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So the title for today's reflection together is awakening trust in a fractured world.

And I thought I'd start with a 12th century old prophecy.

It's from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and Joanna Macy, beloved teacher of many who

recently passed, she's shared this often. And so I'm going to do that now. It's an adapted

version. And as Joanna says, listen as if it's addressed to you because it is.

And the title again, Shambala warrior prophecy, the Shambala warriors are bodhisattvas,

awakening beings, they're us.

Okay, here goes.

There comes a time when the world is in existential peril and great forces of greed, hatred,

and delusion rise up, threatening the very web of life.

The air becomes toxic, the water's poison, the soil is dying, the people divided by chasms

of fear, mistrust, and hostility.

The future hangs by a threat.

In this time, many fall into despair or denial,

but from all corners of the earth, the Shambala warriors,

the bodhisattvas, begin to arise, not as soldiers with weapons, but as humans of heart of awareness.

These bodhisattvas are everyday people who feel the suffering of the world and choose not to turn away.

The Shambala warrior's task is to enter into the very core of systems that perpetuate harm.

Yes, the institutions, the halls of power, but most fundamentally, the delusional stories, the habits of heart and mind that separate us,

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