One thing I love about Johanneshof and Crestone too is feeling it in process. The sand on the pathways. We need some just after this bridge over here. The first bridge. But I feel good to see the sand. And I like seeing the plants on the windowsills. And hearing the hum of the furnace heating the building when I go by the stairs there. And I like hearing the plumbing and interactions of these pipes.

[01:05]

Because the noises mean something's happening. I like it. Because these noises mean that something's happening. I like it. Yeah. And in Crestone, they've torn down the whole, almost torn down, the whole studio part of the shop. It was one big room, sort of. Two-thirds of this room. And the roof was leaking, and it was in such bad shape, and it was supposed to be a temporary building.

[02:06]

We just half tore it down. And now it's all happening while I'm here, of course. When I'm away, they start tearing buildings down now. I'm sorry. That did happen at Tassar. When we first got to Tassar, we left somebody named Howard in sort of this custodian. And we just bought it, and Sukhiroshi and I came down to be there for a few days for some reason. And the kitchen was gone. It had been, Howard just turned, tore it down. And he said, I said, I mean, you're just taking care of the place, not destroying it.

[03:23]

He said, I was taking a hike on the top of the mountains here and I looked down and it looked so ugly I just came down and tore it down. I said, Howard, that was our kitchen. So we had to create another kind of kitchen. He stopped being the steward right away. Okay. So I woke up this morning and I thought, oh, today I have to disable the four postures. What do you mean with disable? Well, just what I said, disable the four postures. And I thought, that's a funny word.

[04:34]

I wouldn't think of that consciously. It's a dream word. And I realized that in trying to articulate something about our posture in four categories, It might put the four postures all in wheelchairs. But when something's in a wheelchair, you can see how the legs work or should work and things like that. But when something is in the wheelchair, then you can see what the legs are good for or how they should work. And in this dream, there was a horizontal elevator. Yeah, this is another way of thinking.

[05:44]

That's what we're talking about these days. This was an elevator that would go up certain floors and then go sideways to bring people to their door. There may be such things, but it may be only a dream machine. So I want to speak about the four postures in a way that doesn't permanently disable them. In that spirit, let me say I was surprised to see that Eric wasn't in his usual seat. Because one thing I noticed as soon as we have regular lectures is the pattern you all take.

[06:44]

And then I decide whether it's a psychological pattern or a mandalic pattern. And then I watch who, I can feel who's paying attention to the lectures or how they're reaching, the lectures are reaching them. And my experience is that seems to affect people's moving their position in the room from lecture to lecture. But still, it ends up to be a mandalic pattern. And I speak and feel Roland holding that end and Eric holding that end, and now suddenly you're in the middle.

[08:11]

I'm going to pretend you're over there. No, no. I'm just playing around, having fun. Don't take seriously anything I say. Never. I'm good. He's been doing this 30 years and he knows. Never. Never again. Okay. Yeah. So I've been trying to find words for these different territories, categories of experience. And I don't know if it's possible in German because I can use inner and outer, interior and exterior, interiority and exteriority, all differently as technical terms, and I don't know if they're translatable.

[09:27]

Not so well. Two of them we can easily do, but three is difficult. All right. But I'm not always consistent in our ears. But I push them out of bounds sometimes to see if it works and I pull them back into the territory I'm developing. Okay, so what we've been emphasizing the last days is what we can call the outer posture.

[10:44]

And maybe we can make an analogy, somewhat analogous, to a plant, the part of the plant that's above ground, and then there's the part of the plant which is below ground. And they're inseparable. Except for a while in a vase sometimes. Anyway, they're inseparable, but you can study them, observe them separately. So the plant has an outer form which is formed partly by the position of the sun largely in fact by the position of the sun the sun is sort of the spine of the plant And the plant finds its base and grows.

[12:05]

And the plant grows in relationship to other plants and so forth. And you can even discover a kind of intelligence. The plants know what other plants are near them and so forth. And then the plant also is growing underground. And there it's not about air space and the sun. It's about water space or the soil and the earth. constituents of the soil.

[12:54]

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