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I have arrived, I am home.

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It's very simple, 
but that is the practice.

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And walk in such a way that you arrive,
and you feel like home.

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You do not walk 
like a sleepwalker anymore,

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you are walking as a free person,
you are walking like a Buddha.

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To be a Buddha and walking 
on earth is possible.

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A Buddha is a man who is awake,
who can be in the here and the now,

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who can enjoy the present moment.

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You can be a Buddha, 
walking on this beautiful planet.

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Is very important that you feel at home
in the here and the now,

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only when you feel at home
in the here and the now

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that you really have peace.

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Without peace, 
there's no happiness and joy.

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Peace is the absence of conflict.

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When you deny the here and the now,
when you are not satisfied with yourself,

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what is there when you are
searching for something else,

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you are not at peace with yourself.

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When you breathe in and bring
your mind home to your body,

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you make peace between mind and body.

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Very often, in your daily life,
you left your body alone.

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When you spend two hours
with your computer,

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you forget completely
that you have a body.

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In that moment, body and mind
are not together,

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you are not truly alive,

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when body and mind 
are away from each other.

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So, breathing in mindfully
you ride on your inbreath

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and go home to yourself.

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You bring your mind home
to your body,

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eternally, you are fully present
in the here and the now.

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And that's only two seconds,
three seconds of breathing in,

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to bring the mind home to your body.

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And there, mind and body together,

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you are established 
in the here and the now

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and you get in touch 
with the wonders of life.

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That's simple enough.

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So, every breath you take,
every step you make,

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should be able to bring you home
to the here and the now,

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that is the basic practice.

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And you don't have to struggle,
to force yourself to do that,

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because breathing in like that
can be very pleasant,

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and making a step like that
can be very pleasant also,

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there is no violence, there is no forcing,
just awakening,

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to wake up from a long dream,
from a long sleep.

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You wake up to the fact that life
is available in the here and the now,

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that you are alive, that the wonders
of life in you and around you,

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and you can enjoy being alive,
right here and right now.

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And you have more than enough
conditions in order to be happy,

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so that is insight, that is mindfulness
and concentration.

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That back the value of your breath
and your step;

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a breath made like that,
a step made like that can bring you

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a lot of freedom and happiness.

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I have arrived, I am home.

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You feel comfortable in your home,
your true home is not in Germany,

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in Holland, in Singapore, your true home
is the here and the now,

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where you can touch the wonders of life,
your ancestors are available

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in the here and the now.

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I have arrived, I am home,
in the here and the now.

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The here and the now is where I arrive,

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is my true home.

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I am solid, I am free.

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This is not wishful thinking,
solidity is what you cultivate by walking.

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Every step helps you cultivate
more solidity.

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To be solid means to be established
truly in the here and the now.

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The past cannot pull you away,
the future cannot pull you away,

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you are well established 
in the here and the now,

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you are solidly established 
in the here and the now.

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And with one step, breathing in,
you can contemplate that solidity,

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and you are free, I am solid, I am free,

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you are free because the past
and the future,

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your projects, your sorrows
cannot pull you away anymore.

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So, while walking you cultivate
more solidity and freedom,

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and that has the power to heal you,

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and to bring you happiness.

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So there's a song everyone may like 
to memorize

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in order to practice walking or breathing,

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"I have arrived, I am home,
in the here, in the now.

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I am solid, I am free,
in the ultimate, I dwell".

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In the ultimate means that you see that

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this physical body of yours
is not the only body you have.

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You have a cosmic body,

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and you have to recognize 
your cosmic body,

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if you look into your physical body,
you see your cosmic body,

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the air, the water, the heat, the soil,

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and you are made of stars.

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We know very well that 
without the sunshine,

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there would be no life on Earth.

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So you are made of sunshine.

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And the sun is a star,

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is one of the biggest stars
in the whole galaxy,

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and that star is very close,

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and because the sun is there,
life on earth is possible.

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So you are a son of the sun,
you are a daughter of the sun,

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you can call that star "Father Sun",

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and you are a daughter of Mother Earth,

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a son of Mother Earth, 
you are made of stars.

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And you have, if you look deeply
you know that,

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this physical body is not the only body
you have,

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you still have a cosmic body.

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Suppose you contemplate a wave
that is born on the ocean,

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that wave has come from the ocean,

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and she will go home to the ocean
in order to be reborn again

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as another wave.

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So the wave has a wave body
and also an ocean body,

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and the moment when she realizes
that she has an ocean body,

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she'll lose all her fear,

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fear of birth and of death.

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Look at the clouds in the sky,

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they also come from the ocean,

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and if they meditate well enough,

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they'll see that, 
although they have a cloud body,

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they have also an ocean body.

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Is very important for the cloud
to realize that he has an ocean body,

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so when he's no longer a cloud,
he still has his ocean body.

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So the ultimate is that,

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God is the ultimate,

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nirvana is the ultimate.

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Nirvana is the true nature of reality,
the nature of no birth and no death,

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no coming and going,

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God is the ultimate, God is nirvana.

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So you have a nirvana body,
you have a God body,

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you have a cosmic body,
and if you walk deeply in mindfulness

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you can touch our cosmic body,
we can touch the ultimate,

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we touch our nature of no birth
and no death.

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So walking meditation can bring
very deep insight

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and dissipate all kind of fear.

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Is a simple practice,

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and practicing walking not only 
you can get in touch with the wonders

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of life that can be nourishing
and healing,

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but you can touch also the ultimate,
in order to be liberated

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from all fear and anxiety.