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dot com slash Joseph. The question that I would like to reflect on and consider this evening is how we can manifest our intentions of goodwill and

loving kindness in our relationships, in our work environment, in our lives in the world

in our lives in the world.

How can we connect what we're doing here with how we actually live?

Recollecting our aspiration to practice for the benefit of all beings.

And repeating the phrases of loving kindness.

Bear tremendous fruit.

These are very powerful seeds.

And Susan's image of the garden list

the other evening was beautiful.

It's really planting these seeds and it bears great fruit. But it's also

not enough because to use a little slang language we need to walk the talk.

It's not enough just to sit here and have these loving wishes in our mind, we need to express these intentions in our actions.

That's where the real meaning will lie.

So in one verse of the Buddha, it's a verse of the Damapada, which is a collection, a famous collection in verse form of some of his teachings.

He summed up in this one verse how action, love, compassion, and wisdom really are all expressions of each other, how they

interact, how they support each other.

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