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So it feels really very precious to be able to bring our hearts and awareness together

and attend to what's going on within us in our world.

And one of the questions I've been asked a lot lately has to do with how to handle our

anger. And in general, the more we're stressed, the more likely anger will be playing out.

It's just one of our survival stress reactions. And here we are. And we're in a very traumatized

society with huge anger and rage that's circling around our core wound of racial violence,

circling around the inequities between the races, between classes, extreme political

dividedness, bitterness, anger. And I've had many people share with me about the fault

lines that the stress is producing in the anger in our personal relationships.

So it's important to honor that anger is this hugely powerful, primal energy. And it's

one that can cause horrific suffering. And it's also a force that can serve radical

and healing transformation. So this is what our talk will be about tonight. Really,

how do we meet anger with awareness?

And you can begin, as you know, we'll be doing a practice as part of this and sensing where

this is relevant and meaningful to you. But I'll start by sharing a friend of mine who's

been at protests in DC most days. He's a black man in his mid fifties. And he was telling

me last week about how much he loves the energy of the young people that are showing up.

And he says, he told me their anger and outrage and injustice, their passion, their vitality.

But then he also started talking about how it's the older ones at the protests like him.

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