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In this episode, Benjamin Kandt talks with David Goodman about some of the elements from our Slow-Down Spirituality learning event earlier this month. David was originally going to participate as a leader and help with the teaching of the event, so this conversation is a way to recap some of the principles and practices that were shared there.

Here are some of the resources mentioned, as well as other helpful items:

• All of Life Guide
• Revisiting Our Common Rhythm: 3x Prayer
• The Due App
• Practicing the Way
• Subversive Sabbath
• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
• You Are What You Love
• The Spirit of The Disciplines

Family Guy show runner, Alec Sulkin, defends Boston, and Arthur goes through the Washington Post's regional pizza guide.  

Alec Sulkin is a Twitter legend (back when Twitter was fun). For years he was a writer for Family Guy and is now the show's show runner. He’s Executive Producer of the Ted movies and A Million Ways to Die in the West. Currently he's the co-host of the “A Typical Disgusting Display Podcast”.

Alec defends Boston pizza, talks food drama while interning at SNL, and explains how picketers eat while striking in Hollywood.

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Join Brett Martinez, Redwood Credit Union’s President & CEO, in a fun podcast featuring organizations in San Francisco and the North Bay that are making a great impact on their communities. You’ll learn a lot and come away feeling inspired and invigorated. 

This episode features David Goodman, CEO and Hunger Relief Worker of Redwood Empire Food Bank, and shares how the REFB makes a difference in people's lives and the community.

Here are some key sections in the podcast:
-"Did You Know?" (2:57) Some basics about Redwood Empire Food Bank.
-"In the Spotlight" (9:30) How Redwood Empire Food Bank handles disasters and helps people.
-"On the Horizon" (14:35) Future focus of Redwood Empire Food Bank.
-"Connection Corner" (16:16) How someone can get involved with Redwood Empire Food Bank.

Check out Redwood Empire Food Bank at refb.org for more information, or email info@refb.org to find out ways you can get involved.

These organizations are special, and it will soon be clear why we’re excited about partnering with them. If you’re inspired, like us, to get involved and help, we encourage you to do so. 

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It's just understanding that, life is tenuous. Life is hard and, sometimes people need help and it's all okay - David Goodman

Over the past two years of producing this special series, we have brought you stories from nonprofits working on some of our long-term social issues such as homelessness, housing, hygiene, and mental health.  In this one-hour-long special show, we wanted to turn our focus back to food insecurity for children families, and seniors. Since the Covid-19 pandemic breakout in March of 2020, food insecurity has increased dramatically. According to Feeding America, in the state of California, the overall food insecurity rate for 2021 was projected to be 12 percent which is four hundred and eighty-four thousand people who are food insecure on any given day. CalFresh is the California version of the old federal food stamp program and their numbers show that CalFresh recipients in San Francisco increased by 42% from November 2019 to November 2021. 

This episode is focused on the work of the Redwood Empire Food Bank which provides one of the most basic needs food, along with wraparound services to our San Francisco North Bay and Northern California community members. Our featured guests are: Chief Executive Officer, David Goodman, Director of Programs, Alison Goodwin along with food bank services, recipient and volunteer Sam Cagle, as well as Programs Coordinator, Juana Renovato. To make a donation, volunteer, and support the work of the Redwood Empire Food Bank please go to R E F B dot org

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It dawns on you that you are sitting in the cinema, just witnessing, no idea what is coming next zero.  At some point there becomes an absolute disinterest in mind, that you will get up and walk out of the cinema into light.  What we have been taking to be our life is only what has been projected onto the screen.  What gets onto the screen is your internal world that is just happening. You are not the producer, you are an actor, you are not the director, just passively observing  thoughts happen, a cloud floats by, trees bend in the wind, a dog barks.  

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This is about coming to see the False.  The self enquiry is about Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I. We assume there is a personal person here.  Its an assumption because when we challenge it, it falls to pieces.   If you are the thinker, you should be able to stop thinking!  All we need to see is the process of this seeming duality.  In the seeing of it, it collapses.  Its profound, just the way it is.   

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The Idea of a me being here, being a thinker, having free will, being a lonely separated self, collapses.  When it fully dawns on you that there is no personal me here, then there is no one else out there either.   The lights are definitely on but there is no one home.  There is aliveness, there is being here. Just stop taking that to be mine, because its not.  What is it that is dividing everything?   Why be interested in that world that gets created by thoughts when you have got this now, and its always now.  What is the big attractions to living in the head, why the big interest?  Its a dream you dont even have any control over.  Stand up and get out of the cinema, its a bad movie.

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“I feel anxious, depressed, agitated.”. Not True.  The narrator or mind can’t actually experience anything so whatever it is saying is false, it's just a story, it's made up.  It literally can't experience anything.  With the absence of all the ME thoughts, it's peaceful.  Everything is brand new and fresh, all the time.   Life no longer goes through the filter of the mind. It is no longer making up a story about stuff.  The more conscious you become of what you are not, the more conscious you become.

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It’s just a story playing out.  You are not the author, you are not the producer.  Have you had Enough of the enquiring mind, have you had enough of the questions, have you had enough of trying to understand, trying to get this.  Eventually the mind or thinking becomes redundant and there is an absolute knowing of that fact.  The story is not personal, it might as well be about someone else because it’s got nothing to do with you, zero. 

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It all arises as thoughts.  That that you are, can absolutely know what you are not, but that that you are not doesnt have a chance to know what you are.  Why, its not alive, its not conscious, its not being.  It all arises as thoughts.  A thought will say, I am the thinker, if that is so, then stop it!    There is a whole inner world, and everyone is seemingly living in their own personal little world that is all being produced by thoughts.  You can be lost in this inner world, scared, alone, nobody loves me.  Do you want to live there, or do you want to live here.  

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If it is not conscious, what is it basing your whole back story on.  For experiencing to occur, you have to be conscious.  Is a story, an actual experience?  The only way the dualistic process can work is for the mind to take the story about the experience, to be the experience.  The me is a story too.  The true self is here or the beingness, the consciousness, the awareness, it can’t be anywhere else.  We are not interested in a story, what has a story got to do with this here.  We need to come to see the mechanism of how the me seems to come into being.  

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In the complete absence of mind, duality ceases.  Without mind, would the seeing stop, the tasting, the touching, the smelling?  Would consciousness disappear, would awareness disappear, would beingness stop, if mind stopped?  It helps if you can come to see that you are not the seeker.  You can be aware of the seeking and how that is manifesting, because it is just a thought that arises and says I am confused or  I want to find this thing called non duality.

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The Me Arises as Thoughts.  On an intellectual level, we can see the me arises as thoughts.  What we are looking for is this sense of being, but in the absence of the me-ing. The me can’t experience being, it cant experience seeing, hearing, tasting, touching smelling. Its not conscious, its not aware. Then mind steps in and claims to be aware, conscious, seeing, hearing etc.  We miss what is actually happening, until we dont. The mind is the most amazing, the most incredible instrument 

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Only mind says there has to be something here that is experiencing. Only mind says I am this beingness, I am this awareness. Dive into the beingness until duality disappears and the mind will shut down, and you will be resting in your true nature.  As soon as the attention shifts to “what’s this?” the mind just goes.  That that fuels mind is attention.  In the absence of attention its like it doesn't exist.  It shifts from only being aware of the content of the mind to ”what’s this”  It becomes direct. Now the enquiry is starting.

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Its natural inclination is peace, quiet, stillness, non separation, non dualistic and at its core a love to be, or happy to be.  That becomes self evident.  There is no person there that is having the thoughts or being affected by those thoughts. The thoughts are just happening.  Zero.  What is it that believes the me story is the story itself.  The story is believing itself.  The story is made up of nothing but concepts. A thought cant experience another thought, yet a thought might arise saying, can I experience another thought?  You are the pure witnessing of it.  That is why we need to go looking for the me, what is it?  Prior to looking, we just assume there is a me here.  

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Can you observe a personal me?  You can't describe or see what you actually are, your true nature, because you are it.  To see it you would have to be able to separate yourself out from your true nature to be able to look at your true nature.  That, that we are looking for, is already looking.  It has just been taken to be a personal separate isolated lonely little self rowing through the universe in its own little boat all by itself, experiencing lack.  It's a story of the mind only. That, that is aware of the mind, and its seeming agitation, is it agitated?  No.  It's still, its at peace 

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 As a seeming person we believe we are conscious.    But we call this point of consciousness me, and its not.  We are conscious of everything except this seeming point of  consciousness, what’s that?  When we get onto the non dual path, the idea of a me has got to be unraveled, so we come to see its not a me being conscious of, however there is consciousness.  What is this, our whole life we believe its me that's conscious.  Me is just an idea, thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, all thoughts.

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All there is, ultimately, is just this, and this is just happening. No cause, no effect, no reasons why, just is!  Seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling, they do not comment on anything.  They are not dual.  What makes anything dualistic, is the moment the mind steps in.  Duality is a mind construct or concept only. There is no one doing anything, there is nothing to work out, there is nothing to gain.  In the immediacy of right here, all is well.

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They fall under the illusion of time, me and other. There’s no such thing as a relationship. This also falls under the category of time. Let go of the story in your mind. The beingness here and the beingness there, it’s the same Beingness.  It’s the mind that sets up a person here and a person over there, so the relationship that is going on, is all in the personal mind.

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The reason as human beings that we hang on to the concept or idea of a God is only because we believe we are separate.  If God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscience where do you exist?  Outside of that?  As young children, we develop a seeming sense of a separate self which too is a concept. The I am is always there, even when overlaid with thoughts, language that are all symbolic.

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