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My own practice these days has been involved with a wrestling somehow, with the Terevada

tradition, as I was trained in the monasteries and centers in Thailand and Burma and India,

and the wonderful things that I've learned in practice, a wrestling somehow with a way

to make that practice real and meaningful and alive in our culture and our time, to make

it heartful for people to connect it with our lives in a full way.

And I find that doubly compelling now that I'm living as a householder in the fullest

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