Greetings Beloved Friends,
May you enjoy the loving-compassion meditation this week.
The Way Out of Suffering is Through
An often heard slogan in meditation circles is “The way out of suffering is through.” This slogan points to the fact that while we fear, resist, and fight unpleasant emotions and sensations (the delusion of aversion), we will not be able to skillfully hold them with a peaceful and relaxed body, an open and loving heart, and a balanced, objective mind.
Aversion to unpleasant sensations arises from the stories in our mind that we believe. “I feel like my heart is breaking!” “I can’t feel this sensation, it’s too intense!” “I must be dying!” Stories like these, when believed, amplify and intensify unpleasant sensations. Be on the lookout for the stories you tell yourself about the sensations you feel, so you can mindfully remember That’s Just a Thought, and let it go.
That’s Just a Thought
That’s Just a Thought is an agape arsenal technique where you remember that a thought is a conditioned, impersonal, temporary arising that is little more than nothing. Do you really want something so insubstantial to cause you needless suffering? If not, then don’t see the thought as truthful, real, substantial, or personal. Let it dissolve back into the nothingness from where it came, and put your awareness in your senses to sense what is true in this moment directly.
Loving-compassion meditation retrains us to be interested, curious, and open to experiencing unpleasant emotions and sensations. When we hold unpleasant sensations mindfully, without aversion, we find these unpleasant sensations to be surrounded by a sense of peace and sometimes even joy. The way out of suffering is through, indeed!
Thus, may you love yourself enough to be intimate with your suffering! Loving-compassion meditation helps you be intimate with your suffering during meditation, and The FEEL Technique will help you do this during your daily life.
The FEEL Technique
Because I asked you all to work with The FEEL Technique each day, I intended to get this email to you quickly. However, I have had computer problems, so please forgive me for taking so long to get this to you.
We have spent a lot of time going over how to contemplate your thoughts. The FEEL Technique helps you address your emotions. It allows you to skillfully get intimate and investigate emotions and other sensations, be they strong or subtle.
Instructions on how to do The FEEL Technique are in the transcript of the "Truth, Love, & Service" talk below. Review it as many times as you need to. May you be wildly successful at incorporating this agape arsenal method into your daily life. It will serve you well.
New Frequently Asked Question Posted
One of you asked, “Can there never be a true thought?” on your evaluation form and my answer is below. Spoiler alert: There can never be a true thought. Does that seem far fetched? Then read my full answer to unpack what I mean by that.
When you deeply understand that their can never be a true thought, you will make giant gains in your ability to live connected to your inner peace.
Next Class
Our next class is Tuesday, August 7th at 6:30 PM at the Wescott Library, 1340 Wescott Road, Eagan MN 55123. At it we will do a loving-joy meditation and hear a talk called The Power of Skillfulness. Hope to see you all there.
May you have boundless compassion for yourself and all life,
Freeman
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New FAQ: Can There Never Be a True Thought?
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Can there never be a true thought?
Correct. Some thoughts may helpfully point to something true, but the thoughts themselves are not the truth.
As an analogy, we could ask, “Can there never be a true picture of lentil soup?” Well their can be a true picture of lentil soup. But if you are hungry, you cannot eat the picture. Even if you try, it will not nourish you. Just like with thoughts, a picture represents something else, but it is not the actual thing.
The distinction between the words we use, and the reality that the words point to, may seem very small and insignificant. Yet this subtle distinction, when not clearly seen, has very serious consequences for our psychological, emotional, and social wellbeing. Read more… If that link does not work, try this one.
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Missed a Class? Need to Review a Talk?
You're in Luck!
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All Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Fundamentals Course Conveniently Located on One Web Page for You!
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Are you wondering where to access all the guided meditations we use for this class?
They can all be found on the Guided Meditations page of our BoundlessLoveProject.org website. This page is found under the "Resources" tab in the menu bar found on every page of the website. Please bookmark this page for easier access.
This week, use the "Loving-Compassion - 5 min" meditation, or the "Loving-Compassion - 6 min" meditation to help you be intimate, peaceful, and calm with unpleasant sensations.
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You're Invited! Volunteer with Boundless Love Project Supporters to Help Feed the Hungry
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We volunteer on the second Monday of every month at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan. Our next session is Monday, August 13, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM at their location in Eagan. To get there you take 35E to Lone Oak Road and head east a few blocks. Their address is 990 Lone Oak Road, unit 136.
Please register if you plan on attending. Visit our events page for details and registration info.
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How to Stream or Download Audio Files on Our Website
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Find audio files of talks and meditations in our blog posts. The audio files look like the black bar seen above. (Please note this bar is just an image and not a working audio file.) To listen, press the white triangle or "play button" on the left to stream the talk.
The text is the title of the talk or guided meditation. For our example, this audio file is from a group meditation and the talk was titled "From Ego to Enlightened & Compassion Summary."
On the left, you find the word "download." Press it to download the talk to your computer or media player. If you are viewing this from your phone, you may not see the download option if you hold it vertically. Rotate your phone horizontally in order to see the “download” option. Once you have downloaded the file, listen to it using one of your media playing programs.
If you have any difficulties, please let me know. I want you to be successful!
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Mindfulness Fundamentals Remaining Class Syllabus
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Tues, Aug 7, 6:30-8:00 PM at Wescott Library (Conference room)
1340 Wescott Road, Eagan MN 55123
Topic: The Power of Skillfulness • Loving-joy meditation
Tues, Aug 14, 6:30-8:00 PM at Wescott Library (Conference room)
1340 Wescott Road, Eagan MN 55123
Topic: The Power of Generosity and Purpose • Sensation with a focus on energy meditation
Tues, Aug 21, 6:30-8:00 PM at Heritage Library (Large conference room)
20085 Heritage Drive, Lakeville, MN 55044
Topic: Where to Go from Here? • Silent meditation
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Class Nine Talk: Truth, Love, & Service: Living in Alignment with Universal Law
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Stay Strong and Resolute
We have now been attending class for two months. Congratulations! A three month-long class is pretty wonderful because it is long enough that there will be ups and downs in your life. For example, you may be having ups and downs with your meditation practice. Initially, some of you had a honeymoon phase with the practice. You were doing something skillfull to benefit your life, you saw improvements, you had hope, and it made you feel wonderful.
However, maybe those stories of hope and expected progress that you had no longer match your life situation, and this is making your sad and confused, or less excited about the practice. Maybe a new story has arisen that meditating is work, drudgery, a chore, or maybe it’s a luxury that you don’t have time for.
If such a story is being played, be mindful of it. Notice how this story makes you feel, and then notice how it is the delusion of self-view or selfing. It is a story the mind is telling about how you relate to your meditation practice. You know it is delusional because when you believe it, you suffer sadness, frustration, despair, or other emotions. You know its delusional because it mistakes something that is very skillful, meditating for the benefit and welfare of all beings, to be something that is meaningless or harmful. This story defines meditation to be a useless waste of time, too difficult to do correctly, or a desirable goal, yet not the right time for it.
The ego in us is very wily and tricky. When the ego sees how your meditation practice threatens it, the ego, like a cornered animal, will fight for its survival. The ego will generate stories and reasons for you to stop your meditation and mindfulness practices. Be mindful of these stories and reasons. See them for what they are: impersonal, temporary, and conditioned thoughts that have no power over you unless you believe them. Experience how these stories feel in the body when believed. Notice if these stories inspire you to do skillful or unskillful actions. Then, use the information you gathered from your investigations to live a peaceful, calm, and joyful life in the present moment.
Stay strong in your commitment to show up to class each week and meditate every day. These commitments will serve you well. These commitments will help you ride these cycles of hope and doubt and allow you to see how both are illusions based on the competing and conflicting stories in your mind. Hope feels great. Doubt feels awful. But both contribute to your misery.
The story of hope feels wonderful, but it is a set up. It creates high expectations that we delusionally cling to. Then, when those expectations are not met, we suffer grief, sadness, and despair. The story of doubt feels scary, frightening, and sad. Use your mindfulness to see how these stories of self-view keep us in a perpetual cycle of ups and downs.
The same goes for all other cycles of ups and downs in your life. What story are you telling yourself about your life situation? Is it a calm, healthy, honest story that contributes to your welfare? Even more importantly, are you seeing this story as a mere story in the mind so that you hold it gently, loosely, in a flexible manner knowing that it is not the real truth because stories are never the full truth? Or is it dramatic, unhealthy, delusional story that you cling to with a firm, tight, inflexible grip, that causes you to suffer tremendously?
I applaud you for your persistence and resolve in maintaining your commitments to come to class and meditate. Meditation and mindfulness will give you the skills you need to be mindful of the thoughts in your head and not take them personally, nor cling to them as the truth. Through this, you will find peace, freedom, love, and joy you so deeply long for and deserve to experience.
Let meditation be your shelter from the storm, where you can find peace and comfort in your day. Let meditation refresh and restore you and prepare you to meet the challenges of the day with grace and skillfulness. Let our time together each week recharge, rejuvenate, and inspire your daily meditation and mindfulness practices for the coming week. Together, we can ride these storms together and come out the other side wiser, stronger, and more loving, happy, and skillful.
Talk Overview
In tonight’s talk, I want to review what we have been learning through the frame of three principles: truth, love, and service. So far, we have spoken primarily about truth and love, but going forward we will be focusing on service. To start our discussion on service, you will then learn The FEEL Technique to help you cultivate and connect with your inner compassion. Let’s begin.
Class Framework
There are three main themes for this class: Truth, Love, and Service. The principles of truth, love, and service help you live in accordance with universal laws to help you stop suffering and be happy.
The first universal law is when we are ensnared by delusion, we suffer. Thus, the principle of truth arises. To be free of delusion, we must live in the present moment, prioritizing the direct experience of our senses over the thoughts and stories of the mind.
The second universal law is when we are ensnared by judgment, hatred, cruelty, or ill will towards ourselves, others, or a situation, we suffer. Thus, the principle of love arises. We do the work of letting go false stories and beliefs so as to live with an attitude of love, compassion, and appreciation for all life and situations.
The third universal law is that all life is mutually interdependent with each other. We are all one. Thus, the principle of service arises. To serve others, we must first do no harm by living in a way that allows all life to thrive. Every time we have talked about being skillful, we essentially talked about serving others by not harming them. All of us have been harmed by others, and so we all know that freedom from harm is a great blessing, gift, and service that others can offer us.
In addition to harmlessness, service has another aspect. You see each one of us has a unique and specific role to play in this life. If we want true joy, we must use our skills, talents, knowledge, and abilities to enrich and benefit the lives of others.
Let’s summarize what we have learned about Truth and Love and then give a preview of what we will be learning about Service.
Truth
In our exploration of truth, we have defined truth as what is left when there is no believed falsehood in the mind. In an effort to see these falsehoods, we have learned six delusions that frequently trip us up, confuse us, and cause us to suffer: pasting and futuring, craving and aversion, fixed-view and self-view.
Pasting and futuring are stories in the mind about the past, future, or fantasy that cause us to suffer needlessly in the now. Craving and aversion are stories in the mind that cause us to fight the reality of what is. The story of craving tells us that to be happy and peaceful, we need something other than what is present here and now. The story of aversion tells us that the present moment is wrong, unacceptable, and intolerable. The stories of both craving and aversion simply tell us why we must be miserable now. Fixed-view is mistaking any story in the mind to be true, when thoughts are never the truth. Self-view is mistaking the story we tell ourselves about who we are, what we want and need, and how we relate to everything else as true. Self-view clings to everything as me and mine, and suffering follows.
All of these delusions are based on stories in the mind. These stories are taken to be more personal, truthful, and permanent than they are. Through meditation, mindfulness, and contemplation we have been learning to see how these stories cause suffering in our own life.
Wisdom teacher Byron Katie suffered from depression, rage, and suicidal thoughts for nearly a decade until she had a realization that changed everything: “I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.”
Katie teaches a simple yet profound contemplative practice, which she calls “The Work” where you identify and question your thoughts to see the falsehood in them. She offers these teachings freely at her website, TheWork.com.
Love
We have also been walking the path of love. We lovingly dedicate our meditations and our time together to the benefit and welfare of all life. We practice love-based meditations that help us know the subtle experience of love, or that help us see how the delusions get in the way of our inner love. As we meditate, we meditate with patience, kindness, and compassion towards ourselves.
During this class we have helped to define the four kinds of love:
Kindness is the love that cherishes, and wishes the wellbeing of others.
Peace is the love that allows, and it responds to situations skillfully.
Compassion is the love that is intimate with the unpleasant, and it takes action to alleviate suffering.
Joy is the love that is intimate with pleasure, and it celebrates the success and joy of ourselves and others.
We then started by making a firm resolution to love ourselves no matter what. Through this practice we start to experientially understand what love is and what love isn’t. We start to understand that when I love myself, I don’t need to look for love elsewhere, externally from myself. When I love myself, I am at peace when people insult me or think badly about me. When I love myself, I find I have more love than I need and I can share my love with all who I encounter.
Experiencing the beauty an power of love, we then work to purify our intentions to ensure that the motivation behind all of our thoughts, words and deeds come from love rather than the delusions of hatred, greed, and cruelty.
In this way we walk the path of love, and this leads us naturally to service.
Service
Although every time we talk about being skillful, we are talking about service, the coming talks will help us flesh out this principle. We will talk about how doing no harm is a great gift and service to all life. The moral codes of wisdom traditions exist to help us do no harm. Moral codes also serve us by helping to alert us when we are lost in delusion. Unfortunately, moral codes have also been co-opted by the ego to judge, punish, and persecute others, which is why we will also talk about how not to use moral codes
As part of discussion service, we will also discuss the quality of generosity. How giving of our inner wealth helps us feel abundant, whole, and happy and puts the delusions of greed and fear on the run. We will also discuss how generosity helps us find our unique purpose and calling.
Compassion and Service Go Hand in Hand
Of course, the love of compassion is vital to all talks about service. While delusion reigns over humanity, it is not hard to find suffering wherever we look. Both service and compassion calls us to alleviate the suffering of others. As was mentioned earlier, compassion is willing to be intimate with suffering; our own, and other being’s. This intimacy inspires us to help those who suffer.
A great way to learn how to be compassionate for others, is to learn how to be compassionate with ourselves. The agape arsenal method called the The FEEL Technique helps us learn how to be compassionate with ourselves.
The FEEL Technique
We have spent a lot of time going over how to contemplate your thoughts. The FEEL Technique helps you address your emotions. It helps you skillfully get intimate with and investigate emotions and other sensations, be they strong or subtle.
An often heard slogan in meditation circles is “The way out of suffering is through.” This slogan points to the fact that while we fear, resist, and fight unpleasant emotions and sensations (which is the delusion of aversion), we will not be able to skillfully hold these sensations with a peaceful and relaxed body, an open and loving heart, and a balanced, objective mind. When we can hold unpleasant sensations in this way, that is compassion, and compassion feels quite pleasant, powerful, and profound.
Aversion to unpleasant sensations arises from the stories in our mind that we believe. “I feel like my heart is breaking!” “I can’t feel this sensation, it’s too intense!” “I must be dying!” Stories like these, when believed, amplify and intensify unpleasant sensations. Be on the lookout for the stories you tell yourself about the sensations you feel, so you can mindfully remember That’s Just a Thought, and let it go.
The FEEL Technique beautifully allows us to bypass our thinking, avoid getting tangled up in the mental story, and simply allow the sensations to be sensations. When we do this, we discover that unpleasant sensations can be held while we remain peaceful and calm.
It seems paradoxical, but if we want to live from a deep, unshakeable peace, freedom, and joy, then we must be willing to calmly feel unpleasant sensations. The more we use The FEEL Technique on our unpleasant emotions and sensations, the less power they have over us, and the more we connect with our inner wellspring of compassion.
Use this technique in the following situations:
1. When an emotion or sensation is very strong, powerful, and charged.
2. When an emotion or sensation is very subtle, but compels you to engage in unskillful behavior.
3. When an emotion is present, signaling that you are lost in delusion, but no thoughts are apparent because they are operating on an unconscious level.
The FEEL Techniques works like this:
1. Feel the emotion. Put all of your awareness into feeling the emotion directly with your senses. Remember that no one has ever died from feeling their emotions, while many have died in vain attempts to run away from them. Therefore with as much kindness, courage, and compassion, feel the emotion, no matter how unpleasant or intense it is.
2. Establish the impersonal and impermanent nature of the sensation. If it is an emotion, establish the delusional nature of it too. Remember that all sensations arise and pass away. They are not forever. Remember also that these sensations are not you. You may at times have some influence over them, but you do not control them. They are just another object that your awareness can know. Don’t take them personally. These recollections will help keep your mind calm, peaceful, and balanced as you allow your senses to relax and open to feeling the unpleasant feelings.
If you are experiencing an unpleasant emotions, remember that all emotions arise from delusions. (Love, peace, compassion, joy, and kindness are not emotions. Because they are your inherent nature, it is better to think of them as states of being.) Both emotions and the delusional thoughts which they arise from, are temporary visitors to the mind. Because thoughts are conditioned and impersonal, emotions are also conditioned and impersonal. Do not mistake any emotion or sensation to be more truthful, permanent, or personal than they are. When you understand they are impersonal (Not me. Not mine.), impermanent (This too will pass.), and delusional, you will be more empowered to be intimate with them.
3. Exclude thinking. Because unpleasant sensations typically trigger the arising of delusional thoughts, and delusional thoughts trigger the arising of unpleasant sensations, it is easy to get caught in a suffering spiral. Shut down this feedback loop by excluding your thinking. You can do this in several ways:
A. Assume all thoughts are delusional and pay them no heed. Just as we do during mindfulness meditation, when a thought arises, kindly label them “thinking,” and then with as much compassion as possible return your full awareness to feeling the emotion. Don’t get entangled in the thoughts. Don’t believe them or cling to them. Just keep ignoring them.
B. Focus all of your awareness on feeling the emotion directly. Feeling strong emotions directly often requires all of your energy and focus. We often have very strong conditioned habit patterns to attempt to “run away from” or indulge in sense gratification as a way to mask or hide unpleasant feelings. Because it is so challenging, it may require all of your energy to put your awareness in your senses and feel the feeling directly. This will take up the energy required to generate thoughts.
C. Have a calm, quiet mind. Do some breath meditation to quiet and calm the mind. This may not work for strong emotions because the habit pattern of the ego is to generate a lot of delusional stories when a deeply disturbing emotion arises. However, it is very good for more subtle sensations like hunger, tiredness, restlessness, and so on that trigger delusional stories that compel us to act unskillfully because of these very subtle sensations.
4. Love and accept the feeling.
With love and compassion we allow the feeling to be. We do not do this technique to “get rid of” the feeling. That would be the delusion of aversion. Instead, we feel the feeling while relaxing and calming the body as much as possible. It helps to see ask, what can I appreciate about this sensation? One thing we can appreciate about all of them, is that they all help us be mindful and awaken from our misery. As we befriend these sensations, and hold them peacefully, they have less power to cause the ego to take us over and act out unskillfully.
Continue to do these four steps for as long as it takes. Notice how the sensations changes, growing in intensity at times, fading away at other times, or moving to different areas of the body. Continue to do The FEEL Technique until the emotion goes away on its own, or until there is enough balance in the mind to skillfully go about your business.
If a situation arises where The FEEL Technique is called for while you are with other people, it is helpful to excuse yourself, and go somewhere by yourself to focus on doing this technique. If there is nowhere to go, say something like, “I’ve been triggered and need to meditate for some time. Thanks for understanding.” Then just close your eyes and do it.
Use the acronym FEEL to remind you of the four steps:
1. Feel the emotion.
2. Establish the impersonal, temporary, and delusional nature of the sensation.
3. Exclude all thinking.
4. Love and accept the sensation.
Use The FEEL Technique to develop your self-compassion during daily life, and the guided compassion meditation to develop your compassion while meditating. They both will help and support each other to enable you to be intimate and calm with any and all feelings that arise.
Mindfulness Mission
Let’s now discuss your mindfulness mission for the coming week.
1. First, continue your daily meditation practice. This week you will use the guided loving-compassion meditation that can be found on the Guided Meditation page at BoundlessLoveProject.org.
Several of you have done a wonderful job of meditating 5 to 7 days a week for the past month or two. For those of you who regularly meditate 5 or more days a week, I invite you to increase your daily meditation practice by one minute a week. So this week, do the 6-minute loving compassion meditation and see how that goes for you.
For those of you who are still struggling to consistently meditate 5 or more days a week, stick with the 5-minute loving-compassion meditation. Really make it a priority in your life to get this meditation in each and every day. If you don’t do the work, you can’t get the benefits. Do the work and be successful.
You are invited to self-select which meditation you choose to do.
2. Review your slogans daily and use them to set healthy intentions for the day. Be sure to review the “May I love myself no matter what” slogan daily. When you review it, set the strong intention to treat yourself only with love, kindness, and compassion during the entire day. This means you will not believe or take to be true any cruel or judgmental thoughts directed at yourself. Instead you will talk to yourself as a kind and loving friend.
Now, also set the intention to use The FEEL Technique on any strong, or compelling emotions that arise in you.
Continue to also use the agape arsenal techniques of Be the Watcher to let go of selfing and enter the flow state while doing an activity, Mental Jiu-Jitsu to dissect, contemplate, and replace disturbing thoughts, and Live from Your True Self to help you connect with your inner love, abundance, and well-being.
3. As an act of self-love, continue to be mindful of self-view. Continue to patiently notice how the story of who you are impacts your wellbeing. If it causes you to suffer, do you really want to continue to cling to (or believe) that story? Contemplate who you would be without that story. If you like that person more, then see the lie in the story and as Queen Elsa says, “let it go!”
4. Try to use The FEEL Technique daily. When you review your “May I love myself no matter what” slogan, remember that one way to love yourself is to be intimate with any unpleasant sensations that arise.
Then spend 20 seconds practicing The FEEL Technique, even if you don’t currently feel anything strong or tumultuous. Feel what you feel. The pressure of your feet against the floor, or any aches and pains, or sense of thirst, hunger, tiredness, excitement, vibrations, or tingling. Put your awareness in your bodily sensations. Next, Establish these sensation’s impermanent and impersonal nature. If it is an emotion, remember it has a delusional nature too. Exclude thinking by either ignoring your thoughts, by putting all of your attention into feeling the feeling, or by doing some breath meditation. Then Love, accept, and appreciate those sensations. Contemplate why these sensations are good and worthy.
By practicing the technique like this, you get familiar with it so you know how to do it. This morning rehearsal also primes yourself to remember to do it during your day when you need it.
Take a few more seconds to consider your plans for the day, and what emotions are likely to arise. Then set an intention to do The FEEL Technique on those emotions when they arise. This will further increase your chances to use The Feel Technique during your day.
If you worry you won’t be able to remember how to do it, then write some short notes on a small scrap of paper that you carry in your pocket. You can pull it out and use it as a guide when the time comes to do it.
Talk Summary
Tonight, was a review of what we have been talking about for the past few months. We reframed all that we have covered into the three principles of truth, love, and service.
In our review of truth, we covered the six delusions that help us see how all of the thoughts in our heads, when mistaken to be the truth, actually become falsehoods that cause us to emotionally suffer and act unskillfully. The more we see this, the more we stop investing too much importance in our thoughts, the more a higher wisdom arises from beyond thoughts, and the more happy and peaceful we become.
In our review of love, we covered the four kinds of love: kindness, peace, compassion, and joy. When our mind is free of active delusion, we rest in one of these beautiful, often quite subtle, states of being. When we rest in these states we know our inner worth and feel a sense of wellbeing and wholeness. The more we stop investing too much importance in our thoughts, the more we are able to connect with our inner love.
In our preview of service, we talked about the importance of doing no harm so that all life can thrive, and finding your unique calling which will allow you to use your talents to serve and benefit others. We also talked about how vital compassion is in allowing us to confront and alleviate the suffering of others.
To help you connect with your compassion with introduced The FEEL Technique. When an emotional disturbance arises, it guides you to Feel the emotion, Establish the delusional, impersonal, temporary nature of the emotion, Exclude all thinking, and Love and accept the feeling until the emotion goes away, or you are calm and grounded enough to be skillful.
These principles of truth, love, and service arise from universal laws. When you live outside of these universal laws, you suffer in misery. How amazing and wonderful is it that these universal laws encourage us to live in truth, to live with love for all life, and to live in service to all life? Even the suffering we endure exists to help us find our way home to truth, love, and service.
When we see these laws in action in our own lives and the lives of others, we can appreciate the fact that we live in a benevolent, loving universe. It is only our delusion that distorts our ability to see this truth. In truth, life is more loving and benevolent than we can possibly know. I say it again: Life is more loving and benevolent than we can possibly know.
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