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Over the past weeks, since the terrorist attack in New York,

as I said, there have been a lot of people coming here to Spirit Rock.

And I think for all of us or for many of us, there's just a deep pull to sanctuary, to find places that feel peaceful and for community when things are so volatile and

so difficult to be able to find a way to connect with one another.

So we've had a series of both vigils and councils and circles where people could really speak from the wisdom

and the understanding that they have and that we could hear one another in addressing what is both painful and

frightening and difficult. The phrase that begins many of the Buddhist texts is these words,

O nobly born, oh you who are the sons and daughters of the Buddha,

do not forget who you really are.

Do not forget your birthright, your true nature.

In some way to come into sanctuary or to come to meditate together, to come as we have just now to sit, is simply to quiet ourselves enough to remember the values of the heart that we hold most dear,

to get in touch with that place of wisdom in ourselves.

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