Hi, thanks so much for stopping by and welcome. We just got back from having our four day retreat up in

Harrison Institute, which was beautiful, with beautiful people, and it was a wonderful honor to be able to present the darma for four days.

I would like to note that if any of you are in New York City and feel like

joining us in person next Tuesday at 7 PM.m. at Grand Street Healing about two blocks from the East

River where there are the most spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline and amazing places to sit by the water and eat delicious

food. If you are available on Tuesday, September 12th, do stop by and join us.

If you would like to support my work, the donation is Venmo at Darma punce NYC and PayPal is on the Darma punce website and the

Patreon as well. And so tonight I'm going to try to explain about what in Buddhism is called

the transcendent, how we can go about experiencing it in a meditation.

Now I must note that discussing the transcendent

because it's a state that or where language and normal representation is no longer a organizing factor.

So much like extremely awe-inducing events in life

or dreams or for some people, plant medicine, psychodelics, all of the experiences where the dominant left hemisphere,

which translates to everything into language

and concepts, begins to fall away.

Those experiences, while very true and valid are also the least easy to talk about.

So it's my job as a Buddhist teacher to try to convey or explain what in many ways is almost impossible to explain.

So my favorite place to start in such a talk

is one of the more wonderful and famous Buddhist sutas from the original teachings of the

darma in the Polycannon. There's this wonderful story of a the Bahia of the bark cloth who was respected, revered, honored, venerated.

And he was pretty confident and at one point announced aloud that he had achieved enlightenment.

And after that occurred, an angelic spirit, and said said visited him and said you sir are not enlightened nor have you

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