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As I've said on some previous evenings, I appreciate the opportunity first just to sit together

and to create a community of people who value the inner life and value silence and stopping

and listening, especially such busy times, and I also value for myself the opportunity

to speak because it's a way of reminding myself of things that I like to hear about.

And you kind of sit in and get to over-listen, it's true.

I don't always know what's going to come out, so I want to talk a little bit tonight about

goodness and faith, maybe picking up a bit on what we spoke of last week, speaking

Christian worthy, and if you remember that, also the talk focused somewhat on the value

and purpose of living more mindfully or fully in the moment.

When I was back on the East Coast, I visited the first large piece of goda that had been

built in this country.

It was just built two years ago on a hill in Leveritt in Western Massachusetts near Amherst

by the Michiren Shoshu Japanese Buddhist, the Pureland Buddhist, who go around the world

beating the drum and marching from city to city, and speaking about peace.

Very beautiful people, headed by a man who died a year or so ago at age 102, named Fuji

Guruji, I think was his short name.

There was a long Japanese name, he's named for Fuji Guruji, and he walked everywhere beating

his drum and talking about peace.

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