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When I ring the bell, I realized I missed bringing that great big bell at Spirit Rock on Monday night.

It calls everybody together. It's one of my favorite things to hit that huge bowl bell and have it resonate for so many people.

I invite you to listen not so much to be taught. Spare you that.

But it best to be reminded of something that you already know or to reflect in some way on what matters.

And reflect on what are the teachings of wisdom or understanding that can help us, especially in this kind of wild time.

I mean, here we are, post-election or semi-post-election it looks like. And I have this feeling it's like a Greek play.

I can't tell whether it's a comedy or a tragedy and there's, you know, the Greek chorus singing in the wings and all of the different social media kind of adding their voices to it.

And for some, it looks like it's playing out like Elizabeth Kubler Ross described with denial, anger and bargaining, all of that going on, you know, wherever you are.

It's a really confusing time. But it's all confusing. And it's all made of these paradoxes that aren't easily solved.

You know, here we are in our politics. Are we supposed to be taking care of ourselves? Should we leave the international world? Should we interact with it more fully and take care of it?

Here we are, you know, social beings. But if you are among the 50 million people who watch that movie, the social dilemma that talked about the problems with technology, we have the blessings of Zoom and all the great things from technology and all the problems that it creates for teenage girls looking at their body through the magnifying toxic influence of the, you know, social media or the mistuse of it politically.

And then we have our families, you know, which are our source of both joy and blessing and trouble. As you know, since Jesus and Buddha had trouble with their families, you know, it's just part of being human.

And that's how it is. Love and difficulty. And then maybe you're creative and you're an artist, but, you know, is it a society that even supports artists? What's your role?

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