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Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation)

Tara Brach

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The Body Leaf From the Body Tree

A man sat under a body tree to pray for the benefit of all sentient beings. He felt something drop and it touched his head, and he opened his eyes,. On the ground was the leaf from the body tree. And you can't take a leaf from a body tree. But if falls, it's like fair game. So here he was, and it wad fallen kind of near him, and others had seen it too. And suddenly everybodys starting to crowd in. He has the same urge, and he grabs it, you know, just a in a few seconds. Each one of us gets caught in this human conditioning. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

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