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So thank you for being here, being with us.

I recently received an email, a very caring dedicated woman who's in our meditation teacher

training program.

She lives in Europe close to Ukraine and really close right close into the heart, to the

violence that is unfolding with over a million refugees from the war.

And she wanted guidance, you know, how do we hold such a huge collective suffering?

You know, how do we hold the emotions of fear and anger and in our hearts and how do

we respond in a healing way?

And I've been in touch with so many expressing grief and despair and outrage and fear.

And of course, it's not towards the Russian people.

I was struck by one video of a young man who had been taken prisoner in Ukraine and he was

talking to his mother who was in Russia and they were both weeping.

He hadn't known he was going to war.

So there's the horrors of violence and of course it's happening around the globe, the genocide

of the Rohingya and Myanmar and the war in South Sudan, wars in Colombia, Syria and beyond,

just all over.

And you know, while violence against others has been this basic weave in our history,

in the history of our species, it's heartbreaking to have to keep reckoning with what we're capable

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