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Those of you who are listening that aren't here in Washington, DC, tonight's pretty wild

storm, torrential rains, winds, and so on, and I knew I was coming in to give a talk on

Bodicita, which is the awakening heart.

And yet there I was at home and my dog Katie was just shivering with terror at the thunder.

And I thought, how can I go in and talk about and await card and leave this poor puppy?

So Katie is for the very first time on a Wednesday night here to listen to the Dharma talk or

else to be out back somewhere, tugging someone around.

And I thought in her honor, I'd start with a story.

Some of you might remember it's one of my favorite dog stories.

A woman describes that a tired elderly dog came into her yard and then she could tell it

from its collar, it was owned by somebody, it was well fed, but didn't have a tag on

it.

Followed her into the house and it walked down the hall and just lay down on her couch

and it fell asleep for about an hour, got up and then it left.

Well, it happened the next day too.

The dog came back, came in, slept on her couch for an hour and left and when it had gone

on for a couple of weeks, she finally got curious and she pinned a note to the dog's collar.

And on the note, she wrote, every afternoon your dog comes here for a nap.

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