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I feel actually quite blessed, I'm teaching meditation is a good job, it is.

You get to be with people at their best or at least not at their worst because they're

quiet.

It's true, and they ask about things that generally matter to them a lot, it's wonderful.

I'd like to try and put a couple of things together this evening that I've been thinking about,

and they are a bit disparate, so I'm not sure how they'll fit, but I'll give it a try.

And I believe they even relate in some way to what we've talked about the past couple

of weeks.

And if they don't, then I'll rewrite the talk and we'll try some other week again.

They have to do with inner meditation and outer child rearing, somehow guiding the children

in our life, outwardly and inwardly.

Last week, someone came up to me afterwards who would sat there and said that they were

a bit confused from what we talked about, that there was a kind of a mixed message that

in one way, in Buddhist practice and meditation, as we've been working with it for a long

time, those who've been coming regularly, the main teachings are to let go, not to make

anything or become anything, but really to learn how to let go in a graceful way from

day to day and person to person and moment to moment and maybe even life to life.

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