Andy Warhol, the New York painter you may have heard of. He had 30 cats. And they were all named Sam. Which I think was his version of same. Hey, same, come over here. And I think that was his word for same. So how do we tune ourselves to sameness or thusness? When we're not conscious, we can't stand up. Or rarely. When you're in a coma, you don't stand up usually. When you're sleeping, you can't stand up. You have to wake up to stand up. Well, there is one example.

[01:02]

Sleepwalking. Can I tell our story about Michael? We all went to Christina, Eric, and Michael, and I don't know, we had about 12 of us, is that right? Yeah, something like that. And we were all sleeping in a small room of tatamis. I had a little house in Kyoto. And we all went and we had maybe two tatamis, that's about five and a half feet by, nearly three feet. And we had about two tatamis to three people.

[02:04]

And we're sleeping on the floor. And it's... Really hot in Kyoto. So we're all in our underwear. And suddenly, Mikhail starts sleep fighting. He's not conscious, this is dangerous. No, what is he up there doing? We were all scared to get up and try to stop him. So, and this happened. Many, quite a few nights.

[03:12]

Do you remember? Yes. But actually, it was quite easy to calm down. I was scared. It took more attention. But he'd be up there for quite a while, you know. He wasn't well enough to pat him, you know. So I would say that his intention body that he trains in karate training is trained in awareness, not in consciousness. I have a friend that Oh, some of you know I'm David Beck. Yeah. And sit cross-legged facing each other. For an hour or two. And see who can attack the other. And they find that neither one can make a move without the other anticipating it.

[04:39]

So this is clearly awareness and not consciousness. Host mind perhaps we can say instead of guest mind. So a simple instruction like don't invite your thoughts to tea thoroughly practiced and realized is introducing you to host mind and it's not just already there. When you're noticing it is to mature and is to develop it and eventually mature it. And in host mind you feel person sitting in the dark in front of you differently than in guest mind.

[05:57]

In guest mind you can wipe the other person out real quickly. If the other person was in guest mind. So in host mind we're tuned to being in a more fundamental sense than in guest mind. And in host mind... Well, anyway, let me tell a manicure. The last anecdote before lunch. Just an ordinary old story of trying to get to the Zendo at 3.30 a.m. Crestone is this high desert place, you know.

[06:59]

And it's pretty wild. I think most of you know, for example, Sophia loves it that all the, a lot of the animals, not elephants, a lot of the animals that are in her children's books are outside. Antelope, moose, deer... Mountain lions, antelopes, elks, bears, pumas. So it's kind of exciting. Sometimes there's a mountain lion with a cub that's around and we can hear it outside the Zendo sometimes. With a cub? With a baby. Yeah, so one morning I was heading down to the sender and I didn't have a flashlight.

[08:14]

Usually I have a little flashlight in my sleeve. Yeah, and it was one of those nights with no moon, no clouds, and completely Completely dark. High desert dry skies are black. So I'm walking along and it's about a 10 minute walk down from to the center and down a rather rocky path. And I like to wear Indian moccasins because I love the sharp stones. They brighten up my step. And the soft earth, it always makes me think, oh. I wish I could make the earth soft for every woman.

[09:29]

So I'm walking down rather carefully. I can't see anything and there's stones everywhere. Suddenly I was in a Field of beings. I could feel these idling Mercedes. I could not see anything. And I was in the middle of a herd of deer. American deer are a lot bigger than the deer here. But what was interesting to me is it was also a field of absolute trust.

[10:29]

I know, and there's a group of deer that's always around, and it's usually 11. And if I get the daylight and the deer and I are both in some sort of consciousness, they're a little wary and they sometimes bounce off. But I wasn't entering their field with consciousness. I was like David Beck sitting in the total darkness. So it's trying to feel the potential path.

[11:38]

And when I was in that mind, it was clear the animals trusted me. So these stories of hermits and than guys living with animals, wild animals, is probably true. Because in this awareness or host mind, the animals immediately know whether they can trust you or not. It was quite wonderful to stand there and it took me a moment to realize it was deer. First I just felt this field of being. And once I Yeah, once I just stood there and suspended any thinking and I felt maybe like Sophia does when she's cuddled up with Igor.

[13:05]

It was really nice and satisfying to be in the middle of this field of Pure being. And I drank it in for a while. And then I went and I couldn't see, but they made a little gentle space for me to get through. And then I went and sat and found myself in the same space. So maybe we should sit for a moment and then have lunch.

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