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Welcome back. I was just having the vision of so many people being together in our beautiful Dharma Hall at Spirit Rock.

And now we have this imagined and vision magnificent Dharma Hall in our hearts, even though we can't be together embodied in that way.

We can still be together connected somehow in the teachings, in mindfulness and compassion.

We can be together somehow in our listening and our caring. So welcome back.

Tonight I'd like to talk about seeing the world with the eyes of wisdom, or maybe seeing the world with the heart of wisdom.

The Buddhist texts begin in some verses with the phrase, oh, nobly born, of you who are the sons and daughters of the awakened ones, of the Buddhist remember who you really are.

And this talk is a reminder of this for you. Wisdom stories some I've told before that I love some new ones.

All of them pointing to this amazing human capacity to be awake. Wisdom with perspective, spaciousness, understanding, steadiness, responsiveness, tenderness, humor.

Ease. The eyes of wisdom to see the world as it is with a graciousness and an understanding of full presence to both enter the world and yet.

As Mary Oliver, the great poet says, to live in this world you must do three things. Love what is mortal. Hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it.

And when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

And in other lines she writes, for years and years I struggled just to love my life.

And then the butterflies spoke, don't love your life too much as she rose weightless in the wind.

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