and an opening to the great race in the mind. But that, if you really start to see that, you see that, that intimacy attempted through the ego's means of finding intimacy results in still unfulfillment. And we could say that even with marriage attempts, that's one of the biggest reasons. Maybe financial security could be one, could be, you know, sex. It could be the procreation of the species, believing in linear time and thinking you have to progenual, you know, procreate, and so on and so forth. You know, really, if we look at our reasonings, we can start to see as you go through it, that there must be a reason for marriage that's beyond any of those things. Because they're all temporary. They're actually part of the hiding instead of the finding. It's for seek not outside yourself or it will fail, Jesus says, and you will weep each time an idol falls. So any time the purpose is for trying to fill a gap, you know, they always say I had to meet my other half. Or sometimes they even need a better half. There's a little comparison in that. I need my better half. I don't know if I want to. If you're that lacking, probably really want to meet your better half. Because that's the sense of trying to look for fulfillment in another, in duality. And that's the most common thing. It's almost like you and me against the world. Sometimes it feels like you and me against the world. It's like batten down the hatches. It's a hostile, vicious world that I find my soulmates like when all the others you can come on me to stay. You see, it's like batten down the hatches. We've got a hell of a storm called linear time. It's like the perfect storm for the ego. It's the storm that's unsolvable. It's the storm that never seems to stop while you're in it. Death, sickness, disease hammer you. Get your insurance. Quick. Do some aerobics. Get your heart rate up. Oh, nutrition. You better watch what you eat. Because death, the grim reaper, is always there ready to take your life. Or you're caught in a storm, a tsunami or something like a little leaf snuffed out because it's a death wish. This whole world is. So oftentimes that's another reason why the idea of marriage comes in. It's companionship. And you know Jesus actually addresses companionship even in the Course. Does anybody remember what he says? He says, you really believe you are alone unless you are with another person. He actually is addressing companionship as specialness. Companionship as a defense against the truth. Like sickness, 136, sickness as a defense against the truth. Ultimately, ultimately companionship. Remember, it's a concept. Is a defense against the truth. And that's another reason why people get married. If you have to really look at the reasons to get married, if our couple reviews my teachings today after the fact, we might even talk about a few of these things when they come. But this is what it comes down to. It's more of, it's not really a question of should I get married or should I stay single. It's more a question of what is the purpose. Am I going to give this symbol of a couple or whatever over to the Holy Spirit to use to unwind my mind from every single concept that I believe. Am I going to use the mirroring of that for the purpose of letting go of everything. Like Buddha said, empty your mind. For emptying your mind of everything, then that would be a worthy purpose. That would be the answer. That's a long answer. I gave this short answer 10 minutes ago. So it gives us steady our feet, our father. Like how we come to stability and steady our feet. Let me see, let me truly see what this is about. It's more, now what am I going to get out of the marriage? What am I going to give? What is my purpose? What's my purpose? Now this is a ring. It's on a finger. I use it for illustrated purposes. It's a circle. It has no beginning and no end. So it's a symbol. People call it a ring or whatever. It's not representing an event on the timeline. It's just a device. It's a symbol being used by the Holy Spirit right now as a reminder of our purpose, which is not, doesn't have beginnings and ends. You can't say I'm going to begin this forgiveness today. I hope to reach the end of it. That's the thing you like to say in your gathering recently. Francis looked at the crowd. Everyone was saying, how many steps are there in forgiveness? Is it two steps, three steps? Twelve steps? We are the living forgiveness. I am forgiveness. She spoke the truth. Then we have an email this morning from that, where somebody showed up as a devotee. I went to come and, I see that you are teaching mysticism. I won't even bother to talk about what's going on in my timeline. I just want to come and give myself over to that. I am forgiving forgiveness. Yes, that was beautiful. It was a beautiful email. I saw that. She's CC her partner too, so that's good. That'll be interesting. It's fun to see how it plays out. But she was making her stand. I recognize and I want to devote myself to that recognition of I am forgiveness. Because Francis was speaking too, that forgiveness isn't specific. The Bible said, forgive seven times seventy. I've already tried that. It's four hundred ninety times that. I already did that. It didn't work. But it was just meaning a lot. Actually, it's not really a lot. Forgiveness is a state of mind. It's a presence in which you see the false is false. It doesn't really apply to forgiving Aunt Jane or Uncle Fred, forgiving your mother, forgiving your father, forgiving your son, your daughter. It's way, way, way, way, way beyond that. And it seems to be a practice, but it's actually not a practice at all. It's actually a presence inspired by joy, inspired by happiness.