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So I'm very happy to be here back in Yaka Valley for the 37th year.

Kind of amazing.

And this morning I want to continue the collective conversation on what they call in Zen, the

great matter, which is death and identity and the heavenly messengers.

How many of you have sat with the dying hospice or in other ways.

How many haven't where that's yet ahead for you?

It will happen, good, and it's important

and moving and special.

How many of you, well I have to give a little context for this, I helped

to organize a big meeting of 230 Buddhist teachers a couple of years ago on the East Coast and we were polling the

teachers in various fashions about their understanding their problems and so forth.

And then we ask in really honest ways,

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