I don’t like calling them exercises, because that sounds too mechanical only do these loving contemplations of your experience when that seems to you the most interesting and enjoyable thing you could possibly be doing at that moment, so you do it in the same way that You look out here across the fields and you think, oh it’s so inviting I just love to go for a walk and you go for that reason. Just it’s, just the thing you’d want to be doing more than anything else. At that moment, the most interesting, the most enjoyable – that’s when to do these loving contemplations when nothing interests you more in that moment than exploring the reality of your experience. What is all we know is experience. I mean isn’t that the most extraordinary Millett miracle – that there is experience I mean walking on water – just pales into insignificance next to the fact that that is experience Wow, I mean isn’t that incredible and that experience is made of something yeah. It’s made of something. What is it made of that it can take the shape of all this. It can take the shape of this incredible diversity, and yet it’s all the same stuff called knowing or experiencing. What could that stuff be? What could be more interesting, interesting than the knowing what that stuff is? Our culture tells us that it’s made out of dead stuff called matter, and that matter gives rise to mind and mind gives rise to conch business. Does experience is the stuff out of which experience is made dead and in that that doesn’t quite make sense, because if that was true, then experience would be essentially dead and inert, but it’s. Not all experience is pervaded by the knowing of it. It is aware and alive everything we never come in contact with anything other than this totally alive. Stuff called experience and it never goes away it doesn’t start or stop. It stays the same. It’s never changing, but ever changing. What is this stuff? So when you feel that kind of interest in experience then follow it, if you find something more interesting to do than that, then do it like going to the cinema or it’s. Fine, we’ll do whatever is the most interesting thing for you at that moment. The most enjoyable interesting thing I mean spiritual life should be just. It should be like going to the best party you can imagine it should be the most enjoyable. The most interesting thing to do, and the beauty of it is that the you don’t have to put it aside a particular time or a particular place to do it. You can do it while you’re having lunch when you’re walking down the street when you’re, brushing your teeth. When you’re sitting on your chair, doing nothing, you can explore this all the time to make a practice out of it. To make a discipline out of it is, is blasphemous. Well, you know, is it it’s, it’s, so disrespectful to think that we could in turn this investigation, this exploration of our experience into a practice or a discipline. It’s, it’s, so disrespectful. I guess it comes to my mind that it feels so good when I do it that it just made sense to me to do it when I feel suffering. You know just in order to EULA keep life simple Jeremy, just do it when you feel like doing it when you’re suffering, when you’re happy when you’re in between somewhere just do it whenever you feel this is what I love to Do you don’t don’t, do it as a practice when you’re suffering in order to get rid of suffering don’t, do it for a reason just do it, because it is the most interesting thing to do for its own sake. Like, like a mad scientist studying the stuff that a particular rare species of butterflies studying a butterfly’s wing, a rare butterfly, what its wing is made out of, why it’s that fluorescent green, I mean what a crazy thing to do, but people spend Their lives doing this, it’s so beautiful just for the joy of of discovery, just it’s, not for any reason. What, when you’re and that’s, how an artist works in a sports person in the moment, they are just dancing for no reason whether that dance takes on the form of scientific exploration or creativity or whatever it is it doesn,’t matter. Just do it for no reason for no not in order to gain something at the end, just because it’s the most enjoyable most interesting thing you could do at that moment. Could every have you finished since then him? It’s just a little disappointing because I mean cuz honestly I mean uh yeah. I do feel suffering a lot less, but that happened to be the most prevalent. You know part of my daily life, and so I did want to get rid of it and okay. I wanted to use everything I could to do it so, but but but that does seem to be the promise of where this is all heading. Okay, but just just very slightly change the parameters instead of doing this in order to get rid of suffering, do it to understand suffering, yeah yeah yeah that so it’s, just you,’re still studying the same thing. You’re still exploring the same thing, changing the mindset that way, but you’re just doing it you, this phenomena is appearing called suffering. This rare this strange species of butterfly has appeared and you’re fascinated by it. Oh, you know: how do you eat? How do you reproduce? How do you go around your life? You want to study all of its habits and and but you have to be very, very careful with the butterfly it’s very. Does you don’t want to touch it? You touch it and you’re going to destroy it because it’s. So so so you just observe it. Don’t touch it. Don’t get busy trying to change the butterfly you just you.’re studying it under all sorts of different. You study it in the daytime in the night when it’s made so around when they’re, not what it eats. What it goes towards you, you’re just interested in this phenomenon. Let’s see suffering just like a phenomenon after it is a phenomenon just explore it be interested in it. Don’t go to war with it because you don’t the suffering is already made out of resistance. By going to war with it. You are just resisting it. You are piling one resistance on top of an already existing resistance. You’re compounding the problem compounding the suffering by trying to get rid of it and that’s. Why, as we all know very well all the conventional means of getting rid of suffering don’t work they just at best temporarily alleviated, but subtly perpetuated so take your hands off suffering, explore it out of interest. What are you made of yeah? So it’s, fine, when you find yourself suffering, you think. Okay, great hear hear this. This classifies appeared again. I’m going to explore it, explore it to the level of the mind and explore it to the level of the body, both really think and feel. I want to understand this phenomenon that takes place support. It appears so often in my life seems like it.’s related to these perceptual investigations. And yes, it is you’re, like wow. When the suffering is occurring. It tends to be that there’s this kind of contract, absolute aspect and when we’re doing that breathing exercise, you realize wow. It’s, yes, exert infinite and that’s what these these contemplations, like the contemplation we did this morning, is just studying one of the butterfly’s legs. Just one party, you know. Yesterday we studied another leg or another wing. It’s. Just all studying this whole phenomenon sort of in this case the sense of separation, so puts it in perspective, but I can see why, if you purchased that exercise with the desire to get rid of something, then it would be counterproductive yet suffering. The only thing suffering cannot stand is being seen clearly. The reason for that is that at the root of suffering is an illusion. You can’t do anything to allude to an illusion, because there’s nothing there, you can’t do anything to the water in a mirror eyes. You can’t go and collect it. You can’t purify it. You can’t drink. It you can’t, you can’t do anything to it because it’s not there. The very best you can do is to go up to it and see that it’s not there that seeing relieves the desire to manage it or collect it or to so it’s like that with suffering at the heart of suffering. There is an illusion and non existent self. You can’t do anything to a non existent self. There is nothing there to do anything to seeing, which means experiential understanding clear, seeing is the best you can do and as a result, as a byproduct of that clear, seeing this suffering vanishes dissolves in time, because it in order to remain present suffering needs the illusion Of a separate self, it revolves around the illusion of a separate self. If that is truly seen to be non existent, the suffering simply cannot stand. There may be old habits in the body mind that run for some time, but those because they are no longer supported by the belief and feeling of a separate self. These old habits gradually dissipate so suffering vanishes as a byproduct of this exploration, not as its goal suffering vanishes in the same way that a headache vanishes you wake up in the morning with a headache you get to the evening, and you realize oh, my headaches gone. I don’t know when it went. I don’t know where I was when he went. I don’t know why it went. I don’t know how it went. It’s. Just you just notice. Oh, it’s, just not there anymore, that’s. How suffering disappears it’s a by product, not a goal. Its disappearance is a by product, not a goal. If you make it your goal, you perpetuate suffering. In fact, this is one of the ways the separate self perpetuates itself sometimes for decades. By trying to get rid of itself. Just feels like leaves me in a position of you, learn all these things and it seems, like you,’ll, be a nice idea to repeat them to explore them better, but truly it’s like the suffering. That reminds me that I want to practice them, but if it’s counterproductive to apply them, consider the suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body. Yeah, you put your hand in the fire. If you experience pain, the pain is not a mistake. It’s not something that’s wrong. The pain. Is there it’s, the intelligence of the body telling you take your hand out of the fire yeah, so pain is working on behalf of your well being suffering is exactly the same. At the level of the mind, it is cooperating with your desire for happiness. It’s telling you you’ve, got your hand in the fire in this case it’s telling you. You have mistaken yourself for a separate, limited awareness. Take a look. Take a look that’s. What suffering so so suffering is to the mind what pain is to the body. It’s, just a wake up. Call it’s, saying you’ve, mistaken yourself for an object for a limited self. Have another look use it basically saying when you take a look at you,’re not doing it to get rid of just doing it, to see what you’re doing it in order to look at the separate self that you have mistaken yourself for in That moment you are thinking and feeling on behalf of a separate self, so you are now looking at the separate self on whose behalf you are thinking feeling and acting it’s like you, spend your life preparing jars to collect the water in a mirage. You’re suffering, tells you go and have a look in the mirror, go and have a look at this water. You are spending your entire life, organizing and planning around what you, what’s going to happen when you go up to the Mirage and see the water isn’t there. What’s going to happen to your your water jar business? You’re just going to lose interest in it. You’re just going to stop manufacturing. Yeah there’s no water there to collect you just forget it and move on so such suffering is saying: go up to the Mirage, see that there is no water there go into your experience, see that there is no separate self there and that seeing will Will take care of everything else and then, if you want you can engage, which I know you do want to. You can engage in these loving contemplations, which is a kind of cooperation with the dismantling of the water jar business. It’s a way of going up to the Mirage right. No, no, it’s, it’s, it’s. It’s post, going up to the Mirage. It’s, a post, enlightenment sadness, but enlightenment is seeing what we are. The dismantling of the water jar business is a post enlightenment sadhna, it’s what we do after the recognition of our true nature and it’s just a gentle, loving cooperation at the level of the body with what we have already understood it. It’s, we’re, just helping the body feel itself in a way that is consistent with our new understanding. Honestly, maybe I have an experience, the enlightenment. Well it in practice. Here we work on both going back to the very beginning of our of our week. Here we work on both the path of exclusion and the path of inclusion. At the same time, we rearrange all over the map, so don’t don’t worry. If this extraordinary event called enlightenment, doesn’t seem to have taken place. Remember enlightenment is not an event. It doesn’t take place. The mind is not party to it: it’s not present when this non event occurs. It knows nothing of it. So don’t worry about that. Just keep exploring what you truly are. Am i a separate, limited awareness, or is the awareness that I know myself to be totally open, unlimited and ever present, because the belief and the feeling that what I am comes and goes and is limited and therefore lacking? That is at the heart that belief and feeling that single belief and feeling is at the heart of all your suffering. That’s, the only thing in suffering that needs to be explored, not the whole paraphernalia of whatever it is, that seems to be causing the suffering, because if you explore each of the causes in turn, it’s just endless money, work relationships, I mean it Goes on forever, but it’s all all these different colors different facets of suffering. They. It all hinges on one thing: the belief that what I am the I that is knowing my thoughts and hearing these words right now. The awareness that I know myself to be shares the limits and the destiny of the body mind that’s it. That is with that belief. We seem to shrink into a separate self and all our suffering is dependent upon that and feeling alone. So once that’s clear you become very you become naturally one pointed you see that all your suffering is just based on one thing, so all your disparate energies are now gathered together in that one direction. What am i truly? You even forget about suffering, because your your you’re dealing with what’s at the heart of it. You you forget about the paraphernalia of suffering. Who is this one, this self that is suffering? Who is this one? On whose behalf I spend my life? Thinking and feeling acting and relating, I spent my life serving this self. Who is it I’ve never seen it. Where are you come out? I want to make your acquaintance. Show me what you’re made of the analogy I give you may have heard it before. Sometimes it’s of a servant who’s been living in this big old house serving an old man, all his life and the old man is extremely demanding and unreasonable and the servant. You know he’s up at five o’clock every morning. Cleaning issues making his fire doing his breakfast etc. He spends his whole life from morning tonight serving this old man, and yet he never actually sees the old man. The old man is a bit of a recluse and he lives in his bedroom and he just gets met. The old man just has a root. Sorry, the servant has a routine. He just goes through his routine um. He begins to get curious. He goes to the pub every now and then on a rare day off and his friends tell him, you know you should you should go and you know you should go and talk to the old man. You should go and see him if he’s so unreasonable. So eventually you go back and you pluck up courage. You go and knock on the door. You want to to discuss your your work with him and he doesn’t answer. You think, oh that’s, typically he just doesn’t want to talk to me, but then, the next day you pluck up courage. Again, you knock on the door. He does not. You know hang into it again to open, so you open the door and you just peek in anything, oh that’s funny. I can’t see him and then the next day you have a bit more courage. You open the door a bit more and you put your head rounded on it and you know he’s not there. So then you get a bit bolder you go in and and you look around anything odd, it’s funny he’s. Just not here you look in his bathroom, you think he must be he’s. Not there. You look in his cupboards. He’s, not there you looking to draw you, you explore the whole room and you realize this man that I’ve been serving. All my life, this tyrannical man, on whose behalf I have been laboring, it’s, not there. He was never there. The separate self is like that. We spend our lives, thinking feeling acting and relating on behalf of a self that is not there so that’s what we do here. We explore the bedroom first, the bedroom, then the bathroom then the cupboards, then the drawers we look everywhere and the more we look that the greater our confidence grows in, knowing that he’s not there. Now it doesn’t necessarily happen at one moment. Okay, now I’ve discovered that it’s not there. There is just a growing confidence day by day. It may come in one moment, but it usually doesn’t it’s just this confidence. This conviction grows in you. He’s not there and in proportion to that conviction. Your thoughts, feelings activities and relationships begin to to change accordingly, in direct proportion to your conviction that the old man is not there, you may never be able to say at that moment, I discovered he wasn’t there, it’s not necessary. Most people can’t say that I’m, not sure. If I put a question, I wanted to say something about like that meditation experience. So what I noticed I noticed is a well like, like an expansion, kind of which feels very, very freeing very liberating, but there’s just a lot of space and then, at the same time the body is going mad. It’s like a kind of site, all that all the sort of physical, our eggs are coming up even more strongly. Normally they go after about ten minutes, but it’s. It was like they were like in full in in Technicolor kind of yeah, particularly my rib cage, which I’ve been noticing more and more and more and it’s sort of sometimes feel like I,’m wearing a corset, and so that was like It was sort of almost like. I am yes at the same time, this is mist expansion, so there’s a kind of Wonder and beauty in that and at the same time, within that it’s like there’s a like, I feel a fight going on that’s. All and I recognize that the conditioning in the body I can feel I could name that as wanting to kind of win, if you like – and I’ve, never felt so clearly the cut that the meeting of those two it’s, like they’re Kind of locked – almost yes, I want you know. I come back here and also I’m feeling yeah tears of sadness. For this apparent illusion and at home, were my. I feel a kind of frustration. It’s like it’s. Almost it’s, sort of the analogy of like being in this tightly held prison, something crying you know, let me out and that’s, that’s is how it how it appears. I’m grateful for the such clarity in the the fight because it it yeah it brings more more more clarity in the in this is kind of the struggle that I experienced yet and something about there is something I can do and there’s nothing. I can do again, it feels yes, yes, if you kids at this process, if we can call it, the processes is working perfectly in you. It’s, just you. You describe this expansion and that this morning,’s meditation was just one way of approaching this expanded view of experience and when we begin to really feel and live in this expansion, all the old habits with which we used to contract into a separate self. I’ll reveal they begin to rebel most of the time. Normally we’re, not we don’t notice them because it’s just our normal state. This contracted state has just become the norm, so it feels natural normal. It doesn’t cause any problem. It does cause trouble from time to time, but we’ve kind of pro kama dated this contracted state and we live more or less harmoniously with it. Then we take this more expanded view and suddenly, all these all these habits of being contracted, which we previously didn’t notice, now begin to come up in in rebellion because they’re being challenged by this new way of feeling and perceiving, and in fact They’re being exposed, so sometimes we feel. Oh, there are all these new resistances coming up that they’re, not really new resistances, they’re, just they’re ancient resistances of which we were previously unaware. So it’s very good. This, the revealing of this rebellion in the body and, as you say there is a kind of fight going on between them, which one are you going to be. Where are you going to? The old contracted state of the body has become kind of familiar. It.’s we’ve made our peace with it, where we’re used to it, and yet now we’re being invited into something which is actually far more expensive, but far more truly in line with what we what we want and yet, as you Say there is some nostalgia for the old if it fit for the old pair of shoes that you’re about to throw out. So there can be a bit of a back and forth between the two and the body will sometimes you can actually feel it in a very physical way, particularly for instance this morning, when we were imagining breathing in the space behind the body, it’s much More difficult than in front of the body, and you can feel yourself going there behind the body and then almost like a spring, pulling you back through habit into being localized. So sometimes it seems that you actually have to make a bit of an effort. Although it is, in fact, the natural state to live in this expanded openness because of the habit of contracting, we think that it’s natural to be contracted and therefore, to begin with, we feel that we have to make a natural effort to go into the Space, it’s not really a new effort. It’s. It’s. Like an analogy. I give sometimes when you, if you clench your fist like this and you hold it for a long time. You forget that you’re holding it. You think it’s natural and then, when somebody says open your hand, what you actually have to do is relax an effort, but you’re not aware of that. You feel you have to make a new effort to open the hand it’s, not a new effort. It’s the relaxation of an old effort that you were no longer aware of so that’s, what we’re doing it’s like a relaxation of the it feels like a new effort, sometimes gosh. I have to try to move into this space, but actually it’s, not it’s, just the relaxation of tensions and contractions that we weren’t even aware of because we’ve become so used to them. I think I find it when I, when I’m here, enjoy you’re leading us. I find it relatively easy to. Yes, I also noticed that when I wake up in the mornings – I I feel you know in a kind of similar space, yet there’s almost the kind of that moment. I get out of bed something something shifts yes and then I was walking yesterday evening and and that’s, when I notice I’m it’s very familiar it’s, like I’m, not really walking. I’m kind of going somewhere. Yes, there’s a again there,’s a it’s very much very, very located in this area. The solar plexus webpage that there’s a pushing yes that’s it a straining of the nails. Do anything yeah, like kind of yeah, mind of a horse exactly this is the same image came to me. A horse is just pulling on you, but when that’s a perfect example, you know the exercise. We did the exploration we did yesterday when we were hearing and hearing the sound at a distance and seeing the flower and kind of slightly straining to go out towards it and then taking our stand as a way and so allowing the object to come to us. You can do that when you’re walking. You feel this just this straining and there now, even when you’re going for a walk in nature, you feel you’re, just you’re, always in the coming you always just just outside the now. We’re just straining for the now to become the next moment, and so you can experiment with this. While you’re, walking just walk and feel this and then feel what it’s like to be totally 100 in the now, with no sense of the negative grasping for the next moment of needing the next moment to replace the current feel. The quality of your walking how it changes yeah I mean I, why do I slow down an hour? Yes, it sometimes literally means you slow down, but even if it is no slowing down, there’s a kind of relaxation of a very slight tension in the body and that tension is the separate self. This subtle rejection of the now straining at the edge of the now wanting it to become the next now, in other words, we live in becoming rather than being, and this becoming it can be very subtle. Just just this. Just this straining at the edge of the now wanting it to become the next moment. I also notice it when I’m cleaning my teeth that’s very obvious – that I actually want to be somewhere else. Yes and I’m just a name that just agreeing or presence and relaxation yes, you see, awareness is never straining at the now a Wen’s is just a wide open. Yes to the now totally lazy, just not the slightest impulse to avoid the now. It’s only earth either thought and feeling made self that is pushing at the now wanting it to become the next moment that the separate self lives on the edge of the now in that becoming right on the edge of the now wanting the next. Now to happen, that is the separate self that’s all it’s made out of its mad and when we spend we spend our lives there at that, in that becoming in in a state of perpetual becoming we never become what we want to become It’s always just more or becoming what we want to become is the being that is already there. Yes, it’s, it’s really mad. What we, what we are straining towards is what is already present prior to the straining in this just being present, which is what awareness is being present being present open, aware you, but inert in your experience was the process fun in any way. Oh, yes, yes, great! Fun reason I ask is, when you describing to Jeremy the process of looking in the bedroom. Looking the drawers it makes me think it’s. Potentially it’s a bit of a game and my own experience of it is I take you. Take it very. Very seriously and boy it’s going to be so much easier or more enjoyable. If it’s, if we do treat it like a game or a bit of fun. Yes, you can comment on that. When I say it was, it was fun. I was a very serious earnest disciplined young man, so it was, it was bit like Jeremy, so it was let’s say enjoyable rather than fun. Fun would be a bit would have been a bit too much for me in the early days, but it was enjoyable and interesting. It was so it’s. True, I didn’t really treat it like a a game in the sense that I couldn’t care less about it. Its outcome, I’m just playing cards with a friend he wasn’t that kind of a game because it was, I was passionately interested it’s more, like it’s more, like I’m learning to play a musical instrument, you do it Because it’s it’s, joyful it’s, so the pups fit is just the joy of playing music. So in that sense it’s, it’s the most beautiful light. Hearted thing you can do, but nevertheless, on the way there are certain things that you have to do like pay very careful attention to your fingers on the relaxation in your fingers or to a difficult configuration of notes or something. So that requires a little bit of attention and focus, and you don’t do it in. Oh, I couldn’t care less kind of attitude. You know that you think I really want to learn. Why is this change just these change from these? Why’s it’s so difficult! It’s, because there’s tension in my fingers. I I want to learn to relax my fingers, and so you do these exercises and things it’s. It’s. Enjoyable! It’s! Interesting! It’s, but it’s, not it’s, not the funniness. Are I couldn’t get us whether this? No I care, I want my fingers to be relaxed or you have an equivalent in sports or whatever. So it’s, the purpose of it is is yes in this case that the joy of music – but there may be some sometimes when there’s an intense focus, it may appear to be very serious from the outside, but inside your light, hearted about it, Because it’s so interesting, it’s so enjoyable. Somebody else from the outside will say: oh he’s so disciplined from the inside it doesn’t feel like discipline. It feels like love. You’re, you’re doing, and in this case you’re trying to train your body to do something you want it to do and it’s struggling a little bit because it’s a bit afraid and therefore it’s tense. So you’re just helping it to perform in the way that you know to be the way you know it has to be in order to play the music it’s so in the inside. Yes, it may be intense, it may be serious, but it’s very loving from the outside. You say: oh he practices for hours. He’s disciplined it’s, not that it’s, not a disciplined that’s. Why? I don’t use the word practicing or exercises or discipline because they’ve got connotations. They’ve acquired connotations that that make us feel they’re somehow there to confront our natural inclinations. No, this should go with your natural inclinations that’s. Why I said earlier to Jeremy, it should be what you what you love to do now, what you love to do sometimes requires you to be serious. It’s: okay, not not serious, in a heavy way, it can be light and enjoyable and loving and sometimes serious, for you was a light. Hearted stare from the start. No, no, in my case it took a while to get light. Hearted I was rather earnest and and to be given with it the light heartedness came. It came in time, but I I misunderstood the spiritual process early on and made it unnecessarily heavy. It’s not necessary and it really wasn’t until I met my teacher that I realized that it was an enjoyable process and in particular, when you see what was really fun for me was my artwork, because I I loved beauty, I loved truth as Well, but they were in two different camps. There was truth over here. That was what I did in my the inviter school and on my cushion and reading Ramana Maharshi in my bedroom and then was my love of beauty, and they were. I felt a little apologetic about my love of beauty because it involved the senses. You know what what I see and what I hear and what I touch and in the classical advice tradition the world is, is considered to be a little bit dangerous and you want to you don’t want to go there, so I felt a little apologetic Of my love of form and beauty, and it wasn’t until I met my teacher that I realized that these two loves for love of truth than the love of beauty are the same thing and that’s that released a huge amount of misunderstanding. For me, it was like taking the taking the lid off for me and then, from from that moment on, when these two worlds came together, my whole approach to spirituality became much more playful and and particularly because we were doing all these experience, exercises explorations that we’ve been doing here, exploring where does hearing take place? Where does seeing tape is well? What is hearing made out of what is touching all these things? It was so I was right there because I had spent a knife seeing and making, and so I had all this all the tools were already there and now all those tools that I just used in my work when now being applied, I had been doing these Higher sensing sizes, what what you used to call high sensing these exploring the tactile sense, exploring sounds exploring sides. I’d been doing it without knowing it. When I used to go to museums and look at pieces and in my studio I have been doing it, but now I was being given a context and it was being elaborated. So it was that I was so enthusiastic about it. It was so exciting to to know to go to experience whatever experience was and to and to explore it, so it changed at a certain time for me when I really connected it. With my experience when it was no longer just a mental discipline, when I could really involve all of my experience together and everything came together as part of the same exploration, it became exciting. He used the word playful, which seems really point, maybe better than game. Yes, playful, I I remember very early on in California with Francis he was doing a probably the second or third retreat I had been on. He was doing a medic doing making up these kind of contemplations like like. We did today, something like that. So I would immediately go off and start making up my own. I just immediately started creating my own kinds of experiments and and then I would come in the meeting in the evening and and say I I’ve just been making up. I want to make sure that I’m on on the right track, and so then I would explain the contemplations that I was making up for myself and I wanted to check out that it was. I was in the right track and he just said: yeah yeah, absolutely that that’s it that’s the way to go just be creative, make up your own own experiments and, and then the next morning in meditation. He actually said he said okay this morning we’ll, do the Ruppert meditation and then he used the meditation that I had made up the day before and this was it was so sweet of him because it was like it was like him saying to me. Yeah that this is this is the way I let you know that you’re doing, keep going like that be creative. I’m just giving you samples you don’t have to you. Don’t have to think okay. What what did we do? In that expiration yesterday I’ve got to go through exactly I’m, just giving you a taste to give you lots of different ideas of the way to explore experience, but everyone’s. Experience is slightly different, so you might have a tendency towards you. Can you can go there? You make up your own, so, yes, it was playful, it was creative enjoyable. In that sense it was. It was fun. It was interesting. It was what I wanted to do with my time and then I would go on retreats and over the years, like it’s happening here, the same people would be showing up on retreats, sometimes new people, and sometimes people that came so there was this nice Sense of kind of family in, in the best sense of the word, a kind of community without any expectations, without any rules without any demands without expectations. We there was this loose community of friends that we just meet from time to time and this feeling of friendship. This beautiful quality of friendship that that takes place in gatherings like this, because where no one’s here to prove anything or defend anything. So we all meet very innocently and openly – and I noticed this lovely quality of friendships and I used to be a recluse in I spent 25 years as a recluse in my studio you know never going and suddenly I find I had all these beautiful friends all Over the world and – and that was it was so nice to go on on retreats and to be together with friends and then to come home and to keep exploring all this, and so yes, it was enjoyable, creative, playful, fun, enthusiastic interesting. I mean the old ideas that spiritual life is it kind of thoughts, your natural inclinations and and your it takes everything you really want to do away from you and then sits you down on a mat and where you have to wrap at a mantra and discipline. Your mind and discipline, your body and you you know I hear of retreats where nobody’s, not only the thing that they don’t talk to each other. You’re not even allowed to look at each other. In the eye I mean, for God,’s sake. How are you going to discover that you’re one with someone if you’re not able to look at them in the eye, I mean what could be more separating and isolating than that. I’m, not I don’t put that conne commenting in context in a particular context. I understand that a silent retreat is beautiful and has its benefits. I can’t quite see the lack of eye contact thing, but I guess in a certain context it may also have its benefits, so I don’t mean to criticize that out of context, but it’s, not the approach we we take here. It’s, it’s, it’s, not a disciplined approach. It’s a loving approach. In fact, true discipline is a movement of love. So the answer is yes: if that’s, what you mean by fun, it was fun, and it still is, it still is fun. It still is enjoyable because we hang out together here as friends. What we do here is is so much more than just guided meditations and conversations what we do it spills out into our into our meals. I mean there’s, nothing more delightful and no waking up this morning and everyone’s having breakfast on the grass talking and because of this quality of friendship, I mean most of us. Didn’t know each other two days ago, three days ago, and already there’s a quality of friendship that sometimes takes years to develop, and that is that that is a the flowering of this understanding. It’s, one area in which it flowers in the quality of our friendships. Thank you. You
so if you're new to webflow thisÂ
tutorial is designed for you  we're gonna go step by step uh starting fromÂ
a blank page uh to building a completely fully  functioning recipe blog and let me quickly showÂ
you what the final product is gonna look like and  you're going to have a home page here which isÂ
going to list out the different recipes that are  in the back end of your webflow site and you'reÂ
going to be able to click into the specific recipe  and see the photo and see information that you'reÂ
storing about that recipe like ingredients and  then the uh description of how to actuallyÂ
uh make the recipe and then you're gonna  have a navbar here to go back to the home pageÂ
and we're also gonna build in these filtering  pages here so you can click on a specificÂ
cuisine of food and see the recipes that  fit within that specific cuisine so this tutorialÂ
is for complete beginners so even if you have  no flow experience at all or no web designÂ
experience you've never built a website  we're going to go step by step i'm going to showÂ
you exactly how to do it so don't be intimidated  and by the end you're going to know how to useÂ
webflow and how to build a site like this on your  own so i hope you enjoy the tutorial so what youÂ
need to do is first create a webflow account and  it's going to put you into the dashboard yours isÂ
going to be empty and then go ahead and click new  project on the top right and then once you clickÂ
new project go ahead and click blank site we're  not going to use a template in our case becauseÂ
i want to teach you the fundamentals of web flow  from a blank site and then you can always useÂ
that knowledge on a template later on so i'm  just going to name my project recipe site you canÂ
name your project something similar if you'd like and that's going to drop you into the webÂ
flow designer and the designer might seem a  little bit overwhelming at first with all of theÂ
different settings and buttons but i'm going to  walk you through what you need to know to buildÂ
the website so the first thing that i want to do  is go ahead to the top left here to this addÂ
element button and this is where all of the  different web flow components are held and whatÂ
we're going to do is click on section and that's  going to drop a section into the body now if youÂ
have built a website with css and html in the past  this is going to seem familiar and it might beÂ
a little bit easier for you to pick up webflow  but even if you haven't used css or htmlÂ
in the past i'm going to walk you through  what you need to know so no worries if you haveÂ
no experience with that webflow basically is a  visual designer of css and html code in fact ifÂ
you wanted to actually export your website once  you are finished you can export the code andÂ
host that code somewhere else so webflow is  essentially letting you use its tools to visuallyÂ
visually code essentially so in html and css  you're building using the box model and what a boxÂ
model means is everything you put on your website  is boxes within boxes and we're going to use ourÂ
styling to make our boxes you know say and look  what we want how we want them to and they're goingÂ
to be placed on the website how we want them to  you'll see what i mean as i keep going um soÂ
first we have this section here at the top  and this is where we're going to design our mainÂ
header so within this section let's go ahead and  add a heading and a heading is just like it seemsÂ
it is um you know big text on your website that's  going to be a heading for a section and let's giveÂ
this h1 h1 through 6 is the size of the heading  and now let's go ahead and add another headingÂ
let's drag that right underneath and you can see  it's at the same indentation here right underneathÂ
the section which is exactly what we want  and we're going to go ahead and click h3 inÂ
this case which is going to be our subheading  and here let's just rename or edit theÂ
text here and let's just call it my  recipe blog and then under heading um theÂ
best recipes um for you to cook at home  perfect so we're not going to worry too much aboutÂ
the content here it's mostly about the design  and understanding how webflow works so nowÂ
that we've created this structure of a section  with a heading two headings within that sectionÂ
let's go over to the styling here on the right  side and what we're going to do is go ahead andÂ
add a class and we're going to name the class  section the reason classes are helpful in web flowÂ
is once you create the styling of this class we  can name other sections that same section classÂ
and they're going to automatically take on the  same styling which is going to be really helpfulÂ
um for a lot of things in webflow that we create  we're going to go ahead and add this section we'reÂ
going to give it some padding now padding is space  inside so here if we hover you can see it's insideÂ
the box that those green lines are inside the  section box that we just created and i'm going toÂ
take that away and if i add margin you can see if  we hover over that the blue lines are outside theÂ
box so that's the difference between margin and  padding so i'm going to go ahead and removeÂ
that real quick so in our case what i want to do  is add some padding so let's go ahead and i'mÂ
going to hold option this is a little trick in  webflow if you hold option and and drag it's goingÂ
to automatically add the same padding on the left  and right or the top and bottom depending on whichÂ
side you're on and if you hold shift it's going to  automatically add padding all the way around andÂ
we go ahead and remove that um so shift is on all  four sides option or i believe it's alt on a pc isÂ
going to be the top and the bottom so i'm going to  go ahead and add 50 pixels of padding on the topÂ
on the left and right i'm going to go ahead and add why don't i say 60 on the top and bottomÂ
and this is going to be our section and then  um what i'm going to do is go ahead and addÂ
um a combo class and uh i'm going to add pop  and what a combo class does is it allows usÂ
to add additional styling to our first class  without editing that first class so if we add umÂ
a background color here which is what i'm going  to do go down to the bottom here with backgroundÂ
under color why don't i give this like a yellow  background that's a hex code hex codesÂ
are essentially codes that represent  the color that you're using on your website andÂ
that is going to be a part of that top combo  class so if i create another section later on andÂ
it doesn't have that um that top combo class it's  going to have the same padding with no backgroundÂ
if i add top it's going to add in that yellow  background or any other styling changes that weÂ
want to change like on the top if we want to add  you know 200 padding and make it really longÂ
we can do that i'm gonna hit um undo to do that  you can undo anything or redo things in webflowÂ
using either the keyboard shortcut so command z  or you can use uh these buttons here toÂ
redo and undo if you make any mistakes  okay great so you're starting to understandÂ
kind of how to start adding content to  your website's home page now what i want toÂ
do is actually add websites to the backend  database of our webflow site and we're going toÂ
do this by using the content management system or  the webflow cms which is where we're going to holdÂ
all of our data and that's going to be dynamically  displayed on our website and the way we do that isÂ
we go to the left bar here to this cms button so  we're going to click cms and we're going to createÂ
our first collection and go ahead and press that  and we're going to use one of webflow's collectionÂ
templates in this tutorial so go ahead and click  recipes and webflow is going to automatically pullÂ
in some custom fields that are going to be helpful  for our recipe and we can always edit theseÂ
later but for now this is going to be great  for start so here we have the name of the recipeÂ
we have an ingredients area we have a directions  area we have uh recipe history that might be kindÂ
of some background information about the recipe  we have the main image we have the thumbnailÂ
image whether it's a featured recipe or not and  we have color color is something to edit like theÂ
color of the buttons or the text if you wanted to  i'm actually going to go aheadÂ
and delete that to delete  what you want to do is go hit that settings andÂ
then just hit that trash can right there perfect  so here let's go ahead and create theÂ
collection and we might add some more fields  later on but for now let's go ahead and create theÂ
collection we have zero recipes in our collection  let's go ahead and add a new recipe so go ahead toÂ
the top right and let's go ahead and add a recipe  so what i'm going to do is go find a recipe onlineÂ
and we're going to use that as kind of a template  so that way we have some content to put inÂ
all right so i'm getting a pesto recipe from  bonapite.com and i'm going to go ahead and enterÂ
in the name it's going to be called best pesto and  let's go ahead and add in the ingredients andÂ
this is a rich text field and what that means  is you can format your text directly in this fieldÂ
so you can add a plus button you can add images  you can add bullet points which is what i'm goingÂ
to do here and i'm going to go ahead and add in  the recipe ingredients so half a cup of pine nutsÂ
it's three ounce parmesan two garlic cloves six  six cups of basil three fourth cup extra virginÂ
olive oil and sure so that that's the ingredients  section um for directions i'm just going toÂ
go ahead and copy and paste in the directions  from boneapetit.com and i'm going to goÂ
ahead and paste that in and here you can see  because it's a rich text field if you highlightÂ
over text you can see this is a heading 4.  and you can change the sizes if you'd likeÂ
as well so this is a heading 4.
Perfect for recipe history i'm just going to leave thatÂ
blank for now i think we're going to go back and  delete that in our case we're just going toÂ
remove the recipe history we can always you  could always add that back yourself if you'dÂ
want later under main image let's go ahead  and download an image of pesto and what i wouldÂ
recommend is let's just go to unsplash.com  and they probably have some pictures here perfectÂ
so i'm going to go ahead and download that and let's go back to webflow and i'm justÂ
going to drag in our main image and i'm going  to use the same image for the main image as theÂ
thumbnail image perfect and we're just going to  leave that unchecked for now so i'm going to goÂ
ahead and and create that and then like i said  let's edit and remove that recipe history fieldÂ
so let's edit that settings here under recipes  um and then let's go ahead and under recipeÂ
history hit that um settings and trash can and  delete the recipe history perfect so let's saveÂ
the collection and let's go ahead and add a few  more recipes so what i would recommend on your ownÂ
is go to a recipe website find a few recipes and  go ahead and edit in the enter in the informationÂ
so you have some content to work with so i'm going  to go to bonapite.com and add in a few moreÂ
recipes here one other thing i would recommend  is maybe add in um a couple different cuisines soÂ
in my case i'll i'll do a couple italian recipes  and then maybe a couple recipes of another cuisineÂ
um that's going to be helpful when we add in our  cuisine type later on which is something we'reÂ
going to add to our recipe site so go ahead and  do that i'm going to pause the video and do thatÂ
myself as well all right so i've gone ahead and  added four total recipes i've added two italianÂ
into thai recipes and uh let's go back to our  home page and now what we're gonna do is addÂ
a element here on the top left and it's going  to be a collection list and this is kind of theÂ
magic of webflow so we're going to drag that in  and the source is going to be our recipeÂ
collection and you can see it's already pulling in  those uh recipes that we've added and then withinÂ
that let's go ahead and pull in an image block  and let's just make sure that's dragged intoÂ
that collection item you can see you can see  it's automatically pulling in four images becauseÂ
it's going to be styling each collection item the  exact same way so we're going to get thatÂ
image from recipes and that's going to be  our thumbnail image and wow you can see umÂ
it's not styled so it's just pulling it in  um full size actually looks kind of coolÂ
but um we're going to style that a little  bit so we have the image and let'sÂ
also go ahead and pull in a heading  drag that below the image and why don't weÂ
do an h3 and the text is going to be the name  perfect and then let's go to the collection listÂ
and what we're going to do so the collection list  is what's holding in all each item and we're goingÂ
to give that a display of grid and as you can see  a grid is a really great display that's goingÂ
to automatically um if we just hit done it it's  a 2×2 right here and i think that's actually notÂ
that bad so let's go ahead and keep it at a 2×2Â Â and what i want to do is make sure thatÂ
all of the images are the same size so  what i'm going to do is a little trick hereÂ
so instead of actually having an image block  i'm going to pull in a div a div is essentiallyÂ
a box in html and i'm going to give that div a  background image which is going to be this imageÂ
so i'm just going to go ahead and first pull in  a link block the reason we want this to be a linkÂ
block is because we want to link to this specific  recipe so the link block is going to be here umÂ
in the collection item and then within that link  block we want to pull in a div and just kindÂ
of hover over and you can see we're pulling it  underneath that link block and now that we'reÂ
on this div go to your settings make sure you're  hovered over this div go to click get backgroundÂ
image from recipes we're going to select field and  make it a thumbnail image perfect and now let'sÂ
go back to our um paint brush here our style  and we're going to edit the width soÂ
first let's just make this 400 pixels by  200 pixels so right off the bat we'reÂ
creating um the size of these images  and then go down to our backgrounds and whatÂ
we're going to do is hit this plus button and  uh we don't have to actually add an imageÂ
because we were already pulling it in from our  cms so you can ignore that but let's go aheadÂ
and click cover and what cover is going to do  is as you can see it's going to make the imageÂ
basically fill up the whole background and  then what i want to do is position it in theÂ
center and the reason i want to do this is  as you can see um it's making the image centeredÂ
on the center center of the image and what that's  doing you can compare what we had to what we haveÂ
now so here for example we have this really tall  image now we have this image that's all the sameÂ
size as the others and it's centered on the middle  of the image so let's go ahead and click on thatÂ
image that we had before and let's just delete it  so now we have this div block which is really theÂ
image so let's click on that right arrow on the  class on the right side and click rename classÂ
and what we're going to do is rename this to  food thumbnail perfect and then let's go toÂ
its sizing and let's change the width to uh i was going to do 100 but that didn't workÂ
let's just change it to 500 pixels by 300 pixels  and then on this link block  let's go ahead and drag in that heading underneathÂ
that image so the heading is all in that  link block and in the link block uh let's goÂ
ahead and remove that in the typography we  want to remove the text decoration and then makeÂ
the color black so it's not that blue underline and then within the link block let's go aheadÂ
and give that a display of flex and this is going  to allow us to kind of easily position the itemsÂ
in the box the way that we want to so flux and  grid are both really helpful we're going toÂ
use flex here and we want this to be vertical  we want the alignment to be centeredÂ
and that's all we want to do so here  we can see now everything is centered the wayÂ
that we want it to be perfect and now we should  be able to go back to that food thumbnail andÂ
make the width a hundred percent and now it's  going to work the way that we want it to becauseÂ
it's within that flexbox you don't have to worry  too much about how for now but it works so this isÂ
going to give us that nice full width image here  so now we have our collection list wrapper and weÂ
have these link blocks with our recipes that we've  created and the great thing is as you add moreÂ
recipes to your recipe site they're automatic  added they're automatically going to getÂ
added here in this collection list so  uh one thing i want to do now is go ahead andÂ
click that add element we're going to add a  section here and we're going to just make sureÂ
you drag it to the left so it's kind of within  that body here if you have trouble you can alwaysÂ
drag it to the top and then kind of drag it back  but here we have this second section let's giveÂ
it a class of section we don't want to give it  the class of top section we just want section andÂ
then let's go ahead and drag our collection list  wrapper within it so now the great thing aboutÂ
this is it's lined up um because it has the exact  same padding so it's automatically going to addÂ
in that padding and the cool thing is if we change  the padding there it's going to change it on theÂ
top as well maybe we'll add a little bit more  so this is nice it just gives some nice spacing next let's go to our link block hereÂ
why don't we rename it to recipe  link recipe link group and then go to settingsÂ
here and what we want to do is we're going to  choose where we want that link to goÂ
so in our pace we're going to click  collection page and we're going to choose theÂ
current recipe and what that's going to do is  allow us to click into a page that's going toÂ
hold the all the information about the recipe  and perfect so um what we can do now is whereÂ
that is if we go to pages here on the left side  you can see we have our home page and then weÂ
have our recipes template now we need to go in  and actually create that page and edit the recipesÂ
template so that when you click on the recipe it's  going to put you into this recipe template pageÂ
so let's quickly just add some information here  that we've created so let's add in a sectionÂ
let's go ahead and give it that section  title label and let's go ahead and add in aÂ
heading and then here let's get text from name  perfect so we have best pesto andÂ
let's go ahead and add in a div and let's go ahead and give this in ourÂ
settings a background image the way that  we did before and we're going to do theÂ
main image here and we're going to do and let's go ahead and add a div andÂ
then let's put that heading in the div  and then what i want to do is go ahead and addÂ
another div and i'm going to just drag that  underneath so now we're going to have these twoÂ
divs one with the heading and then one div here  and we're going to add an image i'm just goingÂ
to drag that in and the image is going to be the  main main image here from our thumbnail perfect umÂ
so we have our uh name and we have the image here okay perfect and um we might not need theseÂ
uh divs uh but we'll see how we decide to  kind of design it as we go so um and thenÂ
in this item let's go ahead and just see  how this looks on others so perfect redÂ
pesto pasta and it might look a little  cleaner if you upload pictures that are inÂ
this kind of more horizontal aspect ratio  so here we go we have these um let's go aheadÂ
and add another section below let's uh whoops  um go ahead and add a section if you need toÂ
kind of drag it above and then drag it below  let's give this a section class so it's goingÂ
to have all the same settings and let's go ahead  and drag in a rich text field and you need toÂ
drag in a rich text field you can't drag in a  you know normal heading or paragraph because theÂ
rich text block is we're getting text from our  directions or ingredients which are rich textÂ
cms fields so let's go ahead and pull ingredients  all right so next we're going toÂ
go ahead and add in another section and just drag that below and let's give this theÂ
same section class so it pulls in all the same  spacing in that section let's go ahead andÂ
give this a heading so i'm just going to click  on heading and that pulled it in underneath andÂ
let's double click on this and write ingredients whoops misspelled that and then let's goÂ
ahead and pull in a rich text field  and it has to be a rich text field not a normalÂ
paragraph field because the uh text in the cms  is a rich text field in the cms soÂ
we're going to pull in ingredients  you can see that's automatically pulled inÂ
we'll style this more later and then let's just  click duplicate that i clicked on that section iÂ
use my keyboard shortcut of command c if you're  on a pc i think it's ctrl c and command v orÂ
control v and that's going to duplicate it so then  let's just change this to directions and then hereÂ
let's change that to directions perfect so we have  our uh rich text field we have our headingÂ
and we have our ingredients and our directions  perfect so you can see we have our homeÂ
page and then we have our recipes template  perfect let's go back home let's go ahead andÂ
click publish so if we click click publish it's  going to publish this on our webflow url if youÂ
upgrade your plan you can add a custom domain  in webflow and webflow can host it let's go aheadÂ
and view our site so here we go this is our live  site and if we click on one of our links here itÂ
will take us to our recipe page so sweet spicy  cucumber salad and here we have our ingredientsÂ
and here we have our directions and if we go back  we're back on the home page and we can clickÂ
on another recipe um so even in our case here  we've already built out kind of the frame for aÂ
recipe blog so we have our home page and you can  click and you can browse different recipesÂ
so let's add a little bit more to our site  to make this just a little bit nicer and a littleÂ
bit more built out all right so let's go back to  webflow and now i'm going to explain responsiveÂ
design and this is something that webflow lets you  do really easily so responsive design is makingÂ
sure that your website looks good no matter what  device the user is looking at so here you can seeÂ
it looks good on the tablet size as we get to the  mobile landscape uh it still pretty muchÂ
works and then as we get to our mobile  portrait our mobile phone um it's reallyÂ
not working anymore so it's kind of breaking  so what we're going to do to fix thatÂ
it should be pretty simple so here  we're in our mobile landscape let's edit thisÂ
first so let's click on a section and what's  happening i can tell is there's too muchÂ
padding so it's not giving enough space  for our images here so all we have to do isÂ
go ahead and reduce the padding because we  don't need as much padding on a smaller screenÂ
size so here now it's working perfectly fine  um one thing that's really cool aboutÂ
webflow is if you make changes on a  smaller um device size it's going to automaticallyÂ
make the change on every size that's smaller than  that but if you go to larger sizes that's stillÂ
going to keep the original design that you had  so here that helped it on the mobile but it'sÂ
still not really working what we want is instead  of two images per row we actually want one so whatÂ
we want to do is edit this grid so go to the right  side here just click edit grid make sure you're onÂ
that grid collection list and then in the columns  just go ahead and delete one of the columnsÂ
and then hit done and now it's automatically  creating that one column design that we would beÂ
looking for here the other thing we want to do  is go into our recipe our recipe link and let'sÂ
align to the left because in this case on one it's  just going to look better if we're aligningÂ
it to the left alright so i'm back on the  main desktop breakpoint and now what i'm goingÂ
to do is show you how to edit the design of your  headings and headings is kind of a global styleÂ
so this h1 h2 h3 h4 586 and you could just add a  class like heading or main heading if you wantedÂ
um but what we want to do is is if we click on  this heading one and we click on the class butÂ
don't name it and then go to all h1 headings  this way we can edit the style of the fontÂ
and it's going to affect every place on our  site that we have h1 headings so let's goÂ
ahead and change the font and let's choose  to whichever font you want i'm going to go aheadÂ
and pick one uh why don't we do um let's see here let's do monsterat and i'mÂ
going to make the weight extra bold and i'm going to make the colorÂ
black perfect and then let's go here to h3Â Â and let's do the same thingÂ
click on all h3 headings  and let's change the font and here youÂ
can see because these uh fonts are also h3 you can see that it isÂ
also changing so one on h3Â Â let's do uh lotto um or maybe in in consolataÂ
let's do that and then let's make this black  as well so we have this kind of different font umÂ
i'm just doing this for our use case here perfect  and then let's also change the margin on h3 let'sÂ
make it 10 on the top and 5 on the bottom perfect you can also add more fonts you can addÂ
any google font in the uh project settings  of your webflow site but we're not going toÂ
do that right now perfect so we have uh this  um these fonts that were changed and then let'sÂ
go to let's go to that recipe link and i know  we did this on mobile but i think we shouldÂ
do this on desktop as well let's go ahead and edit the alignment to the left youÂ
know this is just personal preference okay so now as we go here that's looking good onÂ
every uh device size perfect and let's check out  that cms collection page so here we can see uhÂ
that heading was automatically changed um and  then perfect that heading was changed as well soÂ
the next thing i want to do is let's edit the um  let's edit more of the um styles on our site uhÂ
so for example you can see uh this is a different  h um a different heading and it still has that umÂ
basic style and i'm gonna make that a little bit  more custom and then the paragraph here as wellÂ
i want to make that a little bit more custom too  so in order to do that let's just go ahead andÂ
pull in a rich text field and let's just drag that  in and then if we click and click on thisÂ
it's a heading 2 and we can click all h2Â Â and we can give that the monserra andÂ
let's give that a black color as well  um let's do the same for this heading four makeÂ
sure you just click rna and all h4 for this let's  give that the and you can see that's changingÂ
those steps over there because it's that same h4Â Â let's do in consul in consolata which is whatÂ
we did before and give it that black perfect  and then this is the paragraph let's clickÂ
all paragraphs and why don't we give this  latte and let's make this black as well one otherÂ
thing that i want to add is go ahead and click  that plus button here make sure youÂ
just click an empty space hit return  let's add a plus let's add bullets andÂ
let's just say test test test and this the list item let's go ahead and click all listÂ
items and let's change that to lotto as well  and let's give that a black color as well andÂ
that's going to edit those list items there  so this is just kind of how to style thoseÂ
global styles on your site like the heading  and the paragraphs and the list itemsÂ
i'm going to go ahead and delete that now  perfect all right awesome so cool so now we haveÂ
some pretty good looking um kind of recipe pages  with our um image we have our ingredients andÂ
our directions and if we go to our home page we have a pretty good looking homepage soÂ
let's just edit this uh in this top section  let's just remove that image um why don't we justÂ
the background image let's just make it like a  really light gray here um cool so just that'sÂ
a little bit cleaner so we just have this  light gray and then we have these images here so let's go ahead and click publishÂ
and by now if we go to our site  um we're going to have a pretty goodÂ
looking recipe blog so we can click in  we have the image we have ingredients and we haveÂ
directions the next thing i want to do is add a  nav bar here at the top so go ahead and click theÂ
plus button and let's go ahead and just pull in  this nav bar element component and this is justÂ
kind of a pre-made nav bar that webflow has for us  in that nav bar let's go ahead and click onÂ
that the background color of the nav bar and  let's just make that a dark gray and then in theÂ
brand let's go ahead and pull in our heading here  and let's give it a class of brand logo andÂ
then what i'm going to do is give it a white  color i'm going to re re-name it top recipes andÂ
then let's give it a different font which is kind  of more like a brand logo changa one perfect andÂ
then this nav menu i'm just going to delete for  now because we don't have any other pages we justÂ
have our logo here which we want to take us back  to our home page so in this brand what we want toÂ
do is click on that link hit the settings there  go to settings here we want the page we're goingÂ
to choose a page and it's going to be the home  page perfect so now we have this nav bar what weÂ
want to do is create a symbol and we're going to  do that by clicking on the symbol here clickingÂ
create new symbol just click nav bar make sure  you're on the navbar when you do this and nowÂ
we've created this symbol of the navbar so now  if we go back to our recipes template and we addÂ
oops we go to the symbols tab we can just drag  in the nav bar to the top here so now anythingÂ
if we double click and we edit the nav bar here  on this page it'll automatically be edited alsoÂ
on the home page so the symbol is a really helpful  um way to kind of have a repeating elementÂ
throughout your site you could do this for  the footer you could do this for aÂ
lot of different things on your site  so let's go back to the home page andÂ
perfect let's go ahead and hit publish so let's go ahead and go to our site and awesomeÂ
so we have our top recipes we have our recipe blog  if we click in we have this and if we clickÂ
back to our top recipes it's taking us  back to the home page one thing that's botheringÂ
me a little bit as i see this isn't um aligned um  so what i want to do is go back to our webflowÂ
designer i'm gonna double click on that nav bar  and then what i'm gonna do is take thatÂ
brand and put it outside that container  i'm just going to delete the container and kindÂ
of create our own nav bar and then in the nav  bar i want it to have the same padding as ourÂ
section so that's 74 on each side so this nav  bar let's double click let's click and do 74Â
on the left 74 on the right so now let's just  make sure as we keep going here we're goingÂ
to need to change it to 21 so let's go 21 21 and here we should be even whoops the brandÂ
has a um 10 padding so i'm just going to go  remove that on that break point here so nowÂ
as we go down we're going to be even and it's  all going to be aligned and look a little bitÂ
nicer so let's go ahead and publish that now and let's go back to our site and whoops let's refresh and perfect so now we have our nav bar it'sÂ
aligned it's all looking nice we can click to go  home and we can click on recipe here perfect so weÂ
have our recipe we have the photo the ingredients  uh the directions then if we click onÂ
this logo here at the top it's going to  take us back to our home page so hopefullyÂ
this was a helpful beginner tutorial so  if you've gone through this tutorial you know kindÂ
of the basics of how to build most web webflow  sites so you know how to build different pages youÂ
know how to build out a collection list you know  how to build out specific collection pages andÂ
you know how to link around to the different sites  one more thing i want to show you how to do umÂ
so you understand uh the collection relations  um is add a collection um list in webflow that'sÂ
going to have the cuisine type and this is just an  important concept for you to understand in webflowÂ
so let's go back really quick go to our cms we're  going to add a new collection and we're goingÂ
to call this cuisine type and it's just going  to be name for now i don't think we even need toÂ
really do anything else in this beginner tutorial  so let's go ahead and create the collection andÂ
let's just add two so we're going to add italian  we're going to create and we're going to addÂ
thai and we're going to create we can even add  a mexican if we want so we have a third andÂ
let's go back to recipes and then in this recipe let's go ahead and edit that recipe collectionÂ
list and we're going to add a new field and  it's going to be a reference field and thisÂ
is going to be the cuisine type and we're  going to select a collection to rest referenceÂ
which is the cuisine types and let's go ahead  and click save field and save collection andÂ
then you can go in to your individual recipes  and let's choose the cuisine type that it belongsÂ
to so we have thai we have thai and we have  italian and we have italian and i'm not going toÂ
get uh too detailed here but i am going to show  you kind of the power of this so i'm going to goÂ
to our pages and now because we created another  collection list we have our collection page hereÂ
for cuisine type so let's go ahead and click on  cuisine type template let's just go ahead and addÂ
in a symbol let's add our navbar here at the top  and let's also go ahead and add a sectionÂ
let's give it that section class let's add  in our heading here and let's do h1 we're goingÂ
to get text from cuisine type which is the name and then what i want to do is go back to ourÂ
home page and in this section i want to go to  collection list wrapper and just copy it doÂ
command c or control c on your keyboard if  you're on a pc go back to our recipes temp notÂ
our recipes template our cuisine type template  make sure you're highlighted in that section andÂ
let's paste that in so here we have our collection  list wrapper now what we want to do here is hitÂ
the settings on the collection list wrapper not  there here the settings on the right and we wantÂ
to filter and we're going to do is add a filter  where the cuisine type reference equals theÂ
current cuisine type so we're going to save that  so now on this italian page we are goÂ
automatically showing the italian recipes and on  the thai page we're automatically showing the thaiÂ
recipes and because we copied the collection list  everything is going to all work the same so if weÂ
click on that image it's going to put us through  to that page so this is pretty cool and uh ifÂ
we it's all going to automatically have the same  exact styles so let's just go to the home pageÂ
really quickly and i'm going to show you how you  can kind of make this even more powerful so let'sÂ
go ahead and add a collection list wrapper another  one and let's just add that right above uh thatÂ
section and let's go ahead and have this be the  cuisine types and what we're going to add here areÂ
buttons to quickly um put users onto the specific  cuisine type that they're looking for so let's goÂ
ahead and add a link block here in the collection  item and let's make that link go to the currentÂ
cuisine type which is that page that we just made  and then let's go ahead and add text inside andÂ
we're going to get the text from the cuisine type  and it's going to be that name soÂ
now we have all three names here  and let's just style this really quickly i thinkÂ
link um let's just style this let's name it um  cuisine link and give it no decorationÂ
and the color is going to be uh black  and the typography is goingÂ
to be um guatta perfect  and then let's go to the collectionÂ
list whoops collection list here we go  we want to change this to flexÂ
we want flex horizontal perfect  and then in the cuisine link uh let's go ahead andÂ
also add some padding here on the top and bottom  and let's make the background kind of like aÂ
light gray and then let's add 10 pixels of margin  on that right side there okay perfect andÂ
then let's pull that collection list wrapper  right there um in the section where we haveÂ
our images and then let's also add some margin  below it so 30 margin below perfect so now weÂ
have these buttons mexicans high italian um on  that home page there okay great let's just checkÂ
kind of how that looks on different screen sizes  that's all looking great and let's preview youÂ
can preview without publishing by clicking that  toggle preview button and if we click italianÂ
that's going to take us to the italian page  perfect so let's go back to home andÂ
why don't we go ahead and publish perfect so now if we go backÂ
to our recipe site and refresh uh perfect so now we have our homepage and weÂ
have our toggles here and we click and click on  italian and it's going to take us to our italianÂ
page we can click on the recipe and then we can  go back home there's a lot more that you couldÂ
build into this if this were a more advanced  tutorial we can do hovering so as you hover overÂ
the link the color can change or it can kind of  go up a little bit when you hover over it soÂ
it kind of indicates that it can be clicked  we could add a lot more to these recipe pagesÂ
but i think kind of as a basic tutorial hopefully  this is really helpful to kind of understandÂ
how webflow works and what you can do with it  thanks for checking out the tutorial if this wasÂ
helpful please leave a like and subscribe to my  channel that's really helpful and if you want toÂ
learn more about webflow or learn more about noco  tools in general check out no code mba there's aÂ
link in the description which is my website where  i go deep on a variety of no code tools with a lotÂ
of different tutorials to teach you how to build  apps and websites without code so definitelyÂ
check that out if you're interested and keep  an eye on my channel for more free tutorialsÂ
that i put out and i hope you have a great day
Hi I’m Nouha, I’m with Sadek We’re in Prismic Studio, And we wanted to answer a question. We hear a lot, which is When I create a website.
How do I choose which technologies work with? How do I choose my tech stack Right and you know it’s an important question and it comes so often Because there are so many solutions, so many technologies Like people ask like, should I use WordPress? Should I not use WordPress, There are so many other choices like about frameworks Like you know, you React, Gatsby, JavaScript, Node, js or others.
You know, and each of these have it’s own advantages And that’s.
Why? Knowing these advantages? Knowing your context, then, you can decide better Yeah, So that’s, why? Maybe we thought of doing this video to kind of go into the advantages of the different approaches? The answer that we tend to give first is related to like who you are.
Who are you Right If you’re a developer or not or a designer Right? If you don’t know how and you don’t want to learn how to write JavaScript and CSS, So maybe you’re looking for some like website visual builder, where you have some interface, Drag and drop, Drag and drop Some blocks to get your Website, of course, it’s constrained, but maybe for your case, you don’t want to invest time learning So that’s an approach that’s an approach, Not the approach that we are going to talk about in this video.
We’re more.
Focusing on people that can write some HTML and CSS M, hmm So for the other people that can do that.
So basically, there are two different blocks: Right: Yeah There is the code or the templates that kind of render the website, And there is the content.
Where does it go? Where do you host it? How do you edit it Right Because, of course, you can do a website without managing content, Then you will have that, as you know, static, But you don’t want to go committing changing your code and redeploying it each time you have to go fix a Typo, Yes, It’s, not very good.
You know It takes a lot of time and its not a very productive approach, So it’s better to imagine it as two different blocks. Two different blocks, One that renders and one that manages content which has like an editor, and you know all the different things that you need to publish, content.
Okay and then you have two choices: Either you chose a solutions where you have those two blocks coupled like WordPress, for instance, Or you could use two different solutions Like have your own framework and your own CMS Right.
For instance, traditional solutions will have these both coupled, But the problem with that is your constrained to what that CMS technology provides you.
So you have to, for instance, WordPress to write inside WordPress templates To add plug ins To add plug ins.
All these kinds of things, Which is a good approach.
There are a lot of things we can learn from WordPress, They’ve done a great job and they have a huge community.
But you know you can’t chose your favorite technologies or framework from these.
That are evolving along The other thing.
I say: okay, well, what I need the CMS for is just the publishing and the editor, And then I want to be able to.
You know use my favorite framework, a JavaScript framework or whatever it is PHP framework, And you know to develop with that. So that’s another approach, That’s a solid solution, So yeah, and then there’s the choice between these technologies and these CMS.
These cms yeah That need to be approached, And you talked about the community and that’s, maybe something that can help you choose Right When you consider a technology like the community around it Yeah.
Is there a big community around something? Because you know you don’t want to be stuck with something that doesn’t have a community, Because in case you have questions or have issues or using it, not in the way they thought about it.
Yep.
You need to be able to have someone else that has thought of it or developed, something for it or gave an answer about it Or you can ask, and you know that your going to have like an answer really quickly.
But how can you know like what how big the community is? Well, when it’s about the community, most of people would look at their Github and see how many stars they have, or the number of questions answered In StackOverflow things like this, But I like the idea of having like a Slack community or Spectrum Spectrum community Where you know you can ask questions, You can interact Yeah with chat And I had a friend he used to go to google and just google like the name of the technology issue, And then he will see how many issues they have in this community and how Are they solving them? You know.
Are they responding to these people Just to test it out laughing? So maybe in future videos we’ll.
You know in next videos we’ll talk about how to choose a framework And then maybe in another, video dig deeper.
How to choose a CMS or something for managing content, Yeah sure Cool .
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