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Before starting this talk and before starting most talks, I do a brief prayer.

And it's usually something in the nature of may this service all waking up together.

And if I take some time with that prayer, if I say it enough until I get really sincere,

something falls away and there's a sense of really being part of something larger together

with everyone.

I feel more intimate as we're here.

And this is a lead into exploring tonight the nature of prayer and what we might call

really spiritually transformational prayer, mature prayer, mindful prayer.

Pick your favorite term.

And what's interesting to me as starters is that many people don't think that prayer has

anything to do with Buddhism.

And there are many people that would identify themselves as Buddhists and say prayer, well,

isn't that really dualistic?

And aren't you thinking you're you're supplicating some other being out there and you know, it's

who's praying anyway if there's no self and all that stuff.

And so I just want to even start by saying prayer is part of every spiritual path, religious

path and beyond.

It's actually a universal part of being human.

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